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GENERAL  ORDERS 


ADJUTANT  m  IXSPECTOR-fiEXEllAl'S  OFFICE, 

CONFEDERATE  STATES  ARMY, 

From  January,  1862,  to  December,  1863, 

(both  INCT.UWVI!.) 

IN    TWO    SERIES. 


PREPARED  FROM  FIXES  OF  HEAD-QFARTRRS,  DEPARTMENT  OF 
S.  C,  aA.,  AND  FLA. 


WITH  FULL  INDEXES. 


COLUMBIA: 

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HEAD-QUARTERS,  DEP'T  OF  S.  C,  GA.,  AND  FLA., 
Chahlkstox,  S.  C.>  March  1,  1864. 

Messrs.  Etans  A  Cooswell,  in  the  snme  spirit  which  led  them  to 
nndertake  the  publication  of  the  Genernl  Orders  of  the  War  depart- 
ment for  1862,  hare  now  become  the  publishers  of  an  edition,  in  one 
volume,  embracing  the  Orders  of  1862  and  '6.3,  together  with  such 
decisions  of  the  War  department  as  could  be  collected  touching 
matters  of  general  concern  to  the  service,  and  recent  speci.il  regula- 
tions of  the  Ordnance  bureau.  There  will  also  be  found  appended 
certain  Orders  of  the  present  (1864)  series,  not  embraced  in  the 
index,  which  are  of  immediate  importance  to  the  army.  The  Index 
of  this  edition  for  the  series  of  1862  will  be  found  materially  en- 
larged and  improved. 

THOMAS  JORDAN, 
Brigadier-General,  and  Chief  of  Staff. 


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SERIES  1862. 


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ANALYTICAL   IITDEX 

TO 

General  (Bnlm  from  Wi^ir  gcpartment, 

For  the  Year  1862. 


Ko.    No  . 

ABSENTEES.  vL  Ort. 

When  otlicers,  absent  over  twenty  days  without  authority," 

to  be  dropped,  and  enrolled  as  conscripts II     98 

If  enlisted  men,  to  bo  treated  as  deserters II     96 

ACTS  OF  CONGRESS. 

Granting  bounties  and  furloughs  to  enlisted  men.     Decem- 
ber 11,  1861 I       1 

Sec.  1.  Bounty  of  $50  to  enlisted  men  serving  continu- 
ously for  three  years;  at  what  times  paid. 
Sec.  2.  Granting  furloughs  to  twelve  months  men  re- 
enlisting  for  three  years  or  the  war ;  when  granted; 
regulating  length  of  furlough;  in  lieu  of,  may  receive 
commutation  value  of  transportation  home  and  back. 
Sec.  3.  This  act  applies  to  all  twelve  months  men  en- 
listed and  now  in  service  of  any  state,  and  who  may 
hereafter  volunteer  in  service  of  Confederate  States. 
Sec.  4.  Authorizing  re-enlisted  men  to  reorganize  in 
companies,  battalions,  aaid  regiments,  and  elect  offi- 
cers. After  first  election  vacancies  to  be  filled  by 
promotion,  except  in  lowest  grade  of  company  offi- 
cers. In  cases  of  troops  regularly  enlisted  into  ser- 
vice of  anj'  particular  state  prior  to  formation  of 
Confederacy,  olficers  appointed  as  they  were  hereto- 
fore     I       1 

Securing  bounty  to  heirs  of  deceased  soldiers,  etc.     Oct.  11.    I     93 
For  recruiting  service  Provisional  army.     Dec.  19,  1861. .. .    I  2,  6 


i  INDEX. 

Sec.  1.     Secretary  of  War  to  adopt  necessary  measures. 
Sec.  2.     Secretary  of  War  authorized  to  detail  company 

officers  for  above  duty. 
Sec.  .3.     Provides  far  filling  vacancies  in  war  companies 
by  volunteers. 
Officers  for  recruiting  service,  how  detailed. 
Limiting  number  enlisted  men  in  each  company.     Recruits 
when  mustered  entitled  to  transportation,  subsistence,  and 

bounty I  2,  6 

To  provide  for  recruiting  companies  in  service  for  twelve 

months.     Jan.  27,  1862 I       6 

Sec.  1.  Provides  for  recruiting  twelve  months  compa- 
nies to  125,  rank  and  file.  At  expiration  of  term  of 
service  commissioned  officers  to  be  elected;  subse- 
quent vacancies  to  be  filled  by  promotion,  except,  etc. 
Sec.  2.  Commanding  officers  of  regiments,  battalions, 
etc.,  of  twelve  months  men,  to  detail  one  officer  and 
two  privates  from  each  company  to  recruit.  Officers 
and  men  detailed  entitled  to  transportation ;  recruits 
entitled  to  pay  and  subsistence  from  time  of  enlist- 
ment, and  bounty  on  joining  company. 
Sec.  3.  Regiments,  battalions,  companies,  etc.,  reorgan- 
ized before  expiration  of  original  term  of  service,  may 
retain  old  designations.  (Companies  reorganizing 
may  remain  as  at  first,  or  combine  in  new  organiza- 
tions, electing  field  officers;  vacancies  occurring  to 
be  filled  by  seniority. 
Sec.    4.      Companies    organized   by   rc-enlisted    twelve 

months  volunteers  may  be  recruited  to  125. 
Sec.  5.     If,  at  expiration  of  term  of  service,  recruits  and 
enlisted  men  do  not  amount  to  minimum  for  company, 
may  combine  with  other  companies  to  form  new  or- 
ganizations. 
See.  6.     Secretary  of  War  to  make  necessary  rules,  etc.  I       6 

To  organize  Maryland  line.     Feb.  15,  1862 I       8 

Sec.  1.  Citizens  of  Maryland  now  in  service,  or  who 
may  hereafter  volunteer,  may  be  organized  and  en- 
rolled into  companies,  etc.,  and,  with  other  Maryland 
organizations  now  in  service,  be  formed  into  brigades 

to  bo  known  as  " Maryland  line." I       8 

To  establish  uniform  rule  of  naturalization.     Aug.  22,  J8G2.  I     13 
Sue.  1.     Guarantees  protection  to  all  persons  in  military 
service  who  are  not  citizens;  provides  for  their  natu- 
•     riiliz:iti(jn  ;  form  of  oath  of  allegiance. 


INDEX.  IX 

.^ec.  2.     Designates  persons  before  wliom  ontli  may  be 
made. 
Secretary  of  War  to  provide  blank  forms,  and  make  neces- 
sary regulations  to  file  for  record  in  District  Court,  Con- 
federate States,  all  oaths I     13 

To  organize  partisan  rangcr.«.     April  21,  1862. 

/SVc.  1.  Authorizes  President  to  commission  officers  to 
form  bands  of  partisans  in  companies,  regiments,  and 
either  cavalry  or  infantry. 
See.  2.  After  being  received  into  service,  entitled  to 
same  pay  and  allowances,  and  subject  to  same  regu- 
lations, as  other  soldiers. 
See.  3.     Provides  for  payment  of  arms  and  munitions 

captured  by  partisan  rangers I     30 

First  Conscript  act.     April  16 1  30,82 

<S'«c.  1.  All  persons  between  18  and  35,  who  are  not  le- 
gally exempt,  to  serve  three  years  or  the  war.  All 
twelve  months  volunteers  within  these  ag«3  to  serve 
two  years  from  expiration  of  their  term  of  enlistment. 
All  corps  twelve  months  men  hav*  right  to  reorgan- 
ize by  electing  officers.  Furloughs  to  be  granted  to 
twelve  months  men  retained  in  service,  or,  in  lieu, 
commutation  of  transportation  may  be  received.  All 
persons  under  18  and  over  36  now  in  service  for  twelve 
mo  ntbs,  to  remain  ninety  days  after  e.\piration  of 
term,  unless  places  are  sooner  sujiplied  by  recruits. 
Sec.  2.  All  authority  to  raise  new  companies  is  vacated, 
unless  within  thirty  days  f¥om  passage  of  this  act  the 
organization  is  complete,  and  has  required  number  of 
recruits  from  persons  not  now  in  service. 
Sec.  3.  Provides  for  enrolment  of  all  persons  compre- 
hended within  provisions  of  this  act. 
Sec.  4.  Persons  enrolled  to  be  assigned  by  Secretary  of 
War  to  companies  from  respective  states  that  are  be- 
low maximum. 
Sec.  5.     Provides  for  transfer  of  si  amen  and  ordinary 

seamen  to  navy. 
Sec.  6.  Excess  over  and  above  amount  necessary  to  fill 
regiments  from  any  state  kept  as  a  reserve  to  be 
drawn  from  when  required  to  fill  vacancies  in  existing 
organizations.  Keserve  may  be  called  out  by  Presi- 
dent. 
Sec.  7.  Graut.s  bounty  to  soKlit-rs  noxv^in  uriiiy  wiio  are 
continued  in  service. 


INDEX,. 

Sec.  8.     Provides  for  paymoat  of  approved  weapons  in 

hands  of  and  belonging  to  soldiers. 
Sea.  9.     Persons  not  liable  for  duty  may  be  received  as 

substitutes. 
Sec.  10.     Provides  manner  of  filling  vacancies  among 

officers. 
Sec.  11.     Provisions  of  first  section  of  this  act  relating 
to   election   of    ofiicers,    applies    to    organization    of 
twelve  months  men  and  war  companies  combined. 
Sec.  12.     Fixing  standard  of  different  arms  of  service.   I     30 
Sec.  13.     Persons  subject  to  conscription  may  volunteer 

previous  to  enrolment •  I     82 

Second  Conscript  act,  amending  first.  Sept.  27,  1862. . .  .1  82,  93 
Authorizes  President  to  call  out  for  war  white  residents 
between  ages  of  35  and  45  not  legally  exempt,  to  be  first 
assigned  to  existing  organizations  from  respective  states. 
Surplus,  if  any,  how  disposed  of.  Execution  of  act  may 
be  suspended  in  certain  places.  Whore  suspended,  troops 
may  be  received  underacts  passed  prior  to  passage  of  this 

act I  82,93 

To  amend  second  Conscript  act.      Oct.  8,  1862 I     82 

Persons  subject  to  military  service  may  be  enrolled  wherffv- 
er  found.  The  act  not  to  extend  to  members  of  state 
military  organizations  serving  without  limits  respective 
states.     President  may  suspend  execution  of  this  act  in 

certain  localities ^ I     82 

To  establish  places  of  rendezvous  for  the  examination  of 

conscripts.     Oct.  11,  1862..  ;• I     82 

Sec.  1.  Places  of  rendezvous  established  in  each  state 
for  examination  of  conscripts  by  surgeons  to  be  as- 
signed to  that  duty  by  President.  Decisions  of  sur- 
geons as  to  mental  and  physical  capacity  of  con- 
scripts to  be  final.  Conscripts  thus  ascertained  fit  for 
service  to  assemble  at  camps  of  instruction. 
Sec.  2.     Constituting  boards  of  examination  for  each 

congressional  district. 
Sec.  3.     Conscripts  unable  to  attend  place  of  rendezvous 
from  sickness  must  forward  certificate  of  physician, 

or  be  held  liable  as  absent  without  leave I     82 

To  establish  camps  of  instruction.     Oct.  8,  1802. 
President  authorized  to  establish   camps  of  instruction  in 
such  places  and  numbers  as  may  be  necessary,  and  to  ap- 
point officers  to  command  the  same I     93 


INDEX.  Xi 

To  provide  for  raising  additional  military  forces  in  Statee  of 

Kentucky  and  Missouri.     Oct.  11,  1862 I     93 

To  e.Tempt  certain  persons  from  enrolment.     April  21,  1862. 

{See  Exemption.) t  go  37 

To  exempt  certain  persons  from  military  duty,  and  repeal- 
ing Exemption  act  of  April  21.     Oct.  11 I     82 

To  organize  batUlions  of  sharp-shooters.      April  21,  1862. .   I     34 
Sec.  1.     One  battalion  for  each  brigade,  consisting  of 
not  less  than   throe  nor  moro  than  six  companies; 
composed  of  men  selected  from  brigade;  how  armed; 
oflicers  appointed  by  President. 
Sec.   2.     Prov^ides  manner  of  arming  sharp-shooters.. .    I     34 

To  punish  drunkenness  in  army.     April  21,  1862 I     33 

^'ec.  1,  Provides  for  punishment  of  any  officer  on  con- 
viction before  general  court  martial. 
Sec.  2.  Duty  of  officers  to  report  all  cases  of  drttnken- 
ness  coming  under  their  notice.  Commanding  offi- 
cers to  organize  court  for  trial  of  offenders. 
Sea.  3.  Findings  of  court  shall  be  properly  transmit- 
ted to  Secretary  of  War  to  be  reported  to  Congress 

at  next  session  by  said  Secretary I     33 

To  organize  signal  corps.     April  19,  1SG2 I     40 

Sec.  1.  President  authorized  to  appoint  ten  (10)  officers 
in  Provisional  army  for  duty  in  signal  corps.  Fixing 
rank  and  pay.  Also  to  appoint  ten  sergeants  of  in- 
fantry to  be  assigned  to  signal  duty.  Corps  to  be  at- 
tached to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector- General's  de- 
partment or  Engineer  department I     40 

To  permit  enlistments  in  navy  and  marine  corps.     Oct    2 

1862 .'l     89 

Sec.  1.     Persons  subject  to  enrolment  may  enlist  in  ma- 
rine corps  prior  to  being  mustered  in  army. 
Sec.  2.     Persons  enrolled  in  army  m.xy,  previous  to  being 

assigned  to  any  company,  be  enrolled  in  navy. 
Sec.  3.     Increases  pay  of  sailors  and  marines  four  dol- 
lars per  month , ^^^    J     gg 

To  increase  signal  corps.     Sept.  27,  1862. 
Authorizing  appointment  of   additional   officers   and   ser- 
geants  J       gj 

To  organize  army  corps  to  be  commanded  by  lieutenant- 
generals;  how  appointed ;  fixing  pay.     Sept.  18,  1862...   I     «3 
To  provide  for  organization  of  army  corps.     Oct.  6,  1862. . .   I     93 
Authorizing  additional  officers  for  ordnance.     Sept.  16, 1862. 


INDEX. 

President  to  appoint  seventy  officers  of  artillery  iu  Provis- 
ional army,  fixing  duties,  regulating  rank I     93 

Authorizing  transfers  of  enlisted  men  in  regiments  not  from 
own  state,  provided  applicant  is  not  a  substitute.     Sept. 

23,1862 I     93 

Allowing  transportation  to  persons  transferred  under  above 

act.     Oct.2 I     93 

To  regulate  ruuk  of  engineer  officers  Provisional  army  Con- 
federate IS  Utes.     Sept.  23,  18{)2 I     93 

May  have  rank  during  war  equiil  to  tkat  authorized  for  en- 
gineer corps  Confederate  States  army,  limiting  number  in 

each  grade I     93 

To  provide  for  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals.     Sept.  27, 

1862 I     93 

Sec.  1.  Fixing  commutation  value  of  rations  in  hos- 
pitals to  constitute  hospital  fund  to  be  hold  by 
commissary;  how  disposed  of;  if  fund  exceed  cer- 
tain amount,  excess  to  bo  paid  to  Confederate  States 
Treasury;  how  accounted  for;  medical  officers  held 
accountable  for  faithful  npi)lication  of  fund,  and  to 
forward  weekly  abstract  and  vouchers  to  Surgeon- 
General,  showing  disposition  made  of  fund. 
See.  2.  Secretary  of  War  to  contract  with  railroad  com- 
panies and  boats  for  speedy  transportation  of  sup- 
plies for  hospitals. 
Sec.  3.     Allowing  clothing  to  hospitals;    how  drawn; 

how  kept,  and  how  accounted  for. 
Sec.  4:     Allowing  matrons,  female  nurses,  and  attend- 
ants; fixing  salary  and  duties;  authorizing  medicaL 
officers  in  charge  of  hospitals  to  employ  other  nurses 
that    may  be  necessary,  also  cooks;  soldiers  may  be 
permanently  detailed  as  nurses,  etc. 
Sec.  5.     Provides  that  hospitals  of  Confederate  States 
shall  be  known  and  numbered  as  hospitals  of  .a  par- 
ticular state. 
Sec.  6.     Persons  employed  in  hospitals  not  in  military 
service,  and  whose  pay  is  not  provided  for  by  law, 
how  and  by  whom  paid. 
Sec.  1.     Directing  Secretary  of  War  to  arrange  with 
railroad  companies  for  transportation   of    sick  and 
wounded  soldiers  in  separate  cars,  and  to  have  cars 
provided  with  pure  water. 
Sec.  8.     Medical  officers  in  charge  of  hospitals  to  detail 


INDEX.  xni 

competent  person  to    accompany  sick  and, wounded 
soldiers    to  depots,  to  obtain  scats  on  cars  for  snid 

eoldiers I     93 

Authorizing  appointment  of  adjutants  to  battalions  on  rec- 
ommendation battalion  commander;  how  appointed;  fix- 
ing rank,  pay,  nnd  allowances.     Oct.  2,  1862 I     9.3 

Authorizing  a  colonel  in    Adjutant  -  Gcneral'a   department 

Confederate  States  army.     Oct.  8,  1862 I     9.S 

To  increase  and  regulate  appointment  of  general  officers. 

Oct.  13,  1862. 
President  authorized  to  appoint  twenty  general  officers,  etc.   I     9.3 
Allowing  officers  to  bo  appointed  during  recess  of  Senate. 

Oct.  13,  1862. 
If  not  confirmed  at  next  session  of  Senate,  appointments  to 

expire I     93 

Authorizing  acceptance  of  certain  regiments  and  battalions. 

Oct.  11,  1862 I     93 

Sec.  1.  President  may  accept  regiments  or  battalions 
organized  in  good  faith  prior  to  Oct  1, 1862,  although 
composed  of  persons  between  eighteen  and  thirty-five 
years  of  age. 
Sec.  2.  President  may  accept  certain  regiments  or 
battalions  organized  in  states  west  of  Mississippi 
riTcr. 
Sec.  3.  Aitthorizing  acceptance  of  companies,  battal- 
ions, or  regiments  organised  before  Dec.  1,  1862,  of 
residents  within  limits  of  Middle  and  West  Tennessee, 
and  certain  counties  in  North  Carolina;  officers,  how 

elected,  aud  vacancies,  how  filled I     93 

To  authorize  formation  of  volunteer  companies  for  lo«al  de- 
fence.    Oct.  13,  1862 I     93 

Seo.  1.  Any  number  of  persons  not  loss  than  twenty, 
not  liable  to  military  service,  may  form  company, 
elect  officers,  etc.,  serving  without  pay,  etc.,  and  en- 
titled, when  captured,  to  treatment  as  prisoners  of 
war ;  muster-roll  to  be  forNvardcd  to  Secretary  of 
War ;  members  to  take  oath  of  allegiance  to  Confeder- 
I'.te  States ;    may  be  disbanded  by  President  or  com- 

mnnder  of  military  department I     93 

To  amend  an  act  authorizing  payment  to  be  made  for  cer- 
tain horses.     Sept.  .30,  1862 I    93 

Aulfcorizinir  coDstmctioa  of  railread  between  Blue  Moun- 


INDEX. 

tain,  in  State  of  Alabama,  and  Komc,  in  State  of  Georgia. 

Oct.  2,  1862 I    93 

Authoriz.ing  quartermasters  and  others  to  administer  oaths 
to   enable  sick  or  wounded  soldiers  to  receive  their  pay. 

Oct,  2,  1862 I    93 

To  provide  for  prompt  settlement  of  accounts  of  deceased 

soldiers.     Oct.  3,  1862 ...I     93 

Sec.  1.     Claims  due  deceased  soldiers  may  be  paid  with- 
out production  of  pay-roll. 
Sec.  2.     Provides  manner  of  settling  with  heirs  of  de- 
ceased soldiers. 
Sec.  Z.     Authorizing  Secretary  of  Treasury  to  employ 
additional  clerks  to  assist  auditor  fixing  compensation. 
Sec.  4.     This  act  to  take  efi^ect  from  passage,  and  third 

section  to  continue  in  force  twelve  months I     93 

Repealing  law  authorizing  commutation  of  clothing.     Oct. 

8,  1862. 
Secretary  of  "War  to  furnish  clothing  in  kind,  prescribed  by 

regulations,  etc I  100,  I     93 

To  provide  shoes  for  the  army.     Oct.  9,  1862 I    93 

Sec.  1.  Authorizing  President,  on  requisition  of  Quar- 
termaster-General, to  detail  from  army  not  to  exceed 
two  thousand  shoemakers. 

Sec.  2.     Fixing  pay  of  men  thus  detailed I     9S 

To  organise  military  courts.     Oct.  9,  1862 I     93 

^e«.  1.     Court  to  consist  of  three  members  and  judge 
advocate — two  constituting   a  quorum  ;    fixing  rank 
and  pay  ;  how  appointed;  duties  of  judge  advocate; 
in  case  of  absence  of  judge  advocate,  etc. 
Sec.  2.     Coun  to  appoint  provost  marshal,  with  rank  and 
pay  of  captain  cavalry;  also  a  clerk;  fixing  salary 
and  duties;  oflicers  and   members    of  court  to    take 
oath,  etc. ;  by  whom  administered. 
Sec.  3.     Defining  powers  of  military  court. 
Sec.  4.     Defining  jurisdiction    of    court ;    oflicers,  how 

punished. 
Sec.  5.  Courts  to  attend  army,  and  have  appropriate 
quarters;  final  decisions  and  sentences  subject  to  re- 
view ;  mitigation  and  suspension  as  in  cases  of  courts 
martial. 
Sec.  6.  During  recess  of  Senate,  President  may  appoint 
members  of  court  and  judge  advocate I    93 


INDEX.  XV 

Making  pnj  of  cadets  equal  to  pay  of  second  lieutenant  of 

same  arm.     Oct.  IS,  1862 I     93 

To  relieve  army  of  incapable  officers,  etc.     Oct  13,  1862 I     9.3 

Sec.  1.     Authorizing  department  comm.nnder  to  organ- 
ize boards  to  examine  into  cases  of  officers  brought  to 
their  attention,  to  determine  their  qualifications,  etc. 
Sec.  2.     When  officers  declared  unfit  to  perform  duties, 

may  be  Fuspended  by  department  commander;  pro-  ' 
ceedings  of  board   to   be  forwarded  to  Secretary  of 
War. 
Sec.  .3.     If  findings  of  board  approved  by  Secretary  of 
•                  War,  President  may  retire  honorably,  without   pay, 
etc.,  or  drop  from  itimy  the  officer  unfit. 
Sec.  4.     Tabular  report  to  be  made  by  brigadier-gener- 
al, giving  number  of  days  each  officer  absent,  etc. 
Sec.  5.     Provides  for  filling  vacancies   caused  by   offi- 
cers dropped  under  this  act I     93 

Granting  medals  and  badges  of  distinction.  Oct.  1.3,  1862. 
(Sco  Budget.) j     93 

ADJUTANTS. 

To  report  to  AVar  department  all  ca^cs  of  slaves  serving 
with  regiments  without  proper  written  authority I     69 

Commissions  of,  expire  if,  at  reorganization,  commanding 
ofliccr  is  not  re-elected V     82 

May  be  appointed  for  independent  battalions I     93 

ALLEGIANCE. 

Form  of  oath  of,  for  aliens  in  military  service,  wishing  to 
become  naturalized II     13 

Oaths  of,  to  the  United  States,  will  not  exempt  from  conscrip- 
*'0° II     62 

Persons  having  taken  oaths  of  to  United  States,  and  after- 
ward conscribed,  will,  if  captured,  be  demanded  as  pris- 
oners of  war , V     64 

Oaths  of,  to  Confederate  States,  must  be  taken  by  members 
of  companies  organized  for  local  defence I    93 

APPLICANTS. 

For  appointments  in  ordnance  corps,  in  what  examined  . .  .IV    70 
For  furloughs,  discharges,  etc.,  in  and   .about  Richmond, 

to  address  Major-General  Smith II    70 

For  appointments  in  ordnance  corps,  will  present  themselves 

for  examination I    71 


XVI  INDEX. 

For  examination  in  ordnance,  to  address  commanding  gen- 
eral of  particular  army Ill     80 

For  furlougli  or  discharge  by  medical  board,  to  explain  cause 

of  absence  from  proper  command V     72 

For  transfer  to  navy,  to  forward  applications  through  supe- 
rior oflicers ••••  I     77 

APPOINTMENTS  OF  OFFICERS. 

Authorizing   lieutenant-generals   to  command    army  corps ; 

fixingpay.     Sept.  18,  1862 I     93 

ARMS. 

None  but  authorized,  to  be  worn  by  rank  and  file. I  17 

Requisition    for,  must  certify  condemnation    of  former  is- 
sues  II  17 

Belonging  to  states,  not  to  be  seized  by  Confederate  officers.  VI  50 

Not  to  be  taken  from  camp,  except  on  duty II  1G4 

Captured  from  enemy  by  partisan  rangers  to  be  paid  for. . .   I  30 

When  furnished  by  men  to  be  paid  for.     {Sec.  9) I  30 

Not  to  be  diverted  from  legitimate  destination  by  any  officer  .VI  60 

Schedule  of  average  cost  of II  78 

ARMY  CORPS. 

Authorized  to  bo  formed I     93 

Lieutenant-generals  may  command I     93 

Each  to  have  attached  one  military  court I     93 

Commanders  of,  to  make  monthly  returns  to  War  depart- 
ment  IV    64 

ARTILLERY. 

Establishing  organization  of  light II     81 

ASSIGNMENTS  TO  DUTY. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  George  Deas,  as  Acting  Assistant  Secre- 
tary of  War IV    77 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Smith  Stansbury,  Ordnance  Examining 

board IV  107 

Lieutenant-Colonel  W.  Leroy  Broun,  Ordnance  Examining 

board Ill     80 

General  R.  E.  Lee,  as  commander-in-chief .  14 

Of  members  of  military  courts I  109 

Colonel  Wm.  M.  Wadley  to  take  supervision  aaid  control  of 

railroad  transportation,  etc 98 

Major  A.  H.  Cole,  inspector-genci-al  of  field  transportation.         76 
Major-General  Ilugei',  inspector  of  ordnance  and  artillery 

for  Confederate  States  army I     62 


INDEX.  xvn 

BADGES. 

Medals  to  be  bestowed  on  officers  distinguished I  93 

Of  distinction  conferred  on   one   soldier   of  each  company 

after  every  signal  victory  it  assists  to  aebiere. .1  93 

Soldier  entitled  to,  chosen  by  vote  of  company* .....  j  ; I  93 

If  soldier  entitled  to,  be  dead,  to^o  to  widow  or  other  rela- 
tive  ,   I  93 

BLANKS. 

Brigadier-generals  to  make  timely  reriuisitions  for VI     39 

BOARDS. 

To    examino   olTicers,    when  necessary  to    be  appointed  by 

department  commanders I     93 

Medical   examining,   to   appoint  days   for   examination    of 

conscripts I     82 

Medical  examining,  to  determine  question  of  exemption,  in 

case  physical  disability,  and  grant  certificates  therefor.  .VI     82 

Adjourned  meetings  of  ordnance,  to  be  held  convenient  to 

head-quarters  of  different  armies  in  field II     71 

Of  examination  for  ordnance,  to  consist  of  Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Broun  and  officers  associated  with  him  by  different 
commanding  generals Ill     80 

Medical,  to  be  established  at  each  post  or  general  hospital. IV     72 

Medical,  to  discharge  and  furlough  soldiers  on  approval  of 

senior  surgeon IV     72 

Of  examiners,  to  be  convened  by  brigade  commanders  for 
examination  of  promoted  and  newly-elected  officers II     36 

Of  examiners    for  promoted  and  elected  officers,  to   be   at 

least  equal  in  rank  to  officer  examined I     39 

Of  examiners  for  promoted  and  elected  officers,  to  be  assem- 
bled by  brigade  or  division  commanders I     39 

Of  ordnance,  convened  in  Richmond,  to  examine  applicants.   I     68 

Requisites  to  pass  ordnance I     68 

Lieutonant-Colonel  Smith  Stansbury  appointed  on  ordnance 

examining IV  107 

Notice  of  sessions  of  ordnance,  to  be  given  in  local  papers.  .IV  107 

Medical,  sessions  may  be  suspended  bj'  commanding  gen- 
eral   II  107 

BOUNTY. 

To  be  paid  soldier  or  heirs,  even  though  soldier  be  killed, 
honorably  discharged,  etc.,  before  expiration  of  first  year's 

service !• I     03 

B 


XVUl  INDEX. 

Of  fifty  dollars  to  be  paid  to  all  recruits I  6 

How  and  wben  paid I  6 

To  be  paid  to  twelve  months  men  continued  in  service I  82 

Officers  charged  with  disbursement  of,  to  render  accounts  at 

once  to  Quartermaster-General •.-. Ill  77 

Fifty  dollars  allowed  to  all  re-enlisted  men-.  •.■.-.. I  1 

How  and  when  paid -.■.■.i-,-. I  1 

Receipted  muster-roll  to  be  voucher  for  payment  of Ill  22 

Allowed  by  Conscript  act .■. I  30 

Ofliccrs  paying,  before  volunteer  is  mustered  or  examined 

by  army  surgeon,  to  refund  .».>. IV  43 

CADETS. 

To  report  to  AVar  department  where  born,  how  and  where 

appointed,  and  whether  appointed  to  West  Point,  etc. ...  I     65 
Pay  of,  same  as   second  lieutenant  of  same  arm I     93 

CAMPS. 

Of  instruction  may  be  established,  and    ofliccrs  appointed 

to  command I     93 

Near  towns,  etc.,  must  be  avoided,  when  practicable I  104 

Arms  must  not  be  taken  from,  except  on  duty II  104 

Horses  not  to  be  ridden  from,  but  on  duty II  104 

CHAPLAINS. 

When  taken  prisoners  in  discbarge  of  legitimate  duties,  to 

be  immediately  and  unconditionally  released Ill     46 

CHIEFS  OF  ARTILLERY. 

Before  an  action,  to  dispose  teams   for  moving  captured 
pieces I    90 

CLOTHING. 

To  recruits  not  allowed  until  inspected VI  3,  V  6 

Caps,  badges  of  rank,  etc I  4 

To  be  furnished  in  kind,  and  not  commuted I  93 

Value,  of  underdrawn  to  be  paid  soldier  at  end  of  year. ...  I  93 

Commutation  of,  not  allowed  after  October  8,  1862 II  100 

Allowances  of,  to  each  soldier ' Ill  100 

If  soldier  draws  in  excess  of  amount  allowed,  to  be  charged 

against  him  on  muster-roll Ill  100 

Needed  for  issue  to  men,  to  be  procured  from  quartermaster.IV  100 

Ordinarily,  to  be  procured  and  issued  twice  a  year V  100 

Officers  receiving,  to  render  quarterly  returns  to  Quarter- 
master-General  VI  100 


INDEX.  xiX 

How  accounted  for  by  company  commanders VII  100 

Soldiers'  accounts  for,  how  kept VIII  100 

Amount  due  for,  to  detached  or  transferred  soldiers,  to.be 

stated  on  descriptive  list IX   100 

Inspection  of  damaged XII  100 

Necessary  issues  of,  may  be  made  to  prisoners  and  con- 
victs  XIII  100 

Amount  due  discharged  soldiers  for,  to  be  stated X  100 

Deserters'  may  be  turned  in,  and  may  be  reissued  to  prison- 
ers, etc XI   100 

Deficiency  in  accounts  must  be  accounted  for,  eto XIV   100 

COMMANDANTS  OF  CONSCRIPTS. 

To  be  appointed  for  each  state II     82 

To  establish  camps  of  instruction  for  drill  of  conscripts. . .  .11     82 

May  recommend  for  appointment  quartermaster,  surgeon, 
etc II     82 

May  recommend  commandants  for  camps  not  under  his  im- 
mediate command II     82 

Will  establish  hospitals  and  huts  for  winter-quarters,  and 

cause  conscripts  to  bo  vaccinated II     82 

Will  require  monthly  reports  from  camps  of  instruction. . .  .II     82 

Will  render  consolidated  monthly  reports  to  War  depart- 
ment   II     82 

East  of  Mississippi  river  will  receive  orders  only  from  War 

department II     82 

West  of  Mississippi  will  receive  orders  from  commanding 

general II     62 

To  consult  wishes  of  conscripts,  when  consistent  with  inter- 
ests of  service .II     82 

To  pay  attention  to  health,  comfort,  and  instruction  of  con- 
scripts  II     82 

To  enroll  officers  dropped  from  rolls  for  unauthorized  ab- 
sence   II     96 

To  publish  certain  orders  in  newspapers  directing  absentees 

to  return  to  their  commands Ill     9 A 

May  assign  disabled  soldiers  to  duty  of  collecting  strag- 
glers  V     96 

To  be  furnished  with  list  of  enlisted  men  who  fail  to  return 
to  their  commands Ill     96 

COMMANDANTS  OF  REGIMENTS,  ETC. 

Wishing  to  obtain  conscripts,  how  to  proceed II     82 

Forbidden  to  impress  men  under  any  pretence XIII     82 


XX  ISbEK. 

To  mako  monthly  returns  to  AVar  department IV  64 

To  report  names  of  medical  officers  who  lose  their  instru- 

qjents,  or  undertake  to  perform  their  duties  without  them.  V  43 

Failing  to  report  absentees  to  be  summarily  dismissed  .. .  .IV  96 

COMMISSARY  DEPARTMENT. 

Officers  of,  to  turn  over  excess  of  hospital  fund  to  Treasury 

department I     93 

Officers  of,  to  take  charge  of  hospital  fund I     93 

Officers  of,  to  tr.ansfer  hides  to  Quartermaster's  department. Ill     64 
Returns  of  officers  in,  to  be  promptly  examined  by  com- 
manding generals Ill     70 

Officers  of,  to  return  all  barrels  and  sacks IV     65 

Officers  receiving  provisions  from,  to  state  on  back  of  return 

amount  actually  received I     12 

Officers  of,  to  draw  provisions  on  forms  13  and  14,  Subsist- 
ence department IV     13 

Sales   to  officers  from,  made  only  by  subsistence  officers  who 

draw  stores  in  bulk   IV     13 

Issues  from,  not  warranted  by  regulations,  prohibited  . . .  .IV     78 
Officers  of,   receiving  beeves    to  return    equal    number    of 

hides II  101 

Issuing  commissary  to  transfer  hides  to  proper  quartermas- 
ter   II  101 

Oflficers  of,  to  transfer  to  medical  officer  in  charge  of  hospi- 
tal such  portion  of  hospital  fund  as  may  be  demanded  on 
requisition I     95 

COMMISSIONS. 

May  bo  issued' before  organization  of  appropriate  commands, 

when  deemed  of  interest  to  service I     93 

Of  regimental  staff  ofiicers,  except  that  of  adjutant,  are  not 

affected  by  reorganization V--..34 

Of  officers  not  re-eleoted  expire Ill     29 

Of  general  and  staff  ofiicers,  terminate  with  their  com- 
mands, except  assigned  to  other  appropriate  duties I     48 

CONSCRIPTS. 

First  act  of  Conscription.     April  16,  1862 1  30,82 

Second  act  of  Conscription.     Sept.  27,  1862 1  82,93 

President  authorized  to  appoint  enrolling  officers  of I     30 

Will  be  assigned  to  companies  from  own  state I     30 

Excess  to  be  kept  in  reserve I     30 

Entitled  to  pay  for  arms  when  furnishing  themselves I    30 

Permitted  to  volunteer  previous  to  enrolment I     30 


INDEX.  XXI 

To  be  collected  in  camps  of  instruction TI  MO 

To  bo  assigned  to  different  arms,  according  to  wants  of  ser- 
vice   II  30 

Only  assigned  to  cavalry  when  furuisbing  own  horse II  30 

Persons  engaged  in  enrolling,  to  arrest  deserters I  49 

Engaged  on  government  work  only  to  be  removed   for  enrol- 
ment.    (Modified  by  paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No. 

57.) I  50 

Paid  from  date  of  departure  from  home  for  camp IV  50 

Will  not  bo  taken  as  partisan  rangers I  5.^ 

Rules  to  guide  enrolling  and  medical  officers  in  examination 

of ; I  58 

All  capable  of  bearing  arms  to  be  received II  58 

lu  employment  of  government  or  contractors,  if  leave  work 

■without  authority,  will  be  arrested  as  deserters I  fi4 

Not  fit  for  active  service  msiy  be  detailed V  65 

Employed  at  ordnance  workshops  not  to  be  interfered  with  .II  66 
So  employed  to  have  passes  countersigned  by  Col.  Gorgas.III  66 
Execution  of  act  suspended  in  Kentucky  and  Missouri. ...  I  74 
All  resident  white  males  between  18  and  35,  not  legally  ex- 
empt, liable  as ^ I  82 

All  white  male  residents  between  35  and  45,  not  legallj'  ex- 
empt, or  parts  thereof,  called  into  service I  82 

First  to  be  assigned  to  existing  organizations I  82 

Residue  of.  may  be  placed  in  new  organiz.ations I  82 

Persons  not  li.able  as,  may  bo  received  as  substitutes I  82 

May  volunteer  in  old  companies  before,  not  after,  enrolment.   I  82 

Treated  as  deserters  failing  to  appear  at  rendezvous I  82 

Once  in  service,  to  serve  full  time I  82 

If  partial  calls  bo  made,  to  be  some  age  less  than  45 I  82 

Execution  of  act  may  be  suspended  in  certain  localities. ...  I  82 

May  be  enrolled  in  state  not  their  own I  82 

To  be  examined  by  medical  board I  82 

Unable  from  sickness  to  attend  place  of  rendezvous,  to  send 

physician's  certificate  of  fact,  or  bo  held  liable,  etc I  82 

Unable  to  perform  military  duty  in  the  field,  not  to  be  en- 
rolled   I  82 

How  assigned  to  regiments,  battalions, ^tc.   II  82 

For  cavalry  only  taken  from  those  who  furnish  own  horses. II  82 

To  be  vaccina  ted  at  camps  of  instruction II  82 

How  obtained  by  commanders  of  old  regiments,  etc II  82 

Disabled  officers  may  be  assigned  to  duty  of  enrollors IV  82 

Enrolment  of,  how  conducted IV  82 


SXii  liNDEX. 

May  volunteer  in  companies  in    eervico  on  April  16,  1862, 

before,  not  after,  enrolment XII     82 

Failing  to   appear  at  place?   of  rendezvous  for  enrolment, 

treated  as  deserters XIII     82 

Not  to  be  impressed  by  commanders  of  regiments,  eto. .  .XIII  82 
Previous  to   assignment   to   company  may  be  enrolled   in 

navy I     89 

White  residents  between  35  and  45  liable  as;  how  assigned; 

surplus,  how  disposed  of I     03 

West  of  Mississippi  may  be  formed  into  new  organizations.  I  93 
OflScers  resigning  liable  as Ill  107 

CORRESPONDENCE, 

To  be  sent  through  proper  channels Ill     20 

By  telegraph,  of  certain  kinds  prohibited I     78 

DEATHS. 

Of  officers,  to  be  certified  to  by  immediate  commanding  offi- 
cer, who  will  forward  certificate  and  all  necessary  infor- 
mation, etc.,  direct  to  2d  Auditor  of  Treasury I     80 

Of  soldiers,  commanding  officer  to  send  descriptive  list, 
etc.,  direct  to  2d  Auditor  of  Treasiiry I     80 

Of  officers  or  men  in  hospitals,  surgeon  in  charge  to  send 
certificates,  etc.,  direct  to  2d  Auditor  of  Treasury ;  money, 
or  other  efiects,  how  disposed  of II     80 

DECEASED  SOLDIERS. 

Descriptive  lists  of,  sent  2d  Auditor  of  Treasury I  80 

Settlement  of  accounts  of I  93 

Securing  bounty  to  heirs  of I  93 

DEPARTMENT  LIMITS. 

Of  Major-General  Lovell II  39 

Of  General  Beauregard Ill  39 

Of  Trans-Mississippi  department IV  39 

Of  Department  No.  2 II  50 

Of  East  Tennessee Ill  50 

Of  Major-General  G.  W.  Smith , Ill  69 

Of  Major-Gonoral  J.' C.  Pemberton I  73 

DEPOTS, 

Establishing,  at  Augusta,  Georgia,  for  molasses,  sugar,  etc, 

shipped  from  Jackson,  Mississippi IX    38 


INDEX.  XXIU 

DESCRIPTIVE  LISTS. 

Captains  to  take  possession  of,  when  detached  men  return 

to'companics YIII     38 

Payments  on,  only  to   be  made  in  case  of  necessity VIII     38 

Of  deoeased  soldiers,  to  be  sent  to  2d  Auditor  of  Treasury.   I     80 

DESERTERS. 

Sheriffs,  their  deputies,  and  constables  of  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, authorized  to  arrest I     43 

Arrested,  to  be  lodged  in  jail,  and  reported  to    Adjutant 

and  Inspector-General I     43 

$30  reward  will  be  paid  for  each  deserter  delivered  to  an 

oflicer I     43 

$15  reward  will  be  paid  for  each  lodged  in  jail I     43 

Jailors  detaining  will  bo  allowed  .authorized  fee». . . .  I  43,  II     49 
Enrolling  oflBccrs  will   arrest,  and  turn   them  over  to  com- 
mandant of  ne.arest  camp  of  instruction,  etc. . . I    49 

Jailors  requested  to  detain II     49 

To  be  sent  to  proper  regiments  by  commandants  of  camps 

of  instruction .....V     49 

Railroad  employees  authorized  and  requested II    52 

DETAILS. 

May  be  made  to  work  nitre  caves,  on  requisition  of  chief  of 

bure.au I     41 

Men  on,  if  leave  proper  work,  treated  as  deserters I     41 

Not  to  exceed  sixty  days  for  conscripts  emploj'ed  on  gov- 
ernmentwork I     50 

Extensions  of,  may  be  made,  when  necessary I     50 

None  will  be  made  in  Quartermaster,  Commissary,  Ord- 
nance, or  Ho.epital  departments,  which  separate  able-bod- 
ied men  from  regiments IV     07 

Of  enrolled  men  on  government  work,  may  be  made  by  en- 
rolling officer,  not  to  exceed  sixty  days IX     82 

In  case  of,  for  contractors,  employer  to  make  aflSdavit  that 
men  will  not  be  employed  on  any  but  government  work. IX     82 

From  corps  in  field  only  granted  for  government  work,  and 
in  cases  of  necessity Ill     90 

For  contract  work  pay  ceases,  and  full  wages  must  be  paid 

by  contractor Ill     90 

Of  men  as  shoemakers  entitles  them  to  thirty-five  cents  per 
pair  made IV     90 

Permanent,  of  soldiers  may  bo  made  for  hospitals I     03 


XXIV  INDLX. 

DISBURSING  OFFICERS. 

Failing  to  render  returns  within  three  months  to  be  drop- 
pod :..iii    12 

Strictly  to  comply  with  regulations  concerning  returns  ...III     12 

DISCHARGES. 

To  bo  signed  by  regimental  commanders I     26 

When  granted  by  reason  of  substitution,  oflSccr  granting  is 

liable  for  soldier's  indebtedness  to  government I     29 

Granted  by  brigade  commanders  to  persons  over  thirty-five 
years  of  age,  drafted  under  Virginia  state  laws  since  March 
10,1862 I     36 

Citizens  of  Maryland  whoso  terms  of  service  have  expired. 

entitled  to IV     38 

Undomiciled  foreigners  entitled  to,  on  completion  of  terms 
of  service V    38 

Undomiciled  foreigners  receiving  final  papers;  how  made 
out VI    38 

From  Richmond  hospitals,  given  by  Brigadier-General  Jno. 
H.  Winder.  (Revoked  by  paragraph  IV,  General  Orders, 
No.  69) V    41 

Granted  paroled  prisoners  not  enlisted  for  war,  at  expiration 

of  term  of  service I    44 

Granted  to  men  under  IS  and  over  35,  who  have  not  re-en- 
listed for  the  war,  on  the  16th  July  next.  (Revoked  by 
General  Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  III,  current  series.).. IV     44 

Re-enlisted  men  not  subject  to  conscription  not  entitled  to. .  V     44 

Granted  to  twelve  months  men  under  18  and  over  35,  ninety 

days  after  expiration  of  term  of  service II    46 

Authority  for  brigade  commanders  to  grant,  revoked II     48 

llow  granted  on  certificate  of  disability Ill     48 

To  bo  made  under  llth  Article  of  War,  and  General  Orders, 

Nu.  26,  current  series Ill     56 

Granted  to  all  soldiers  under  18  and  over  45,  at  expiration 
of  term  of  service.  (Modified  by  paragraph  V,  General 
Orders,  No.  77.) II     57 

Previous,  not  acknowledged  in  case  of  conscription,  except, 

etc IX     58 

Authority  of  General  Winder  for  granting,  revoked IV     69 

Enlisted  men  receiving  honorable,  entitled  to  transporta- 
tion    I     70 

Applications  for,  in  and  about  Richmond,  to  be  made  to 

General  G.  W.  Smith II     70 

May  bo  granted  by  medical  examining  board II     72 


INDEX.  XXV 

Due  notice  of,  by  examining  boards  to  be  sent  to  "War  de- 
partment   VI     72 

Granted  to  soldiers  under  18  and  over  40  at  expiration  of 
term  of  service V     77 

Fact  of  having,  does  not  of  itself  exempt  from  conscrip- 
tion  VI     82 

Torm  of Ill     89 

DOMICIL. 

Consists  in  residence  with  apparent  intention  to  remain  per- 
manently  IV  82,111  68 

Long  residence  does  not  of  itself  constitute IV  82 

Marriage,  exercise  of  citizenship,  etc.,  evidences  of IV  82 

DRUNKENNESS. 

Adopting  General  Bragg's  order  concerning I       3 

Act  to  punish,  in  army.     April  21,  1862 38 

ELECTIONS. 

None  to  be  hold  afterward  except  in  lowest  grade.    {Sec.  4.).   I  1 

Regularly  enlisted  state  troops  shall  not  hold.     (Sec.  4.)...    I  1 

May  be  held  for  all  officers  by  reorganized  troops Ill  1 

Manner  of  holding  to  be  in  accordance  with  state  laws. . .  .VI  30 

ENGINEERS  CORPS. 

Officers  of,  in  Provisional  army,  may  have  ranks  conferred  on 

them I     93 

Provisional  otlicers  of,  not  to  exceed  one  colonel,  etc I     93 

Act  to  regulate  rank  of  officers  in  Provisional I     93 

ENROLLING  OFFICERS. 

Will  arrest  deserters I    49 

To  .arrest  persons  absent  over  a  certain  time I     49 

To  report  to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  names  of  all 

absentees  from  army  without  authority I     49 

Rules  for  guidance  of,  in  examination  of  conscripts I     58 

To  arrest  as  deserters  conscripts  who  have  left  employ  of 

government  contractors  without  authority I     64 

Not  to  interfere  with  conscripts  employed  at  ordnance  work- 
shops   II    66 

Not  to  remove  men  employed  in  nitre  caves,  or  by  Ordnance 
department,  without  first  obtaining  consent  of  officer  in 

charge V     66 

Expressly  prohibited  from  enrolling  undomicilod  foreign- 
ers   in     OS 


XXVI  INDEX. 

Notified   that  resignation  of  officer  does  not  exempt  from 

conscription Ill     68 

Disabled  officers,  etc.,  to  be  assigned  to  duty  as IV     82 

Commanding  generals  may  order  such  officers  as  they  deem 
fit  for,  to  report  to  commandant  of  conscripts  of  respec- 
tive states IV     82 

Of  states  to  be  paid  compensation  allowed  by  state  laws  .  .IV     82 
For  particular  regiments,  etc.,  to  report  to  commandant  of 

conscripts IV     82 

To  attend  examination  of  conscripts VI     82 

EXEMPTION. 

Persons  claiming,  to  make  oath  to  enrolling  officer XI     30 

Act  of,  April  21,  18G2 I     32 

Certificates  of,  to  be  granted  by  enrolling  officer Ill     32 

Applications  for,  not  considered  at  War  department V     37 

Uudomiciled  foreigners  are  exempt V     38 

Men  employed  in  Nitre  bureau  exempt I     41 

Physical  causes  for 68 

Discharge  on  physical  disability  not  of  itself  sufficient  cause 

for VI  58,  82 

Act  of,  to  be  construed  prospectively  ;  does  not  authorize  dis- 
charge of  men  enrolled  prior  to  October  11,  1862 V     82 

Question  of,  in  case  of  physical  disability,  determined  by 

medical  examining  board VI     82 

Persons  not  capable  of  bearing  arras VI     82 

Certificates  of,  to  state  whether  incapacity  is  temporary  or 

permanent VI     82 

Act  of,  approved  October  11,   and  repealing  act  April  21, 

1862 I     82 

Of  Friends,  Dunkards,  Nazarones,  and  Mennonites,  on  pay- 
ment of  tax  of  $500 VII     82 

In  case  of  shoemakers,  tanners,  etc VIII     82 

Application  for,  to  be  made  to  enrolling  officer — appeal  may 

be  taken  to  commandant  of  conscripts X     82 

Application  for,  not  considered  by  department  until  referred 

by  commandant  conscripts X     82 

EXPRESS  COMPANY. 

Will  carry  all  government  funds II     77 

EXTORTION. 

Provisions   against VIII     82 

FORAGE. 

To  be  furnished  to  officers  and  men  on  nitre  service Ill    41 


INDEX.  XXVll 

F0REI(3NERS. 

How  naturalized,  and  uniform  rulo  of  naturalization I     13 

Undomicilcd,  not  liable  to  enrolment IV  82,  III     68 

FURLOUGHS. 

Granted  to  all  twelve  months  men  rc-enlisting I       1 

Duration  of I       1 

Value  of  transportation  home  ond  back  to  soldiers  entitled 

to,  may  be  CKmmuted I       1 

All  revoked 16 

Applications  for,  in  and  about  Richmond,  made  to  General 

G.  W.  Smith II     70 

May  bo  granted  by  medical  examining  boards II     72 

Duo  notice  of,  by  examining  boards,  to  be  forwarded  to  War 

depart  mept VI     72 

GENERAL  INTELLIGENCE  OFFICE. 

Established  to  facilitate  commuuieation  with  the  army  ....   I     45 
Surgeons   and   commanders    to   furnL-^h   all   information  in 

power  to I     45 

HABEAS  CORPUS. 

Military  commanders  have  no  right  to  suspend  writ  of I  50 

HOSPITALS. 

Ration  of,  to  bo  commuted  at  $1  per  da}' I  93 

Fund  of,  how  kept  and  how  disbursed I  93 

Allowing  suits  of  clothing  equal  to  number  of  beds I  93 

Matrons,  female  nurses,  and  attendants  allowed  for I  93 

To  be  known  and  numbered  as  hospitals  of  a  particular  state.   I  93 

Soldiers  may  bo  permanently  detailed  in I  93 

Persons  employed  in,  not  in  military  service,  paid  on  rolls 

made  out  by  surgeon  in  charge I  93 

Medical  officer  in  charge  of,  to  detail  competent  persons  to 
accompany  sick  and  wounded  to  railroad  depot,  and  to  se- 
cure scat  on  cars I  93 

To  be  established  at  camps  of  instruction II  80 

Rations  issued  to,  not  subject  to  reduction Ill  72 

General,  under  authority  of  local  commanding  olTicer Ill  78 

Management  of,  under  control  senior  surgeon. .. Ill  78 

IMPRESSMENTS  OF  PROPERTY. 

Agents  taking  private  property  must  have  authority  from 
commanding    generals    or   commander  of  district  under 

martial  law II  44 

Written  authority  for  must  be.shown  by  agents  before  seizure.  II  44 

Receipts  shall  designate  officer  to  pay  for  property II  44 


XXVlll  INDEX. 

Necessity  alone  can  warrant II    66 

Of  any  description  belonging  to  states  expressly  prohibited. Ill     61 
When  made  by  mistake,  restitution  to  be  made  at  onco  . .  .Ill     61 
LEAVES  OF  ABSENCE. 

All  revoked 16 

Applications  for,  from  officers  in  Richmond  who  can  not  ap- 
ply to  proper  commanding  officer,  to  be  made  to  General  G. 
W.  Smith ...II     70 

LIQUORS. 

Introduction  of,  into  camps  prohibited II       3 

If  80  introduced,  to  be  destroyed II       3 

LOCAL  DEFENCE. 

Companies  for,  may  be  organized  from  persons  not  liable  to 

military  duty I     93 

Companies  for,  may  establish  own  rules,  but  not  entitled  to 

pay *. I    93 

Will  transmit  muster-rolls  to  Governor  of  state  and  Secreta- 
ry of  War I     93 

Members  of  companies  for,  to  take  oath  of  allegiance  to  Con- 
federate States I     93 

MAILS. 

Transportation  of  troops  not  to  interfere  with 22 

MARTIAL  LAW. 

Proclaimed  over  Richmond 9 

Over  Petersburg 11 

Over  various  parts  of  Virginia 15, 18 

Over  Department  of  East  Tennessee 21 

Over  part  of  South  Carolina 33 

Over  counties  of  Leo,  Wise,  Buchanan,  McDowell,  and  Wy- 
oming           35 

In  places  under,  civil  authorities  to  tako  cognizance  of  cer- 
tain laws 42,55 

Where  proclaimed,   civil  tribunals  may  take  cognizance  of 

certain  cases II     42 

Docs  not  justify  arbitrary  establishment  of  prices I     56 

All  proclamations  of,  by  general  officers,  annulled I     66 

MEDICAL  OFFICERS. 

To  inspect  recruits  before  leaving  state  in  which  enlist- 
ed  IV2,  IV       6 

Regulations  for  guidance  of 16 

After  losing  their  instruments,  etc.,  to  be  reported  by  cora- 

maniling    officer!* V     43 


INDEX.  XXIX 

Attached  to  regiments,  not  to  remain  with  patients  in  gener- 
al hospital V     44 

Taken  prisoners  of  war,  to  be  at  onec  discharged II     45 

On  parole,  discharged  therefrom ITI     45 

Not  to  recommend  furloughs,  etc.,  in  cases  of  sickness,  ex- 
cept, etc IV    43 

Stationed  at  camps  of  instruction  and  such  military  stations 

as  may  be  designated  for  examination  of  conscripts I     58 

Rules  to  guide,  in  examination  of  conscripts I     58 

Not  to  examine  conscripts  unless  specially  detailed X     53 

To  have  exclusive  control  of  hospital  wagons  and  ambu- 
lances, except,  etc. . II     61 

Examining  conscripts  to  forward  weekly  reports  of  men  un- 
fit for  active  duty,  who  may  be  otherwise  useful V     65 

Senior  to  act  as  commandant  of  post,  in  absence  of  regulnr- 
ly  appointed  olficer.     (Revoked  by  General  Orders,   No. 

14,  of  1863) IV     72 

In  purveying  department,  will  be  authorized  by  command- 
ing generals  to  impress  medical  stores  in  hands  of  specu- 
lators   I     73 

Senior  surgeons  to  control  general  hospitals Ill     78 

In  charge  of  hospitals,  to  make  returns  direct  to  2d  Audi- 
tor in  cases  of  officers  and  soldiers I     80 

Examining  conscripts,  allowed  $4  per  diem  while  actually 

employed ' .- VI     82 

In  charge  of  hospitals,  may  make  re()uisitions  on  commis- 
sary for  hospital  fund  for  necessarj'  purchases 93 

In  charge  of  hospitals,  to  detail  competent  persons  to  accom- 
pany sick  and  wounded  to  railroad  depots,  and  to  secure 

seats  on  cars '. . .  I     93 

Directors  and    inspectors   to    forward    to    Surgeon-General 

copies  of  all  circulars,  printed  orders,  etc.,  issued  by  them .  II     90 

Instructions  to 95 

One  from  army,  associated  with  two  others,  in  examination 

of  conscripts I  101 

Not  to  issue  certificates  for  furloughs,  except  in  urgent  cases  •  I  107 
MILITARY  COURTS. 

One  to  be  appointed  for  each  army  corps  in  field I     93 

To  consist  of  three  members,  two  of  whom  shall  bo  a  quo- 
rum     I     93 

Judge  advocate  to  be  appointed  by  President ,....,,.   I     93 

Commanding  general  may  detail  temporary  judge  advocate 
of I     93 


XXX  INDEX. 

Each  court  may  appoint  a  provost  marabal  and  clerk  to  at- 
tend sittings I  93 

Members  of,  an  J  judge  advocate  may  administer  oaths I  93 

Jurisdiction  and  duties  of,   defined I  93 

Can  not  try  olJicers  of  higher  grade  than  colonel I  93 

Proceedings  of,  subject  to  review,  mitigation,  etc I  93 

Names  of  officers  appointed  on I  109 

Officers  composing,  to  report  to  ofiicers  commanding  respec- 
tive army  corps II  109 

MILITARY  TRIALS.  ETC. 

Case  of  Captain  AV.  T.  Meeckling 25 

Case  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  C.M.Bradford 27 

Case  of  Jno.  Minor  Botts 28 

Proceedings  of,  in  case  of  drunkenness 69 

Case  of  Major  Jno.  G.  Barnwell 79 

Case  of  Colonel  Jno.  Duunovant S3 

Case  of  Private  Jos.  Mclntyre 85 

Case  of  Thos.  Gillispie '. >  85 

Case  of  Michael  Hagerty 85 

Case  of  Wm.  Beasley 85 

Case  of  Private  F.  H.  R.  Mace 85 

Case  of  Lieutenant  Alexander  Doyle 87 

Case  of  Lieutenant  W.  E.  Erwin 88 

Case  of  Captain  A.  S.  Cannet 9-4 

Case  of  Lieutenant  Caldin  Dickenson 103 

Case  of  alleged  fraud  in  Commissary  department 100 

Case  of  Lieutenant  David  A.  Alexander 5 

Case  of  Captain  W.  B.  Bruce 7 

Case  of  Colonel  M.  G.  Harman 108 

Case  of  Lieutenant  W.  W.  Dunlap,  commuting  sentence  . . .  102 

No.  Par.  MODIFICATIONS. 

24  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  first,  section 

fourth,  as  to  ordnance  sergeants. 
24  III     Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  first,  section 

first,  to  permit  appointments  of  brigade  ordnance  ofi&cers, 

with  rank  of  first  lieutenant  artillery. 

31  II     Modified  so  as  to  make  Augusta,  Ga.,  the  depot  for  said  ar- 

ticles. General  Orders,  No.  38,  paragraph  IX;  also. 
General  Orders,  No.  45,  paragraph  IV. 

32  IV     Modified  Ijy  General   Orders,  No.  45,  series   1863,   so  as  to 

allow  on)y  a  two-hovue  wagon,  and  also  by  General  Orders, 
No.  61,  paragraph  II,  placing  such  wagons  under  exclusive 
control  of  medical  oflicer.s,  etc. 


INDEX.  XXXI 

34  General    Orders,  No.  38,    paragraph  III,  provides  tbat  the 

battalion  bo  composed  of  soldiers  from  same  state. 

36  II  Revoked,  and  (rciieral  Orders,  No.  39,  paragraph  I,  substitut- 
ted  therefor. 

.37  Foreigners  undomieiliated  also  exempt.    General  Orders,  No. 

38,  paragraph  V. 

42  II  Revoked  b}'  General  Orders,  No.  55,  paragraph  I,  which  is 
substituted  in  lieu  thereof. 

44  I  Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  53,  paragraph  III.  Those 
whose  regiments  are  in  the  East  will  report  at  Richmond; 
those  whoso  regiments  are  in  the  West  at  Vicksburg,  Miss. 

44  IV  Rescinded,  and  General  Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  II,  sub- 
stituted in  lieu  thereof. 

47    IV     Explained  by  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  24,  series  1S63. 

50       I     Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  82,  paragraph  IX. 

53  IV  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  61,  paragraph  III,  omitting 
the  words,  •'  cspecicdlij  <>/  armi  (ind  ordnance  stores." 

56  I  See  also  General  Orders,  No.  66,  paragraph  I,  annulling  all 
proclamations  of  martial  law. 

56  III  E.xplaiued  by  General  Orders,  No.  67,  paragraph  I.  It  ap- 
plies only  to  paroled  or  exchanged  prisoners  in  hospitals 
"without  descriptive  lists. 

58  General  Orders,  No.  65,  paragraph  V,  provides,  in  addition, 

that  medical  officers  forward  weekly,  to  Richmond,  names 
of  conscripts  recommended  for  light  dut}'. 

58  General  Orders,  No.  67,  paragraph  II  and  III.     Surgeons, 

quartermasters,  and  commissary  -  generals  will  cause  in- 
spoction  to  be  made  in  respective  departments  of  able- 
bodied  men  subject  to  conscription,  and  will  fill  their  places 
with  those  recommended  for  light  duty. 

61  II  Enlarged,  so  as  to  m.ake  it  also  the  duty  of  quartermasters 
to  keep  the  ambulances  and  wagons  in  good  condition,  and 
ready  for  active  service.  Soo  General  Orders,  No.  34,  series 
1863,  paragraph  IV. 

02  II  Amended  by  CJenoral  Orders,  No.  C4,  paragraph  V,  the  words 
"  and  ])<trolcd"  being  omitted. 

64  III  Enlarged  by  General  Orders,  No.  119,  paragraph  IV,  to  ex- 
tend to  slaughtered  sheep. 

05  lit  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  07,  paragraph  I;  extended 
bj'  General  Orders  No.  68,  paragraph  I,  to  embrace  all 
soldiers  sick  in  hospitals  or  on  furlough ;  amended  by 
General  Orders,  No.  105,  paragraph  I,  limiting  such  pay- 
ments to  monthly  pay  of  soldier  mustered  on  hospital  rolls. 


XXXI 1  INDEX. 

and  specific  directions  to  quartermasters  making  such  pay- 
ments. 

66  V  Eularged  so  as  to  include  "furnaccii "  worked  by  government 
officers  within  its  provisions.  (See  General  Orders,  No.  32, 
series  18C;5,  paragraph  I.) 

68  I  Eularged  by  General  Orders,  No.  70,  paragraph  IV,  ordering 
additional  qualifloationa  for  applicants  for  rank  of  captain 
of  artillery  in  Ordnance  department. 

68  II     Limited  by  General  Orders,  No.  105,  paragraph  I. 

69  I     Extended  to  include  to  commanders  of  posts,  senior  surgeons 

of  hospitals,  who  will  make  similar  reports,  so  far  as  they 
relate  to  their  respective  commands.  (See  General  Orders, 
No.  59,  paragraph  I,  series  1863.) 

72  IV  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  107,  paragraph  I,  ordering 
that  surgeons  refurred  to  will  not  grant  said  certificates, 
unless  health  of  soldier  requires  his  removal. 

82  II  Sec,  2.  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  96,  paragraph  V, 
ordering  that  commissioned  officers  and  privates  incapable 
of  bearing  arms,  be  assigned  to  collecting  stragglers  and 
conscripts. 

82  VI  Sec.  1.  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  101,  paragraph  I, 
further  amended  by  General  Orders.  No.  9,  series  1863, 
further  modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  15,  series  1863. 

95  I     Increased  by  General  Orders,  No.  62,  paragraph  I,  to  $1  25. 

96  VI     E.Tctended  so  as  to  employ  such  persons  as  railroad  guards, 

etc.,  at  request  of  officers  of  staff  departments,  or  of  local 
military  commanders. 

97  II     Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  28,  series  1863,  so  as  to  apply 

also  to  "contr.actors  with  the  Ordnance  department." 
100  III  Amended  so  as  to  allow  value  of  clothing  to  be  paid  upon 
descriptive  list  when  soldier  is  absent  with  leave,  and  not 
to  rejoin  his  command  for  sixty  days. 
100  I  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  9,  series  1863,  so  as  to  allow 
the  two  surgeons  to  bo  selected  from  the  districts  where  they 
are  to  act,  when  surgeons  can  not  be  obtained  from  their 
congressional  districts.  Further  modified  by  General  Or- 
ders, No.  15,  series  1863,  to  allow  commandants  of  con- 
scripts, when  surgeons  can  not  bo  "employed,"  to  constitute 
such  boards,  temporarily,  by  medical  officers  under  their 
authority. 

MUSTERS. 

Captains  to  make  out  duplicate  muster-rolls II       1 

Inspector-general  to  muster  troops  into  service II       1 


INDEX.  xxxin 

Ilolls  for  mustering  out,  to  contain  names  borne  on  all  pre- 
vious rolls I  19 

Rolls  to  be  completed  at  time  of  company's  discharge I  19 

Brigade  commanders  to  designate  olliccrs  for  purpose  of.  .Ill  19 

Rolls  must  be  signed  by  company  commanders I  26 

Sick  or  wounded  in  hospitals  may  be  paid  on  hospital  rolls  .II  C8 
For  payment,  in  casci  of  soldier's  discharge  by  medical  board, 

to  be  made  by  senior  surgeon  on  soldier's  alfidavit IV  72 

Rolls  of  companies  for  local  defence,  to  be  forwarded  to  Sec- 
rotary  of  War I  93 

NATURALIZATION. 

Uniform  rule  of,  for  persons  enlisted  in  armies  of  Confederate 
States I     13 

NAVY  AND  MARINE  CORPS. 

Act  to  permit  enlistment  in,  approved  October  2,  1862....  I     89 
Persons  ODrollcd,  or  subject  to  enrolment,  may  at  discretion 
join,  provided  whole  number  does  not  exceed  maximum 

allowed  by  law I     89 

Pay  of,  increased  $4  per  month I     89 

Transfers  to,  to  bo  made  in  presence  of  enrolling  officer  or 

otlicer  of  navy II     89 

NITRE. 

Details  may  be  made  to  work  caves I     41 

Uenerals  and  military  commaudantdi  to  afford  protection  to 

works  I    41 

Persons  in  employment  of  bureau  exempt  from  service II     41 

Officers  and  men  of  bureau  to  be  furnished  with  provisions 
and  forage,  as  in  ease  of  ordnance  officers  and  men  in  the 

field Ill     41 

Ollicers  of  bureau  authorized  to  impress  free  negroes IV     41 

Imprcssmeut  of,  from  plantation  and  domestic  sources,  au- 
thorized          99 

Labor  for  bureau,  how  procured 99 

Resignations  in  bureau  placed  on  same  footing  as  in  line. . .  99 

Superintendent  required  to  impress  caves,  etc.,  not  properly 

worked  ;  compensation  therefor,  how  settled IV     66 

OATHS. 

Of  allegiance  and  naturalization,  form  of,  for  aliens  wish- 
ing   to    become    naturalized  ;    how,    and    before    whom 

made II,  III     13 

Of  allegiance  and  naturalization  taken  by  persons  in  mili- 
tary service,  to  bo  forwarded  to  War  department IV     13 


XXXIV  INDEX. 

Of  allegiance  to  United  States  will  not  exempt  from  con- 
scription   II     62 

Persons  taking,  of  allegiance  to  United  States,  and  after- 
ward cQ.nseripted,  will,  if  captured,  be  demanded  as 
prisoners  of  war V     64 

May  be  administered  by  quartermasters  to  sick  and  wound- 
ed soldiers  to  enable  them  to  draw  pay I     98 

Members   and   officers   of  military   courts    may   administer 

certain I     93 

Of  allegiance  to  Confederate  States,  to  bo  taken  by  members 

of  companies  organized  for  local  defence I     93 

OFFICERS. 

Detailed  on  recruiting  service  to  make  requisitions  on  A. 

and  I.  G.  for  blanks,  funds,  etc HI       2 

On  recruiting  service  to  keep  strict  account  on  disburse- 
ments  VIII       2 

Detailed  on  recruiting  service  to  make  requisitions  on  A. 

and  I.  G.  for  blanks,  funds,  etc Ill       6 

Oa  recruiting  service  to  keep  strict  account  of  disburse- 
ments  VIII       6 

Not  to  be  sent  to  seat  of  government  on  business  except 
by  commanding  generals Ill     IT 

One  to  be  detailed  from  each  state  to  take  charge  of  enrol- 
ment, etc.,  of  conscripts II     30 

Of  sharp-shooters,  to  be  appointed  by  President I     34 

Newly-olectcJ,  to  be  examined  by  boards  of  examination.  .II     36 

In  command  of  forts,  etc.,  if  compelled  to   withdraw,  must 

save  ammunition Ill    43 

In  command  of  medical  officers,  to  report  them,  if  they  lose 

or  appear  on  field  without  proper  instruments V     43 

Not  to  siezc  arms  belonging  to  states VI     50 

In  command,  to  promptly  examine  commissary  returns..  .Ill     70 

Charged  with  disbursement  of  bounty  funds,  to  render  ac- 
counts to  Quartermastcr-Ocueral Ill     77 

Commanding  regiments,  etc.,  forbidden   to   impress  men  on 

any  pretence XIII     82 

May  bj  appointed  during  recess  of  Sonate,  subject  to  ap- 
proval   I     93 

May  b3  suspended  when  pronounced  unfit  by  boards  of  ex- 
aminers    I     93 

Examined  before  boards  entitled  to  call  witnesses I     93 

May  be  retired  or  dropped  from  the  army  by  President,  on 

recommendation  of  examining  board I     03 


INDEX.  XXXV 

If  dropped,  to  be  succeeded  by  officer  next  in  rank,  if  com- 
petent    I    ^^ 

May  be    appointed  by  President  to  command  camps  of  in- 

T      Q'X 

struction ^     "' 

Distinguished  in  field  of  battle,  to  have  medal  bestowed. . .  I  93 
Twenty  generals  authorized  to  be  appointed  by  President..  I  93 
Absent  twenty  days  without  authority,  to  be  dropped,  and 

enrolled  as  conscripts II     ^* 

Disabled,  may  bo  assigned  to  duty  of  collecting  stragglers. .  V     96 

Resigning,  subject  to  conscription Ill  107 

To  report  facts  and  circumstances  of   "  extraordinary  valor 

and  skill  "  on  part  of  olRcers  and  men I  HO 

ORDERS. 

Complimentary    to    General    Van    Dorn,    and     Lieutenant 

Brown,  C.  S.N ^^ 

Published  in  Richmond  Enquirer  will  be  regarded  as  official  I     01 

ORDNANCE. 

Quarterly  returns  of,  to  be  made  to  department IV  17 

Heavy  not  to  be  fired  oftencr  than  once  in  five  minutes II  20 

Returns  of,  to  be  made  quarterly ^^ 

Major-General  Huger  assigned  to  dnty  as  inspector  of I  62 

Regulation  fixing  price  of  arms,  parts  of  arms,  etc II  78 

Not  to  be  contracted  for,  or  purchased  by  ordnance  officers 

serving  on  staffs  of  commanding  generals,  except,  etc  .  .IV  80 

ORDNANCE  CORPS. 

Officers  of,  to  receive  damaged  powder  and  ammunition,  and 

forward  it,  etc ^      13 

•       Officers  assigned  to  duty  iu,  Avith  troops  in  field,  to  bo  report- 
ed to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General • I     24 

Sergeants  in,  how  appointed,  and  duties  of V     24 

Officers  of,  serving  on  stafl"  of  commanding  generals,  not  to 

contract  for  or  purchase  ordnance  supplies,  excepted,  etc.  X     24 

Duties  of  officers  iu  VI,  VII,  VIII,  IX     24 

Authorizing  assignment  of   officers  for  duty  in,  for  dift'erent 

organizations II>  IHj  I  '      ** 

Department  to  furnish  arms  for  sharp-shooters IV     34 

Duties  of  sergeants  in 35 

Instructions  to  officers  of,  in  field 35,  66 

Officers  of,  with  rank  of  first  lieutenant,  may  be  appointed 

for  brigades I     ^^ 

Brigade  ordnance  officers  to  be  subjected  to,  make  requisi- 
tions on,  and  report  to,  division  ordnance  officers I     46 


XXXVl  INDEX. 

Sergeants  of,  subject  to  brigade  ordnance  ofl5cers I  46 

Appointments   of  sergeants  of,  made   by  Secretary  of  "War 

on  colonel's  recomuicndation I  40 

Convening  board  for  examination  of  applicants  for  appoint- 
ment in  .. . I  63 

Applicants  for  appointment  in,  in  what  examined I  68 

Applicants  for  rank  of  captain,  in  what  examined IV  70 

Applicants  for   appointments    in,  to  present   themselves  for 

examination,  etc I  71 

Officers   of,  passing   board,   will   be   arranged    for  appoint- 
ment  ^ Ill  71 

Officers  on  duty  in,  to  bo  examined  before  promotion IV  71 

Officers  of,  serving  on  staff  of  commanding  generals,  not  to 

contract  for  or  purchase  ordnance  supplies,  except,  etc.  .IV  80 

Appointment  of  seventy  additional  officers  of,  authorized. . .  93 

ORGANIZATION. 

Troops,  at  expiration  of  term,  have  right  of I  1 

Companies  failing  to  reorganize,  to  bo  organized  by  Presi- 
dent, who  will  appoint  field  officers VI  1 

Of  Maryland  line,  by  Col.  G.  II.  Stewart Ill  8 

Twelve  months  troops,  right  of VI  30 

ORGANIZATIONS 

Cases  only  in  which  authority  is  granted  for  new I     20 

Authority  for  new  revoked  unless  completed  within  sixty  days         2.3 

New,  allowed  in  the  States  of  Kentucky  and  Missouri I     74 

Of  twelve  months  volunteers,  provision  for I     82 

Authority  for  forming  new  vacated,  unless  completed  within 

certain  time I     82 

Vacancies  in  existing,  how  filled I     8^ 

New,  formed  in  good  faith  prior  to  October  2,  1862,  may  be 

received I     93 

New,  of  conscripts  west  of  Misssissippi,  may  be  received  ...   I     93 
Formed  in  Middle  and  West  Tennessee,  Eastern  North  Caroli- 
na, prior  to  December  1, 1862,  may  bo  received  at  discre- 
tion of  President I     93 

PARTISAN  RANGERS, 

Act  authorizing  organization  of,   April  21,   1862 I  30' 

Entitled  to  same  pay,  rations,  and  quarters  as  other  soldiers  I  30 

Receive  pay  for  captured  property I  30 

Transfers  to,  from  line,  not  allowed II  •  43 

If  officers    of,  enlist  from  line,    authority  for  raising   will 

bo  revoked ..II  43 

Persons  liable  as  conscripts  not  to  be  taken  as I  53 


INDEX.  xxxvn 

PAYMENTS. 

To  be  made,  when  pmcticablo,  onco  every  two  months II  19 

To  companies  not  made  to  a  fractional  part  of  a  month,  ex- 
cept, etc II  19 

Made  to  officers  by  quartermasters  of  districts  in  which  they 

serve II  26 

To  oHiccrs  on  leave,  etc.,  made  by  any  quartermaster II  2C) 

Due  a  soldier,  go  to  his  substitute  (Section  3) I  29 

Partisan  rangers  entitled  to  same  as  other  soldiers I  30 

On  descriptive  lists  only  to  be  made  in  cases  of  necessity.  VIII  38 
Of  $9  per  month  extra  for  each  five  years  service  in  U.  S. 

and  C.  S.  armies YI  41 

Of  non-commissioned  officers  on  duty  in  signal  corps  ••'.  ••Ill  40 
To  brigade  ordnance  officers  equal  to  1st  lieutenant  of  artil- 
lery     I  46 

To  troops  raised  by  states,  from  date  of  rondexvous IV  50 

To  paroled  or  exchanged  priiJoners,  sick  or  wounded  in  hos- 
pitals, how  made I  65,  I  67 

To  paroled  and  exchanged  prisoners  in  hospitals  without  de- 
scriptive lists,  how  made Ill  65 

To  soldiers  discharged  by  medical  board,  how  made IV  72 

Of  commissioned    officers,  not  to    be  made  by    other    than 

own  quartermaster,  except,  etc I  SI 

Rate  of,  to  enlisted  men  employed  enrolling  conscripts  . . .  .IV  82 

Rate  of,  to  state  enrolling  officers • IV  82 

Medical  officers  examining  conscripts  entitled  to  $4  per  diem 

while  actually  employed VI  82 

To  sailors  and  marines  increased  $4  per  month I  89 

Rate  of,  to  lioutcuant-gcuerals I  93 

Rate  of,  to  matrons,  nurses,  etc.,  in  hospitals I  93 

Rate  of,  to  adjutants  of  battalions I  93 

Of  Jiceount  deceased  soldiers,  how  and  by  whom   made....   I  93 

Rate  of,  to  cadets,  equal  to  2d  lieutenant  of  same  arm I  93 

Of  commissioned  officers  absent  from  command,  not  to   be 

made  without  exhibition  of  authority  for  absence VI  96 

Made  to  officers  from  date  of  acceptance  of  jippointment. . .  76 
PRISONERS. 

Paroled,  not  enlisted  for  war,  names  to  bo  dropped  from  rolls 
at  expiration  of  term  of  service  (revoked  by  paragraph 

III,  General  Orders,  No.  44,  current  series) I  44 

Paroled,    whose  regiments  are  in   East,    to  report  at  Rich- 
mond  Ill  53 

Paroled,  whose  r-egiments  are  in  West,  to  report  at  Vicks- 

burg in  6:! 


XXXViil  INDEX. 

From  ofiBcers  of  Generals  Pope  and   Steinwchr  commands, 

be  retained  as  hostages 54 

Paroled  and  exchanged  in  hospitals,  without  descriptive  lists, 

to  be  paid  on  own  affidavit Ill  fiS,  I     67 

Notice  of,  duly  exchanged I     75 

Exchanged,  to  join  respective  regiments,  etc.,  without  delay. II     75 

Notice  of,  duly  exchanged I     86 

PRIVATE  PROPERTY. 

Must  invariably  be  respected Ill  104 

Only  to  be  taken  when  indispensable  for  the  public  service, 

and  then  in  prescribed  miinner Ill  104 

Commanders  should  do  everything  to  protect IV  104 

PROMOTION. 

To  bo  by  seniority,  except  in  cases  of  disability  (Sec.  10). . .   I     30 
Announced  by  brigade  commanders,  when  occurring  in  com- 
pany officers V     43 

Copy  of  order  announcing,  to  be  furnished  to  War  depart- 
ment  VI    43 

Of  company  officers  in   Provisional  army,  to  take  place  in 

respective  companies II     65 

To  be  by  seniority,  when  vacancies  occur  from  dropping  offi- 
cers, competency  for  being  first  determined-  by  board  of 

examination I     93 

PROVISION  RETURNS. 

To  be  endorsed  by  officers  receiving  provisions.  .J I     12 

Commanding  officers  to  reject  those  not  endorsed II     12 

PROVOST  MARSHALS. 

Prohibited  from  taking  cognizance  of  civil  cases I     42 

To  aid  civil  authorities  in  places  under  martial  law Ill     42 

Each  military  court  may  appoint  one,  with  rank  of  captain 

of  cavalry I     93 

QUARTERMASTER'S  DEPARTMENT. 

Oflicors  of,  to  make  inspection  of  premises  occupied  by 
troops,  and  will  be  charged  with  damages  if  not  re- 
ported   V    39 

To  mount  enlisted  men  of  signal  corps,  on  order  of  com- 
manding general IV     40 

To  furnish  necessary  flags,  etc.,  for  signal  corps V     40 

Officers  of,  to  preserve  for  tanning, hides  received  from  com- 
missaries of  subsistence Ill     64 

Not  to  issue  fuel  and  straw  to  servants VI     66 

Officers  of,   to  report  to  Major  A.  H.  Cole  number  of  horses, 

Wiigons,  etc. .    76 


INDEX.  XXXIX 

Chief  quarterm.istcrs  to  see  that  sub-quartermasters  make  re- 
quired reports  to  Major  Cole 7<5 

Officers  of  may  receive  and  receipt  for  tax  of  $500,  tendered 
by  Friend?,  Dunkards,  etc.,  for  exemption VII     82 

OflScers  of,  charged  with  payment  of  troops,  prohibited 
from  paying  staff  officers  who  do  not  exhibit  evidence  of 
appropriate  assignment  to  duties I     91 

Officers  of  may  administer  oaths  in  certain  cases I     93 

Not  to  pay  officers  or  soldiers  not  showing  good  authority 

for  absence  from  proper  commands VI     9d 

Officers  of  not  to  visit  Richmond  for  supplies I     97 

Officers  of  not  to  interfere  with  ordnance  agents  in  purchase 
of  leather II     97 

Officers  of,  making  pr.j-ments  tc  troops  in  hospital,  to  for- 
ward lists  of,  etc.,  to  company  commanders,  throagh  Ad- 
jutant and  Inspoctor-Qoncral's  office I  105 

RAILROADS, 

.General  Lee's  order  to  prevent  collisions  on,  etc 15 

RANK  OF  OFFICERS. 

Of  new  organizations  to  take  effect  from  date  of  acceptance 

into  Confederate  service II    47 

To  be  determined  by  lot,  when  companies  of  same  regiment, 

etc.,  enter  service  on  same  day,  except  in   case  of  former 

commission Ill    47 

Of  officers  continuing  in  same  grade  after  reorganization, 

to  take  effect  from  date  of  original  commission IV     47 

Changing  grade,  to  take  efiect  from  such  change IV     47 

May  be  conferred  on  engineer  officers  in  Provisional  army 

equal  to  Regular 93 

RATIONS. 

Commutation  of,  allowed  to  recruits  from,  etc.,  to V       2 

Issued  to  hospitals,  not  subject  to  reduction Ill     72 

Commuted  value  of,  to  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals,  $1  . .         95 
RECRUITING. 

Act  authorizing,  Deo.  19,  1861 1  2,  I       6 

One  subaltern   and  one  enlisted   man  from  each  company 

may  bo  detailed  on II       2 

Officers  detailed  on,  to  make  requisition  on  Adjutant  and 

Inspector-General,  for  recruiting  funds Ill       2 

Recruits  to  be  inspected  by  medical  officer IV       2 

Commutatiou  of  rations  allowed  recruits  from,  etc V  2,  V       6 

No  clothing  allowed  until  recruit  is  inspected VI  2,  VI       6 


xl  INDEX. 

Time  allowed  for,  not  to  exeoed  thirty  days VII  2,  VII  6 

Officers  on  service  to  keep  ^rict  account  ofdisbuFsemonts.  VIII  2 

•   Recruits  to  be  furnished  with  transportation I  6 

Regulations  for  service 22 

Officer*  on  service  may  commute  fuel  and  quarters 22 

To  be  examined  by  surgeon  before  closing  enlistment . . .  .VII  38 

REdULATIONS. 

Disbursing  officers  to  comply  strictly  with Ill  12 

Concerning  damaged  powder V  13 

Of  medical  department  coucerniug  surgeons'  reports,  etc. . .  16 

Concerning  number  of  men  in  companies  (Sec.  12) I  30 

Paragraphs  160  and  161  of  army,  are  revoked Ill  48 

REPORTS. 

Ofiicers  of  signal  corps  to  make  quarterly,  to  Adjutant  and 
Inspector -General  of  organization  and  general  opera- 
tions  IX     40 

Chiefs  of  medical,  quartermaster,  commissary,  and  ordnance 
bureaus  to  report  all  able-bodied  men  of  conscript  age  in 
their  employ,  whose  places  can  be  supplied  by  men  unfit 
for  active  duty Ill     67 

Of  deaths  in  army  to  be  made  direct  to  2d  Auditor I     80 

Monthly,  to  be  made  to  commandant  of  conscripts — to  com- 
mandants camps  of  instruction II     82 

Consolidated  monthly,  to  be  made  by  commandant  con- 
scripts to  the  War  department II     82 

Tabular,  to  be  made  to  brigade  commanders,  giving  number 

of  daj's  each  officer  absent,  character,  etc I     03 

REQUISITIONS. 

For  establishment,  etc.,  of  telegraphic  linos,  must  be  address- 
ed to  Postmaster- General Ill     44 

RESIGNATIONS. 

In  Nitre  and  Mining  bureaus  placed  on  same  footing  with 

resignations  in  the  lino  in  front  of  cnvmj' 99 

Of  officers  does  not  exempt  them  from  conscription Ill  107 

RETALIATION. 

Officers  of  Generals  Pope  and  Steinwehr  armies  to  bo  kept  as 

hostages  for  safety  of  Confederate  citizens 64 

Outlawing  General  Felch,  and  setting  aside  officers  of  U.  S. 

A.  for  execution 59 

Outlawing  Generals  Hunter  and  Phelps,  U.  S.  array 60 

Order  against  any  officer  drilling  slaves 60 

Order  against  Colonels  Lowe,  Harding,  and  other  officers  of 

U.  S.  arm) 81 


INDEX.  Xli 

Ccttouncing    Butlor   and  officers,   decreeing  Butler's  death 

if  captured,  and  that  of  officers  of  negro  organisations > . .       Ill 
RETUKNS. 

Of  provisions  to  bo  endorsed  by  officer  receiving I     12 

Regulation  conceruing  provision II     12 

Of  clothing,  etc.,  to  be  made  quarterly  by  company  com- 
manders, etc k...k IV     17 

Of  officers  and  men  distinguished   to  be  made  by  command- 
ing officers  to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General II     52 

Of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  to  bo  made  quarterly 56 

To  bo  made  monthly  by  commanders  of  army  corps,  etc  .  .IV     64 

To  be  made   tri-monthly  by  commandants   of  camps   of  in- 
struction . .  k k . . .  >  k . .  > > IV     64 

In  commissary  department,  to  bo  promptly  examined  by 

commanding  officcrsv^ > Ill     70 

Of  absentees  to   be  made  by  all  commanders  to  department 

head-quarters  .>.> v.> IV     96 

No.    Par.  REVOCATIONS. 

24  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  I,  section  4, 

as  to  ordnance  sergeants. 
24  III     Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  I,  section  1, 

to  permit  appointments  of  brigade  ordnance  officers,  with 

rank  of  first  lieutenant  of  artillery. 

31  II     Modified  so  as  to  make  Augusta,  Georgia,  the  depot  for  said 

articles;  General  Orders,  No.  38,  paragraph  IX,  also  Gen- 
eral Orders,  No.  45,  paragraph  IV. 

32  IV     Modified   by  General   Orders,  No.  45,   series  1863,  so   as  to 

allow  only  a  tico-horte  wagon,  and  also  by  General  Orders, 
No.  61,  paragraph  II,  placing  such  wagons  under  exclusive 
control  of  medical  officers,  etc. 

34  General  Orders,  No.  38,  paragraph  III,  provides  that  battal- 

ion bo  composed  of  soldiers  from  same  state. 

.S6  II  Revoked,  and  General  Orders,  No.  39,  paragraph  I,  substi- 
tuted therefor. 

37  Foreigners  undomiciliatod  also  exempt.  General  Orders,  No. 

38,  paragraph  V. 

41  II  Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  55,  paragraph  I,  which  is 
substituted  in  lieu  thereof. 

44  I  Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  53,  paragraph  III.  Those 
whose  regiments  are  in  the  East  will  report  at  Richmond; 
those  whoso  regiments  arc  in  the  West  at  Vicksburg, 
Mississippi. 

D 


47 

IV 

50 

I 

60 

IV 

Xlii  INDEX. 

44    IV     Rescinded,  and  General   Orders,  No.  46,  paragraph  II,  sub- 
stituted in  liou  thereof. 
E.\plained  by  paragraph  I.  General  Orders,  No.  24.  series  1863. 
Revoked  by  General  Orders  No.  82,  paragraph  IX. 
Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  61,  paragraph  III,  omitting, 
the  words  ^'  especiully  of  arms  and  ordnance  stores." 

56  I  See  also  General  Orders,  No.  66,  paragraph  I,  annulling  all 
proelamations  of  martial  law. 

50  III  E.xplained  by  General  Orders,  No.  67,  paragraph  I.  It  ap- 
plies only  to  paroled  or  exchanged  prisoners  in  hospitals 
without  descriptive  lists. 

58  General  Orders,  No.  65,  paragraph  V,  provides,  in  addition, 

that  medical  officers  forward  weekly,  to  Richmond,  the 
names  of  conscripts  recommended  for  light  duty. 

53  General  Orders,  No.  67,  paragraphs  II  and  III.     Surgeons, 

quartermasters,  and  commissary -generals  will  cause  in- 
spection to  bo  made  in  respective  departments,  of  able- 
bodied  men  subject  to  conscription,  and  will  fill  their  places 
with  those  recommcndgd  for  light  duty. 

61  II     Enlarged,  so  as  to  make  it  also  the  duty  of  quartermasters  to 

kcop  the  ambulances  and  wagons  in  good  condition  and 
ready  for  active  service.  (See  General  Orders,  No.  34, 
series  64,  paragraph  IV.) 

62  II     Amended    by   General    Orders,    No.    64,  paragraph   V,    the 

words  "  and  2}aroled  "  being  omitted. 

64  III     Enlarged  by  General  Orders,  No.  119,  paragraph   IV,  to  ex- 

tend to  slaughtered  sheep. 

65  III     Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  67,  paragraph  I,  extended  by 

General  Orders,  No.  68,  paragraph  I,  to  embrace  all  soldiers 
sick  in  hospitals  or  on  furlough;  amended  by  General  Or- 
ders, No.  105,  paragraph  I,  limiting  such  payments  to 
monthly  pay  of  soldier  mustered  on  hospital  rolls,  and 
specific  directions  to  quartermasters  making  such  payments. 

66  V     Enlarged   so  as  to   include    "furnaces "  worked  by  govern- 

ment officer  within  its  provisions.  (See  General  Orders,  No. 
32,  scries  1863,  paragraph  I.) 

68  I     Enlarged  by  General  Orders,  No.  70,  paragraph  IV,  ordering 

additional  qualifications  for  applicants  for  rank  of  captain 
of  artillery  in  Ordnance  department. 
6S     II     Limited  by  General  Orders,  No.  105,  paragraph  I. 

69  I     Extended  to  include  commanders  of  posts,  senior  surgeons  of 

hospitals,  who  will  make  similar  reports,  so  far  as  they  re- 
late to  their  respective  commands.  (See  General  Orders, 
No.  59,  paragraph  I,  series  1863.) 


INDEX.  xliii 

72  IV  Modified  by  General  Orders,  l^c.  lof,  paragraph  I,  ordering 
that  eurgeona  referred  to  will  not  grant  said  certificates, 
unless  health  of  soldier  requires  his  removal. 

82  II  Sec.  2.  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  96,  paragraph  V, 
ordering  that  commissioned  officers  and  private.'?  incapable 
of  bearing  arms,  be  assigned  to  collecting  stragglers  and 
conscripts. 

82  VI  Sec.  1.  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  101,  paragraph  I, 
further  amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  9,  series  18C3, 
further  modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  15,  series  1863. 

95  Sec.  1.  Increased  by  General  Orders,  No.  62,  paragraph  I,  to 

$1  25. 

96  V     Extended,  bo  as  to  employ  such  persons  as  railroad  gujrrds, 

etc.,  at  request  of  oflBccrs  of  staff  departments,  or  of  local 
military  commanders. 

97  II     Modified  by   General  Orders,  No.  28,  series   1863,  so  as  to 

apply  also  to  "  contractors  with  the  Ordnance  department." 

100  III     Amended  so  as  to  allow  value  of  clothing  to  bo  paid  upon  de- 

scriptive lists  when  soldier  is  absent  with  leave,  and  not  to 
rejoin  his  command  for  siity  days. 

101  I     Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  9,  series  186S,  so  as  to  allow 

the  two  surgeons  to  be  selected  from  the  districts  where  they 
are  to  act,  when  surgeons  ean  not  be^tained  from  their 
congressional  districts;  further  modificaby  General  Orders, 
No.  15,  scries  1863,  so  as  to  allow  commandants  of  con- 
scripts, when  surgeons  can  not  be  ''employed,"  to  consti- 
tute such  boards,  temporarily,  by  medical  officers  under 
their  authority. 
KEVOKING. 

Paragraph   IV,  General   Orders,  No.  44,  current  series,  con- 

ccrning'dischargc  of  persons  under  18  an3  over  35 II     46 

Paragraphs  160  and  161,  Army  Regulations,  concerning 
manner  of  discharging  enlisted  men  on  certificate  of  dis- 
ability  Ill     48 

Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  44,  concerning  paroled 

prisoners Ill     53 

Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  38,  current  series,  con- 
cerning manner  of  signing  soldier's  discharge Ill     66 

Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  41,  current  series,  au- 
thorizing General  Winder  to  grant  discharges IV     69 

Paragraph   V,  General   Orders,  No.  41,  current  series,  con- 
cerning discharge  of  soldiers  in  hospital  in  Richmond. .  .IV     69 
Paragraph   II,  General   Order.i,  No.  31,  current  series,  con- 


Xliv  INDEX. 

earning  transportation  of  breadstuffs  for  committee  of 
public  safety^  New  Orleans ., II     72 

Paragrivpli  IX,  General  Orders,  No.  38,  current  series,  mak- 
ing Augusta  depot  of  sugar  and  molasses II     72 

Clause  3,  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  58,  allowing  re- 
ception of  conscripts  not  equal  to  military  duty II    72 

Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  29,  current  series,  con- 
cerning  substitutes XI    82 

SERVANTS. 

When  slaves,  serving  with  army  without  proper  written 
authority,  to  be  reported  to  War  department  by  regimental 
adjutants I     69 

Not  allowed  issues  of  fuel  and  straw -. VI     66 

SHARP-SnOOTERS. 

Act  to  organize  battalions  of.     April  21,  1862 I  34 

One  battalion  of,  to  each  brigade — how  armed,  by  whom  or- 
ganized    I  34 

Officers  of,  appointed  by  President I  34 

Commanding  generals  may  detail   for  or  transfer  to Ill  34 

Will  be  supplied  with  proper  arms  by  Ordnance  depart- 
ment  IV  34 

Battalions  of,  will  be  composed  of  troops  from  same  state. Ill  38 

SIGNAL  CORPS. 

Act  to  organize.     April  19,  1862 I    40 

Will  be  attached  to  Adjutant-General's  department II     40 

■  An  officer  of  to  be  assigned  to  each  corps  and  division  com- 
mander  Ill     40 

Enlisted  men  may  bo  detailed  by  commanding  generals  for 

duty  in Ill     40 

Non-commissioned   officers   while  on    duty  in,   to    receive 

forty  cents  extra  duty  pay  per  diem Ill     40 

Oath  administered  to  persona  serving  in Ill    40 

Officers  of,  entitled  to  allowances  of  cavalry IV    40 

Men,  when  necessary,  to  be  mounted  by  quartermaster. ..  .IV     40 
Officers  of  Adjutant-General's  department,  etc.,  may  be  in- 
structed in  duties  of VI     40 

Officers  and  non-commissioned  officers,  accepting  appoint- 
ments in,  to  forward  with  acceptance  prescribed  oath.  .VIII     40 

Officers  of,  to  make  returns  of  property IX    40 

Officers  of,  to  make  quarterly  reports  to  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector-General of  organization  and  general  operations, 
etc IX    40 


INDEX.  Xlv 

Officers  of,  to  instruct  regimonfnl  adjutants X     40 

President  authorized  to  appoint  additional  members  of I     93 

STAFF  OFFICERS. 

Of  reorganized   regiments,   commissions  are  not  affected  by 

such  reorganization  except  that  of  adjutant V     34 

Commissions    of,    terminate    on  expiration  of  appropriate 

duties I  48,91 

In  Confederate  army,  holding  higher  line  appointments  in 
Provisional  army,  must  signify  preference,  as  can  not  hold 
bofh 63 

Aids  only  to  be  considered  on  personal  staff II     89 

Other  staff  officers  to  be  regarded  as  part  of  entire  com- 
m.and II     89 

One  additional,  with  rank  of  colonel,  added  to  Adjutant- 
General's  department 93 

STANDARDS. 

Names  of  battles  in  which  regiments,  etc.,  have  been  en- 
gaged, to  be  inscribed  on I     52 

SUBSTITUTES. 

Enlisted  men  not  indebted  to  government  may  furnish I  29 

How  procured I  29 

Not  entitled  to  transportation I  29 

Soldiers  discharged  by  reason  of,  not  entitled  to  transporta- 
tion   I  29,  92 

Enlisted  men  discharged  by  reason  of,  and  indebted  to  gov- 
ernment, officer  granting  discharge  liable  for  debt I  29 

Pay  and  allowances  of  persons  discharged  by  reason  of,   to 

go  to  substitute I  29 

Not  to  exceed  one  per  month  in  each  company I  29 

Persons  liable  to  military  duty,  but  not  mustered  into  ser- 
vice, desiring  to  furnish,  etc ...11  29 

Persons  not  liable  to  duty  may  go  as I  30 

Captains  to  furnish  certificates  of  exemption  to  men  furnish- 
ing   V  37 

Unnaturalized  foreigners  shall  not  be  accepted  as I  47 

Reception  of,  under  18  years,   prohibited II  64,  XI  82 

Reception  of,  into  partisan  rangers  prohibited II  64 

Becoming  liable  to  conscription  render  principal  liable  •..II  64 
Shall  not  be  received  into  companies  before  complete  organi- 
zation and  reception II  64 

Not  entitled  to  be  transferred  to  regiments  from  own  state.   I  72 
Persons  claiming  exemption  on  ground  of  having  furnished. 


Xlvi  INDKX. 

must  exhibit  to  enrolling  officer  discharge,  etc XI  82 

Rccciition  of  undomiciled  foreigners  prohibited XI  82 

i'ersons   subject    to  conscription   before    enrolment   or   as- 
signed to  company,  may  put  in XI  82 

TELEGRAPHS. 

For  establisbmcnt  of  lines,  requisitions,  etc.,   to  be  sent  to 

Postmaster-General Ill     44 

Of  certain  kinds  must  not  be  sent I     78 

TRANSFERS. 

Applications  for,  to  navy  to  be  sent  through  superior  ofliccrs.   I  7 
Native  and  adopted  Marylanders  may  receive  to  "Maryland 

line" II  8 

Seamen  may  obtain  to  navy I  30,  I  82 

No  soldier  can  demand  on  plea  of  re-cnlistment IX  30 

Froqj  line  to  partisan  corps  not  allowed II  43 

Applications  for  from  soldiers  in  Richmond  to  be  made  to 

General  G.  W.  Smith II  70 

To  be  granted  to  soldiers  to  regiments  from  own  state — ap- 
plications for,  how  addressed I  72 

Applications  for,  from  army  to  navy,  how  forwarded I  77 

May  be  granted  to  battalions  of  sharp-shooters Ill  82 

Of  conscripts,  from  military  to  naval  service,  how  effected.  .II  89 
To  be  granted    to   soldiers  to  regiments  from  own  state,  ex- 
cept in  eases  when  applicant  is  a  substitute I  9.S 

Not  allowed  to  substitutes  to  regiments  from  own  state  ....   I  93 
When  granted  by  Secretary  of  War  entitled   to  transporta- 
tion  I  93 

TRANSPORTATION. 

Furnished  to  recruits I  6 

Of  troops  not  to  interfere  with  mail 22 

Furnished  to  recruits 22 

Of  provisions  not  to  be  interfered  with I  31 

One  wagon  for  each  regiment  allowed  exclusively  for  hospi- 
tal  IV  32 

Soldiers  on  sick  furlough  entitled  to IV  48 

Authority    for,  and   for  mileage,  only  emanates  from   com- 
manding general «....V  50 

When  only  allowed  to  artillery  and  cavalry  horses  by  rail- 
road    I  57 

To  be  furnished    General  Huger,  his  aids,  and  assistants,  on 

his  order I  62 

Honorably  discharged  soldiers  to  receive I  70 


INDEX.  xlvii 

Granted  on  certificates  of  company  commander  and  on  sol- 
dier's affidavit I     70 

Allowed  home  and  back  to  furlorfgUed,  sick,  and   wounded 

soldiers •- Ill     74 

Major  A.  II.  Cole  announced    as   inspector-general  of  field 

transportation 76 

Not  granted  to  soldiers  discharged  by  reason  of  substitu- 
tion     92,29 

Allowed  to  agents  for  purchase  of  hospital  supplies I     93 

In  separate  cars,  may  be  furnished  sick  soldiers I     93 

Furnished  men  transferred   by  Secretary  of  War I     9S 

President  authorijied  to  build  railroad  for  purpose  of  mili- 
tary    I     93 

Railroad  under  charge  of  Colonel  Wm.  M.  Wadley 98 

Duties  connected  with,  of  Colonel  Wadley 93 

Tickets  only  to  be  issued  on  conclusive  evidence  of  author- 
ized absence II  105 

Register  to  be  kept  at  each  transportation  office II  105 

VACANCIES. 

When  occurring  among  company  officers  of  reorganized 
regiments,  promotion  of  officer  next  in  rank  to  be  an- 
nounced by  brigade  commanders VI     43 

May  be  filled  by  President  bj*  selection  from  officers  and  men 

specially  distinguished  for  valor,  skill,  etc II     52 

Occurring  by  promotion,  how'  filled I     82 

Caused  by  officers  retired  or  dropped,  how  filled I     93 

WHEAT. 

In  relation  to  exportation  of  seed   from  Virj'inia II     69 


GENERAL  OUDERS,~>  Adjutant  and  lxsrECTon-(lENr.nAt,'s  Office, 

No  1.  )  Richmond,  January  1, 1862. 

I.. The  following  act  of  Congress,  with  regulations  of  the  Secretary 
of  War  thereupon,  is  published  for  the  information  of  the  army: 

Ni).  306 — All  ACT  providing  for  the  granting  of  Bounty  and  Fnrlonghs  to  Privates 
and  Non-commissioned  Oflicers  in  the  Provisional  army. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  en- 
act, That  a  bounty  of  fifty  dollars  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  granted 
to  all  privates,  musicians,  and  non-commissioned  officers  in  the  Pro- 
visional army  who  shall  serve  continuously  for  three  years,  or  foj  the 
war  —  to  be  paid  at  the  following  times,  to  wit:  to  all  now  iu  the  ser- 
vice for  twelve  months,  to  be  paid  at  the  time  of  volunteering  or  enlist- 
ing for  the  next  two  ensuing  years  subsequent  to  the  expiration  of  their 
present  term  of  service.  To  all  now  in  the  service  for  three  years,  or 
for  the  war,  to  be  paid  at=the  e.\piration  of  their  first  year's  service. 
To  all  who  may  hereafter  volunteer  or  enlist  for  three  years,  or  for  the 
war,  to  be  paid  at  the  time  of  entry  into  service. 

Skc.  2.  And  he  it  further  enacted,  That  furloughs,  not  exceeding 
sixty  days,  with  transportation  home  and  back,  shall  be  granted  to  all 
twelve  months  men  now  in  service,  who  shall,  prior  to  the  expiration  of 
their  present  term  of  service,  volunteer  or  enlist  for  the  next  two 
ensuing  years,  sub.sequent  to  the  expiration  of  their  present  term  of 
service,  or  for  three  years,  or  the  war.  Said  furloughs  to  be  issued  at 
such  times  and  in  such  numbers  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  deem 
most  compatible  with  the  public  interest —  the  length  of  each  furlough 
being  regulated  with  reference  to  the  distance  of  each  volunteer  from 
his  home:  Provided,  That,  iijliou  of  a  furlough,  the  commutation 
value,  iu  mouej',  of  the  transportation  heroin  above  granted,  shall  be 
paid  to  each  private,  musician,  or  non-commissioned  ollicer  who  may 
elect  to  receive  it,  at  such  time  as  the  furlough  itself  would  otherwise 
be  granted. 

Sec.  'i.  This  act  shall  applj'  to  all  troops  who  have  volunteered  or 
enlisted,  for  a  term  of  twelve  months  or  more,  in  the  service  of  any 
state  who  are  now  in  the  service  of  the  said  state,  and  who  may  here- 
after volunteer  or  enlist  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  under 
the  provisions  of  the  present  act. 

Sec.  4.  And  he  it  further  enacted.  That  all  troops  revolunteering  or 
re-enlisting  shall,  at  the  expiration  of  their  pr6f?6nt  term  of  service,' 


liavc  the  power  to  reorganize  themselves  into  coinjninies,  inid  elect  their 
company  officer?;  and  said  companies  shall  have  the  power  to  organize 
themselves  into  battalions  or  regiments,  and  elect  their  field  officers; 
and,  after  the  first  election,  all  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  promotion 
from  the  compaDy,  battalion,  or  regiment  in  which  such  vacancies  may 
occur :  Provider/,  That  whenever  a  vacancy  shall  occur,  whether  by 
promotion  or  otherwise,  in  the  lowest  grade  of  commissioned  officers  of 
a  company,  said  vacancy  shall  always  be  filled  by  election:  And  pro- 
vided, further,  That  in  the  case  of  troops  which  have  been  regularly 
enlisted  into  the  service  of  any  particular  state  prior  to  the  formation 
of  the  Confederacy,  and  which  have  by  such  state  been  turned  over  to 
the  Confederate  government,  the  officers  shall  not  be  elected,  but  ap- 
pointed and  promoted  in  the  same  manner  and  by  the  same  authority 
as  tbuy  have  heretofore  been  appointed  and  promoted.  [Approved  De- 
cember 11,  1861.] 

II.  .(Jiiptains  or  commanding  officers  of  twelve  months  men  wjll, 
under  direction  of  regimental  and  battalion  commanders,  make  out 
duplicate  muster  rolls  of  their  companies,  noting  opposiife  the  name  of 
each  man  desiring  to  renew  his  enlistnicii4^for  two  years  from  the  ex- 
piration of  his  present  term  of  service  the  following  remark — "  Enlist- 
ment extended  for  two  years  — bounty  due,  $50  "  —  inserting  the  date 
of  the  remark. 

As  soon  as  the  intention  of  each  man  is  thus  ascertained,  report  will 
be  made  to  the  commanding  officer  of  the  army  in  which  the  troops 
are  serving.  The  commanding  officer  will  thereupon  cause  his  Inspect- 
or-Generals, or  other  officers  assigned  for  that  purpose,  to  verify  the 
rolls,  and  muster  into  service,  for  said  additional  term,  all  that  are 
fitted  for  service.  One  of  the  rolls,  thus  verified,  and  certified  by  the 
inspecting  officers,  will  be  sent  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 
The  other  will  be  given  to  the  company  commander,  from  which  to 
make  out  further  muster  rolls. 

III.  .AVhcnevcr  the  number  of  men  in  a  company  who  re-enlist 
slyijl,, suffice  to  form  a  new  company,  according  to  the  number  required 
by  law,  the  men  thus  re-cnlisted  shall  have  the  right  immediately  to 
rQoicgani.Ke  themselves  into  a  company,  and  elect  their  company  officers 
T— .remaining  attached  to  the  regiment  or  battalion  to  which  they 
belong  until  tbe  cxjiiralion  of  the  twelve  months  of  the  original  enlist- 
rueut. 

IV.  .If  the  number  of  men  rc-eulisted  in  any  company  be  insufficient 
to  form  a  now  company,  their  original  organization  will  be  preserved 
until  within  twenty  days  of  the  expirati(Ai  of  their  term  ;  at  which  date 


3 

all  the  twelve  nioiitlis  meu  who  hiivo  rc-culisted  will  proceed  to  organ- 
ize themselves  afresh  into  new  compauics,  and  eleet  their  company 
officers. 

V.  .AVhenever  all  the  companies  now  forming  a  battalion  or  regiment 
shall  have  reorganized  themselves  into  new  companies,  they  shall  have 
the  right  of  reorganizing  themselves  at  once  into  a  new  battalion  or 
regiment,  as  the  case  may  be,  electing  their  field  oliicers,  as  allowed 
by  law.  But  if  any  one  company  of  any  battalion  or  regiment  declines 
ti)  reorganize  itself,  the  present  organization  will  remain  until  within 
twenty  days  of  the  expiration  of  the  present  term;  at  which  time  all 
re-enlistcd  companies  will  proceed  immediately  to  organize  themselves 
into  new  regiments,  and  elect  their  field  officers,  as  provided  by  law. 

VI.  .AH  re-enlistcd  companies  which  maj'  fail,  within  the  last  twenty 
days  of  their  present  terms,  to  reorganize  themselves  into  regiments  or 
battalions,  will  be  considered  as  independent  companies  re-enlisted  for 
the  war,  and  will  be  organized  into  battalions  or  regiments  by  the 
President,  and  their  field  officers  appointed  by  him  in  the  same  manner 

as  is  provided  by  law  for  .all  other  independent  companies. 

• 

VII.. The  furlough  allowed  by  law,  and  directed  to  be  regulated 
according  to  the  distance  of  each  volunteer  from  his  home,  is  estab- 
lished as  follows,  viz:  to  each  volunteer  there  will  bo  allowed  a  fur- 
lough of  full  thirty  days  at  home,  to  which  will  bo  added  bj'  the 
commanding  officer  of  the  army  a  number  of  days  estimated  to  be 
suflicient  to  allow  the  volunteer  to  travel  lipme  and  back.  But  in  no 
case  will  the  furlough  exceed  sixty  days,  even  for  those  most  distant 
from  their  h«mes. 

VIII... Commanding  officers  are  directed  to  commence  as  soon  as 
possible  granting  the  furloughs  allowed  as  above,  in  such  numbers  as 
may  be  deemed  compatible  with  the  safety  of  their  commands,  giving 
preference,  as  far  as  practicable,  to  the  men  in  the  order  of  their 
ro-enlistmcnt. 

IX.. The  bounty  of  fifty  dollars  will  be  paid  to  each  man  when  ho 
receives  his  furlough,  at  which  time  his  transportation  will  also  bo 
furnished. 

X..Each  man  entitled  to  furlough  may  receive  instead  thereof  the 
commutation  v.alue  of  his  transportation,  in  addition  to  the  bounty  of 
fifty  dollars  provided  by  law. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  a)i(f  /nspecfor-Genrral. 


GKNERAL  ORDERS.)  WAR  DKI'ARTMEXT. 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Omcf, 

No.  2.  )  Richmond,  January  6,  18G2. 

I.. The  follo'win^  act  of  Congres?,  and  regulations  in  reference 
thereto,  are  published  for  the  iuformation  of  the  army  : 

An  act  for  the  R4cruiting  Service  of  the  Provisional  army  of  the  Con- 
federate States. 

Sec.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact.  That  the  Secretiuy  of 
War  be  and  he  is  hereby  autliorized  to  adopt  measures  for  recruiting  aud  oulisting 
men  for  companies  for  service  in  tlio  war.  or  three  years,  whicli  by  the  casualties 
of  the  service  have  been  reduced  by  death  and  discharges. 

Sec.  2,  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  tlie  Secretary  of  War  be  and  he  is  liereby 
authorized  to  detail  the  company  commiasioncd  officers  for  the  above  duty,  in  such 
numbers  anH  at  such  times  as  in  liis  opinion  will  best  comport  with  tlic  public 
service.  The  officers  thus  appointed,  to  enlist  and  rocruit  for  tlieir  respective 
companies.    [Approved  December  19,  1861.] 

II.  .Commanding  officers  of  all  war  regiments,  battalions,  squadrons, 
and  independent  companies  will  detail  for  recriiiting  service,  subject  to 
approval  of  the  commanding  officer  of  the*  army  with  which  they  are 
serving,  a  subaltern  and  one  non-commissioned  officer  or  private  from 
each  war  companj'  below  the  minimum  organization,  with  instructions 
to  proceed  to  the  neighborhood  where  his  company  was  raised,  and  there 
enlist  recruits  to  raise  the  company  to  the  ma.ximum  organization. 

III.  .Officers  detailed  for  recruiting  service  will  make  requisitions  on 
the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  for  recruiting  funds,  reporting  the 
station  to  which  they  have  been  ordered,  the  company  and  regiment 
for  which  they  have  been  directed  to  recruit,  and  the  post-town,  county, 
and  state  to  which  letters  for  them  should  be  addressed.  A  similar 
report  should  also  be  made  to  the  Commissni'y  and  Quartermaster's 
departments,  in  order  that  the  required  in.stniotions  may  issue  to  the 
proper  officers  of  these  departments  to  fill  the  rof(uisitions  necessary  for 
such  recruiting  purposes. 

IV.  .As  soon  as  possible  after  the  enlistment  of  a  recruit,  he  shall  be 
inspected  by  a  commissioned  surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  and  if  unfit  for  service  shall  bo  rejected.  lu  all  cases 
this  inspection  shall  take  place  before  the  recruit  leaves  the  state  in 
which  he  is  enlisted. 

v.. A  commutation  for  rations,  at  the  rate  of  twenty-five  cents  per 
ration,  shall  be  allowed  to  each  recruit  from  the  date  of  his  enlistment 
until  ho  is  supplied  regularly  with  subsistence  by  an  officer  of  the  Com- 
missary department. 


VI.. No  clothing  nor  commutation  for  clothing  will  be  allowed  a 
recruit  until  after  inspection.  As  soon  as  possible  after  inspection  and 
muster,  the  recruit  will  be  supplied  with  clothing,  or  commutation 
therefor,  by  the  nearest  quartermaster,  in  accordance  with  regulations. 

VII.. The  time  allowed  for  recruiting  will  in  no  case  extend  beyond 
thirty  days,  at  the  expiration  wheix'of  the  recruiting  party,  with  the 
enlisted  men,  will  proceed  ^o  join  their  company. 

VIII.  .OflSeers  in  charge  of  recruiting  parties  will  keep  a  strict  ac- 
count of  the  disbursements  made  by  theni  of  monej's  placed  in  their 
hands  for  the  recruiting  service,  taking  duplicate  receipts  for  every 
item  of  expenditure ;  one  set  of  these  receipts  will  be  retained  by  the 
officer  for  his  security ;  the  other  set,  with  an  account  current,  will,  at 
the  expiration  of  the  recruiting  term,  be  transmitted  to  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector- General  'for  final  settlement  at  the  treasury.  These 
vouchers  and  accounts  current,  addressed  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspect- 
or-General, will  be  marked  on  the  upper  right-hand  corner  of  the  en- 
velop which  covers  tlieni,  "Becntitiny  Service." 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GEXERAL  OKDKKS,-)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspkctor-General's  Office, 

No.  3.  )  Richmond,  Januari/  9, 1862. 

I.. The  following  order  of  Major-General  Bragg  is  adopted  by  the 
War  department,  and  is  republished  for  the  information  and  govern- 
ment of  the  army: 

1.  To  insure  proper  economy  in  the  ailininistrittiou  of  our  military  affairs  is  as 
necessary  to  tlie  success  of  our  cause  as  the  tlcfeat  of  oiu-  enemy.  All  command- 
ers and  disbursing  oflict-rs  in  this  department  will  be  required  to  give  their  closest 
attention  to  expenditures,  seeing  they  are  necessary,  and  in  conformity  to  law.  A 
rigid  scrutiny  will  be  made  by  the  Commanding  tienernl  and  the  chiefs  of  his  staft", 
.and  abuses  will  be  promptly  exposctj  and  checked. 

In  location  of  troops,  commanders  and  quaiterniasters  will  consult  economy 
and  eflSciency.  The  vicinity  of  cities  and  towns  will  be  avoided  as  far  as  possible, 
in  order  to  seciu'c  health,  and  escape  the  demoralizing  effects  of  dissipation. 
Rents  will  not  be  i)ai(i  unless  absolutelj'  necessary.  Fuel  will  bo  sujiplicd  as  far  as 
practicable  by  the  labor  of  the  troops,  encampments  being  selected  with  this  view. 
And  woiks  of  dt-fence,  and  huts  for  the  winter,  will  be  built  by  the  labor  of  sol- 
diers—officers  being  required,  in  all  instances,  to  remain  with  and  share  the  duties 
of  their  men. 


« 

•2.  Commanders  of  all  giiKles  arc  earnestly  called  upon  to  suppress  drunkcnucsis 
by  every  means  in  tlicir  power.  It  is  the  cause  of  nearly  every  evil  from  wliicli 
wo  suffer;  the  largest  portion  of  our  sickness  and  mortality  results  from  it;  our 
guard-houses  are  filled  by  it;  officers  are  constantly  called  from  their  duties  to 
form  courts  martial  in  consequence  of  it;  inefficiency  in  our  troops,  and  conse- 
quent danger  to  our  cause,  is  the  inevitable  result.  No  one  is  benefited  but  the 
miserable  wretch  who  is  too  cowardly  to  defend  a  country  ho  is  willing  to  sell  by 
destroying  those  noble  faculties  ho  has  never  possessed.  Gallant  soldiers  should 
scorn  to  yield  to  such  temptations — and  intelligent  and  honorable  officers  should 
set  them  an  example.  Tliey  should  be  encouraged  to  send  to  their  families  and 
friends  the  pay  they  receive  for  their  services,  instead  of  wasting  it  in  their  own 
destruction,  and  at  tlie  risk  of  the  holy  cause  in  which  they  are  engaged.  Small 
as  the  amount  is,  it  will  cause  many  a  dear  one  to  rise  up  and  call  them  blessed. 

'•Give  strong  drink  unto  him  that  is  ready  to  perish,  and  wine  to  those  that  be 
of  heavy  heart"  —  but  for  us.  the  glorious  cause  in  which  we  are  engaged  should 
furnish  all  the  excitement  and  enthusiasm  necessary  for  our  success. 

The  enemy,  in  large  and  increasing  numbers,  is  upon  our  coasts.  Let  us  cease 
all  amusements  and  frivolities,  and  prepare  diligently  to  meet  him  in  defence  of 
our  homes,  our  firesides,  and  our  altars, 

II.. The  introduction  of  spirituous  liquors  iutd  any  camp,  barrack, 
or  station  of  the'army,  except  for  medicinal  purpose.?,  duly  recom- 
mended by  the  senior  medical  officer  and  approved  by  the  General  or 
other  officer  in  command,  is  hereby  expressly  prohibited;  and  all  spir- 
ituous liquors  found  in  any  of  said  camps,  barracks,  or  stations,  not  ■ 
authorized  as  above,  will  be  confiscated  or  destroyed,  under  direction 
of  the  General  or  other  oiSccr  in  command. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL, ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  4.  J  Richmond,  January  24,  18C2. 

The  following  regulation  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned : 

Foruije  Cap  for  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Pattern — Of  the  form  known  as  the  French  kepi:  to  be  made  of 
cloth. 

For  General  Officers  and  Officers  of  the  General  Staff  and  Engineers — 
Dark  blue  band,  sides,  and  crown. 

For  the  Artillery — Dark  blue  band:  sides  and  crown  red. 

For  the  Infantry — l)ark  blue  band:  sides  and  crown  light  blue. 

For  the  Cavalry — Dark  blue  band:  side.s  and  crown  yelluw. 


Jfavks  to  distinyuiah  Raul: 

Four  gold  braids  for  General  Officers;  tbroc  for  Field  Officers;  two 
for  Captains;  and  one  for  Jjieutcnants;  to  extend  from  the  band  on  the 
front,. back,  and  both  sides  to  the  top  of  the  cap — :and  the  centre  of  the 
crown  to  be  embroidered  with  the  same  number  of  braids. 

For  enlisted  men — The  cap  will  be  of  the  same  pattern  :  the  band  to 
be  dark  blue,  and,  as  in  the  case  of  officers,  the  several  arms  of  service 
will  be  designated  by  the  color  of  the  sides  and  crown  —  red  for  Artil- 
lery; light  blue  for  Infantry;  and  yellow  for  Cavalry.  The  number  of 
the  regiment  will  be  worn  in  front,  in  yellow  metal. 

In  hot  Weather,  a  white  duck,  or  linen  cover,  known  as  a  havelock, 
will  be  worn  —  the  apron  to  fall  behind,  so  as  to  protect  the  ears  and 
neck  from  the  rays  of  the  sun.  In  winter,  in  bad  weather,  an  oil-skin 
cover  will  bo  worn,  with  an  apron  to  fall  over  the  coat-collar. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
A<ljiih(nt  und  Inspectur-GtHerul. 


QENER.\L  OHDEHS,)  WAR    DKPARTMKNT. 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  5.  J  ]UCHMUNi).  January  20,  1S62. 

I.  .At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Camp  Yancej',  Arkan- 
sas, by  General  Orders,  No.  18,  18G1,  from  Brigadier-General  Benjamin 
McCulloch's  head-quarters,  whereof  Major  Robert  W.  Harper,  Ar- 
kansas Rifles,  was  President,  was  arraigned  and  tried  Lieutenant  David 
A.  Alexander,  Napoleon  Cavalry,  Colonel  Churchill's  regiment  Arkansas 
volunteers,  C.  S.  A.,  on  the  following  charge  and  specification: 

Charge. 

Talcing  the.  life  of  Private  Win.  Finerti/,  of  the  Napoleon  Cavalry,  of  the  regiment 
of  Arkansas  Mounted  lUflemen. 

Specification In  tliis;  "Tliiit  Lieutenant  Datid  A.  Alexander,  Napoleon  Caval- 
ry, of  Arkansas  Volunteers,  diJ  stab,  kill,  and  murilor  Private  Win.  Finerty, 
of  the  company  and  rogimont  above  meiitionecl,  ou  the  evening  of  June  2S, 
1861,  near  Vort  Smitli,  in  tlie  County  of  Subastiaii,  State  of  Arkansas." 

Findings  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  finds  the  accused.  Lieutenant  David  A.  Alexander,  of  Napoleon  Cav- 
alry, of  the  regiment  of  Arkansas  Mounted  Riflemen,  as  follows:  "Guilty  of  man- 
blaugliter." 

And  the  court  does,  therefore,  sentence  him.  the  said  Lieuten.aut  David  .i.  Alex- 
ander, of  Napoleon  Cavalry,  of  the  regiment  of  Arkansas  Mounted  Riflemen,  '-to 
be  oiMhiered,  and  dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  Ctilifeilerate  States  of  America." 


II.. The  proceedings  of  the  General  Court  Martial  in  the  foregoing 
case  hare  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him  laid 
before  the  President,  by  -whom  thoy  are  approved.  Lieutenant  David 
A.  Alexander  accordingly  ceases  to  be  an  officer  of  the  Provisional 
army  of  the  Confederate  States  from  this  date. 

III.  .The  General  Court  Martial  of  which  Major  Robert  W.  Harp- 
KH,  Arkansas  Rifles,  was  President  is  dissolved. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War.    - 

S.   COOPER, 
Aitjutinit  and  Lispector-GeiieraK 


GKNERAL  ORDKRS.")  MAR  PEPAUTMKNT, 

J-  Adjutant  and  Tn'speotor-Gkneral's  Office, 

Nit.  0.  J  Richmond,  February  12, 1802. 

l..Thc  following'  acts  of  Congress,  and  regulations  in  reference 
thereto,  are  published  fur  the  information  of  the  army  : 

An  act  for  tliv  Jiecruithif/  Service  of  the  Provisi'omil  army  of  the  Con- 
federute  States. 

Skc.  1.  Tlie.  Covgresx  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact,  Tliat  the  Secretary  of 
War  be  and  he  in  hereby  authorized  to  adopt  measures  for  recruiting  and  enlisting 
men  for  rnmpiinies  for  service  in  tlie  war,  or  tlnee  years,  which  by  the  casualties 
of  the  service  have  been  reduced  by  death  and  discharges. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Secretary  of  War  be  and  he  is 
hereby  nufhmized  to  detail  the  company  commissioned  officers  for  the  above  duty, 
in  such  niimt)crs  and  .at  .siich  times  as  in  his  opinion  will  best  comport  with  the 
public  service.  The  officers  thus  appointed,  to  enlist  and  recruit  for  their  respective 
companies.    [Approved  December  19, 1861.] 

Sec.  .j.  Any  vacancy  occurring  in  tlie  ranks  of  companies  mustered  into  the  " 
Confederate  service  for  three  years,  or  for  the  war.  may  be  tilled  by  volunteers; 
nnd  the  commander  of  each  of  said  squadrons,  battalions,  or  regiments,  organized 
Ei  aforesaid  may  detail  one  commi-ssioned  officer  ami  One  non-commissioned  officer, 
and  one  i>r  more  privates  from  each  company  of  his  coiinnand,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Brigadier-General  of  the  brigade  to  which  said  squadron.  Itattalion,  or  regi- 
ment may  be  attached,  to  recruit  men  for  such  company;  so  that  the  same  may 
contain  not  more  tlian  one  hundred  and  twetity-tive,  rank  and  file ;  and  the  men  so 
recruited  shall  be  mustered  at  the  time  of  enrolment,  and  shall  bo  entitled  to 
transportation  .and  subsistence,  or  commutation  of  subsistence,  till  they  join  their 
respective  companies,  and  to  fifty  dollars  bounty,  to  be  paid  at  the  time  of  joining 
the  same.     [.3d  Sec.  of  act  28th  .January,  No.  .^.^li.! 


y 

An  act  to  jifoviile  for  Jleeruitintj  Companies  ixnc  in  the  scro're  of  the 
Confederate  Staten  for  twelve  monthn. 
Sec.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  Amrrica  do  enart.  That  all 
conipanie.s  of  volunteers,  now  in  tlio  sorvico  of  tlie  Confeili'iate  Stales  np<lcr  en- 
listment for  tlir  term  of  twelve  months,  may  bo  recruitcil  liy  enlisting,  or  receiving 
volunteers  for  three  years  or  the  war,  to  a  number  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five,  rank  and  tile;  and  comiianios  .so  recruited  shall,  at  the  expiration  of 
the  term  of  service  of  the  original  company,  elect  their Cimimissioned  officers;  and 
vacancies  thereafter  occurring  in  the  commissioned  otfices  of  such  companies 
shall  be  filled  by  promotion  of  siiid  commissioned  officers,  except  that  vacancies  in 
tlie  lowest  grade  of  such  offices  shall  be  filled  by  election. 

Sec.  2.  The  colonel  or  commanding  officer  of  the  several  regiments,  battalions, 
and  squ.adrons  enlisted  for  twelve  months  as  .aforesaid,  may  detail  one  commis- 
sioned officer  and  not  exceeding  two  privates  of  each  comp.any,  to  recruit  for 
tlicir  respective  companies;  and  the  officers  and  privates  .so  detailed  shall  be  un- 
titled to  transportation  while  so  engaged,  and  the  recruits  so  enlisted  shall  be 
entitled  to  pay,  transportation,  and  subsistence  from  the  time  and  place  of  enlist- 
ment, together  with  the  8>nn  of  fifty  dollars,  as  a  bounty,  upon  joining  their 
respective  companies. 

Sec.  3.  The  origfnal  volunteers  in  such  comjianies  rc-enlisting  according  to  the 
tijrmsof  the  .act  entitled  an  act  providing  for  the  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs 
to  privates  and  non-commissioned  officers  in  the  Provisional  army,  may  re-enlist  in 
and  form  pajt  of  the  companies  to  bo  recruited  as  herein  provided  ;  and  when  all 
the  companies  composing  the  regiment,  battalion,  or  squadron  ius  aforesaid,  shall; 
by  recruiting  as  aforesaid,  or  by  ro-cniistment  and  recruiting  as  aforesaid,  have 
attained,  at  the  date  of  the  expiration  of  the  terra  of  service  of  the  original  com- 
p.anies,  the  number  required  by  law  for  a  company,  the  number  and  designation  of 
such  regiment,  battalion,  or  squadron,  may  continue,  or  such  of  said  companies  as 
are  complete  at  that  date  may  reorganize  into  new  regiments,  battalions,  or  squad- 
rons, or  attach  themselves  toother  regiments,  battalions,  or  squadrotis;  and  in  all 
such  cases  the  field  olficers  shall  bo  elected,  ijnd  vacancies  thereafter  occurring  in 
such  field  offices  shall  bo  filled  by  promotion,  as  directed  by  the  act  .afores.aid. 

Sec.  4.  Companies  organized  by  re-enlisted  twelve  months  volunteers  Under 
the  act  afrfiesaid  may  bo  recruited  to  the  number  of  one  hundred  aijd  twenty-fivo, 
in  the  manner  prescribed  in  the  second  section  of  this  act. 

Sec.  5.  'Whevc,  at  the  d.ate  of  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  service  of  tlie  origi- 
nal company,  the  number  of  recruits  and  enlisted  men  may  not  amount  to  I  ho 
minimum  number  required  for  a  company,  the  recruited  men  may  combine  with 
recruits  of  other  companies  in  like  situation,  sfi  as  to  foim  complete  companies; 
and.  in  default  of  such  combination,  the  said  recruits  may  bo  assigned  or  distrib- 
uted to  other  companies  from  the  state  in  which  such  recruits  were  enlisted. 

Sec.  6.  The  Secretary  of  War  shall  make  all  needful  rules  to  carry  into  effect 
the  foregoing  provisions.     [Approved  .January  27.  1862.] 

II.  .Commanding  officers  of  all  war  and  twelve  months  regimcnt.s, 
battalion.s,  squadrons,  and  independent  comi)auies,  or    three   months 


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volunteers  now  in  service,  will  detail  for  recruiting  ser.vice,  subject  to 
jxpproviil  of  the  Brigadier-Cicncral  of  the  brigade  >Mth  which  they  arc 
serving,  a  commissioned  orticcr  and  one  non-commissioned  officer  or 
private  from  each  companj'  below  the  maximum  organization  (one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  men),. with  instructions  to  proceed  to  the  neigh- 
borhood where  his  company  was  raised,  and  there  enlist  recruits  to 
raise  the  company  to  the  maximum  organization. 

III.  .OflBcers  detailed  for  recruiting  service  will  make  requisitions  on 
the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  for  recruiting  funds,  reporting  the 
station  to  which  they  have  been  ordered,  the  compan3'  and  regiment  for 
which  they  have  been  directed  to  recruit,  and  the  post-town,  county,- 
and  state  to  which  lettcu'S  for  them  should  be  addressed.  A  similar 
report  should  also  be  made  to  the  Commissary  and  Quartermaster's 
departments,  in  order  that  the  required  instructions  may  issue  to  the 
proper  ofiBccrs  of  these  departments  to  fill  the  requisitions  necessary, 
for  such  recruiting  purposes. 

IV.  .As  soon  as  possible  after  the  enlistment  of  a  recruit,  he  shall  be 
inspected'by  a  commissioned  surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  and  if  unfit  for  service  shall  be  rejected.  In  all  cases 
this  inspection  shall  take  place  before  the  recruit  leaves  the  state  in 

which  he  is  enlisted. 

I 
v.. A  commutation  for  rations,  at  the  rate  of  twenty-five  cents  per 
ration,  shall  be  allowed  to  each  recruit  from  the  date  of  his  enlistment 
until  he  is  supplied  regularly  with  subsistence  by  an  officer  of  the  Com- 
missary department. 

"VI.  .No  clothing  nor  commutation  for  clothing  will  be  allowed  a  re- 
cruit until  after  inspection.  As  soon  as  possible  after  inspection  and 
muster,  the  recruit  will  be  supplied  with  clothing,  or  commutation 
therg for,  by  the  nearest  quartermaster,  in  accordance  with  regulations. 

VII.  .The  time  allowed  for  recruiting  will  in  no  case  extent  beyond 
thirty  days;  at  the  expiration  whereof  t&e  recruiting  party,  with  the 
enlisted  men,  will  proceed  to  join  their  company. 

VIII.. Offices  in  charge  of  recruiting  parties  will  keep  a  strict 
account  of  the  disbursements  made  by  them  of  moneys  placed  in  their 
hands  for  the  recruiting  service,  taking  duplicate  receipts  for  every 
item  of  expenditure;  one  set  of  these  receipts  will  be  retained  by  the 
officer  for  his  security;  the  other  set,  with  an  account  current,  will,  at 
the  expiration  of  the  recruiting  term,  bo  transmitted  to  the  Adjutant 
and   Inspector-General   for  final   settlement  at  the   treasury. ,  These 


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vouchers  and  accounts  currcut,  addressed  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspect- 
or-General, will  be  marked,  on  the  upper  right-hand  corner  of  the 
envelop  which  covers  them,  ''  Retrnilin;/  Service."  ■ 
By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

•  S.  COOPER, 

AJjiitant  and  Inspeclor-Ueneraf^ 


GKNKRAL  ORDKKS.)    .  AVAR  DEPAKTMKNT. 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

■  No.  7.  j  Richmond,  February  18,  1862. 

I.  .At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Staunton,  Va..  by  virtue 
of  General  Order.s  No.  24,  of  January  24,  1862,  from  the  Adjutant  antf 
luspector-Geueral's  office,  whereof  Liouten'ant-Colonel  G.  AV.  Carr, 
57th  llcgimeut  Virginia  Volunteers,  was  President,  was  arraigned  and 
tried  Captain  W.  B.  Bruce,  of  Company  K,  20th  Regiment  Virginia 
Volunteers,  on  the  following  charge  and  specification  : 

Charqe. 
Disobedience  of  orders. 

Specification "That  he,  Captiiiu   \V.  B.  Bruce,  of  Compa.uy  K,  20th  UeKiniont 

A'irginia  Volunteers,  did  fiul  to  have  a  guard  placed  at  the  governiiieiit 
stables,  after  having  been  twice  oi'deiod  by  Lisutenant-Colonel  M.  G.IIar- 
ni.an.  the  comman<litig  officer  of  the  piwt,  to  do  so."  This  at  or  near  Stauu- 
tou,  Va.,  OH  or  about  the  ITtli  of  December,  l,Stil. 

I'lNMNUS   AND   SENTENCE   OF   THE  COURT. 

The  court  tinds  the  accused.  Captain  Win.  B.  Bruce,  Company  K,  20th  Regin\ent 
Virginia  Volunteers,  guilty  of  the  specification  and  guilty  of  the  charge,  aud  does, 
therefore,  sentence  him,  the  said  C.iptaiu  Wm.  B.  Bruce,  "to  bo  rcprim.inded  in 
orders  by  the  Secretary  of  War."' 

II.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  submitted  to 
the  Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him  laid  before  the  President,  are  by  him 
approved. 

The  court  have  accompanied  their  sentence  with  the  remark  that 
they  are  "thus  lenient"  because  it  appears  from  the  evidence  that  Cap- 
tain Bruce  had  not  for  duty  men  sufficient  in  number  to  furnish  the 
sentinels  required  with  the  usual  tours,  iu  addition  to  those  already  on 
guard.  That  he  stated  this  fact,  and  asked  and  was  expecting  further 
information.  The  court  thus  appears  to  have  availed  themselves  of 
the  only  excuse  that  can  bo  fouud  for  the  serious  and  reprehensible 
neglect  of  Capfain  IJrucc,  resulting  as  it  has,  not  only  in  great  loss  of 


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public  pi-o]icrty,  but  in  the  open  exhibition  of  carelessness  and  inatten- 
tion to  duty  which  deserves  and  receives  as  its  lightest  punishment 
the  emphatic  rebuke  of  the  department. 

III.. The  General  Court  Martial  of  which  Lieutenant-Colonel  G.  AV. 
IpVRR,  57th  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers,  is  President  is  dissolved. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Goieral. 


lENKEAL  ORDERS,"!'  WAR  DKl'ARTMENT, 

Adjutant  and  Inspeotor-Ueneral's  Office, 
Richmond,  February  20, 1862. 


I 


I.  .The  following  act  of  Congress,  with  regulations  of  the  Secretai-y 
of  War  thereupon,  is  published  for  the  information  of  the  army  : 

An  act  to  authorize  and  provide  for  the  Organization  of  the  Maryland 

Line. 

Sec.  1.  The  Cvngress  of  the  Confederate  Stat-es  of  America  do  enact,  That  all 
native  or  adopted  citizens  of  the  State  of  Maryland  who  have  heretofore  volun- 
teered, are  now  in,  or  may  hereafter  vohinteer  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate 
States,  may,  at  their  option,  be  organized  and  enrolled  into  companies,  squadrons, 
battalions,  and  regiments,  and,  with  the  Fij-st  Maryland  regiment,  and  several 
companies  now  in  service,  into  one  or  more  brigades,  to  be  known  as  the  Maryland 
Line:  said  organization  to  be  in  accordance  with  existing  laws.  [Approved  Feb- 
ruary 15, 1862.J 

II.. In  accordance  with  the  requirements  of  the  above  act,  all  Mary- 
landers  now  in  service  in  the  military  organizations,  other  than  that  of 
the  First  Maryland  regiment,  will,  upon  application  (proper  evidence 
setting  forth  the  fact  that  they  are  native  or  adopted  Marylanders 
being  furnished),  be  transferred  to  the  First  Maryland  regiment;  or, 
where  the  numbers  are  sufficient,  may  be  organized  into  companies, 
squadrons,  battalions,  or  regiments,  which,  with  the  First  Maryland 
regiment,  will  be  formed  into  brigades,  to  be  known  as  the  Maryland 
Line. 

III.. Col.  GKOitGn  IT.  Stew.vrt,  now  commanding  the  First  Mary- 
land regiment,  is  assigned-  to  this  duty  of  organization,  re-enlisting 
for  his  own  regiment,  and  reorganizing  from  the  material  obtained  by 


cnlistiuents  aud  tr;insfcrs  in  accurdanec  with  the  roregoing  law  —  hav- 
ing command  of  the  whole. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.    COOPER, 
Aifjiilaiil  mid  /nupector-Grncral. 

APJUTANT    and    iNSrECTOR-GENEKAL'S   OFFICE, 

lilcuMOND,  March  18.  186'J. 
Transfers  above  indicated  I)cing  reqinred  by  law,  applications  therefor,  prop- 
erly vouclied,  will  be  made  by  Conimanding  (icnerals  of  dopartnicuts  with  wlinm 
the  particK  are  serving. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

JR.  H.  CHILTON, 
AasialaiU  Adjii tout- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  WAR  PEPAjri'MENT. 

V  APJUTANT   AND   ]NSPECTOU-(tEN'ERAI.'S   OFFKE, 

No.  9.  )  Richmond,  March  I,  1862. 

I.. The  following  proclamation  of  the  President  is  published  for  the 
information  of  all  concerned  : 

PROCLAMATION. 
By  virtue  of  the  power  vested  in  me  by  law  to  declare  the  suspension  of  the 
privilege  of  the  writ  of  h.^beas  corpus  in  cities  threatened  with  inva.sion : 

I,  Jefferson  Davis,  President  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  do  pro- 
claim that  martial  law  is  hereby  extended  over  the  City  of  Riclinioud  and  the 
adjoining  and  surrounding  country  to  tlie  distance  of  ten  miles,  aud  1  do  proclaim 
the  suspension  of  all  civil  jurisdiction  (with  the  exception  of  that  of  the  mayor 
of  the  city),  and  the  suspension  of  the  privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus 
within  the  said  city  and  surrounding  country  to  the  distance  aforesaid. 

In  faith  wherenf,  I  have  hereuntci,signed  my  name  and  set  my  seal,  at  the  City 
of  Richmond,  on  this  first  day  of  March,  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-two. 

[SEAL.J  .  (.Signed)  .JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 

II.  .Brigadier-General  J.  II.  Winder,  comin.anding  the  Department 
of  Henrico,  is  charged  with  the  duo  execution  of  the  foregoing  procla- 
mation, lie  will  forthwith  establish  an  efficient  military  police,  and 
will  enforce  the  following  orders  : 

All  distillation  of  spirituous  liquors  is  positively  prohibited,  aud  the 
distilleries  will  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous  liquors  of 
any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  aud  establishment?  for  the  sale  thereof  will 
bo  clofced. 


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III.. All  persons  infringing  tbe  above  prohibition  will  .suffer  such 
punishment  as  shall  bo  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial: 
Provided,  that  no  sentence  to  hard  labor  for  more  than  one  month  shall 
be  inflicted  by  the  sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  as  directed 
by  the  G7th  Article  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GEXEUAL  ORDERS, -1  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genkral's  Office, 

No.  10.  J  IviCHMOND,  March  8, 1802. 

[Extract.] 
General  Order,  No.  9,  issued  March  1,  1862,  proclaiming  the  suspen- 
sion of  all  civil  jurisdiction,  with  the  exception  of  that  of  the  mayor 
of  the  City  of  Richmond,  within  the  city  and  tbe  surrounding  country 
to  the  distance  of  ton  miles,  is  hereby  so  modified  as  to  permit  the 
courts  to  take  cognizance  of  the  probate  of  wills,  the  administration 
of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons,  and  the  qualifications  of  guardians  ; 
to  enter  decrees  and  orders  for  the  partition  and  sale  of  property;  to 
make  orders  concerning  roads  and  bridges ;  to  assess  county  levies, 
and  ordQr  the  payment  of  county  dues. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
*  Adjutant  and  Inspector- General, 


OKN'ERAL  ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  11.  )  KiCHMOND,  March  8,  186'J. 

I.. The  following  proclamation  is  published  for  the  information  of 
all  concerned  : 

PROCLAMATION. 

By  virtue  of  tlie  power  vested  in  nie  by  law  to  declare  the  suspension  of  tlie 
privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  in  cities  threatened  with  invasion: 

I,  Jefferson  Davis,  President  of  tlie  Confederate  States  of  America,  do  proclaim 
that  martial  law  is  hereby  extended  over  the  City  of  Petersburg,  an^  the  adjoin- 
ing and  surrounding  country  to  ths  dictant  e  of  ten  miles,  and  I  do  proclaim  the 


suRpetiHidii  of  all  civil  jurisiliclioii  (vitli  tliii  cxreption  of  (liat  of  tlic  iwiyor  of 
tho  i;ity,  and  tliat  enabling  the  courts  to  take  cognizance  of  the  prohate  of  wills, 
the  administration  of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons,  the  finalificatlons  of  guar- 
dians, to  e?itor  decrees  and  orders  for  the  partition  and  sale  of  property,  to  mnUe 
orders  conccrniii;;  roads  and  bridges  to  assess  count}'  levies,  and  to  order  the  pay- 
ment of  county  dues),  and  the  suspension  of  the  jirivilege  of  tho  writ  of  habeas 
corpus  within  the  .said  city  and  surrnundinj;  country  to  the  distance  aforesaid. 

In  faith  whercnf,  I  have  hereunto  signoil   my  name  and  >^ut  my  tieal   on,  this 
eighth  day  of  JIarch,  in  the  year  one  thousanil  eight  hundted  and  sixty-two. 
[SKAI..J  (Signed)  JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 

II.  .AViLi.iAM  Pan.mll  is  appointed  provost  inarshnl,  and  is  charged 
with  the  dnc  c.xcoution  of  the  forcgoiiif;  proclamation,  lie  will  forth- 
with establish  an  cHicicnt  military  police,  and  will  enforce  the  following 
orders : 

III.. All  distillation  of  spirituous  liquors  is  positively  prohibited, 
and  the  distilleries  vifill  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous 
liquors  of  any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  and  estiiblishmcnts  for  the  sale 
thereof  will  be  closed. 

IV.. All  por.sons  infringing  tho  .above  prohibition  will  suffer  such 
punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial : 
Provided,  that  no  seutcnco  to  bard  labor  for  more  than  one  month  shall 
,bo  inflicted  by  tho  sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  as  directed 
-by  the  67th  Article  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inxpcclor-Gcncrnl. 


fERAL  ORDERS,"! 

•       No.  12.   "         j 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  AVAR  DEPARTIMENT. 

ADJUTANT   AND   iNSPECTOR-tiKNEKAL's   OFFICE, 

KiciiMOND,  March  10,  1862. 


The  following  order  is  published  for  the  instruction  and  guidance  of 
oTficers  of  the  army  : 

I.. All  odleers  receiving  provisions  from  officers  of  the  Commissary 
department  will  state,  on  the  back  of  the  return,  the  amount  of  each 
article  of  provisions  actually  received  on  that  return  ;  .and  commissa- 
ries will  make  out  their  Absti-acii  of  Isnuen  in  accordance  with  such 
receipts. 

II.  .Commanding  officers  whose  duty  it  may  be  to  examine  the 
"Abstracts  of  I.^buos  "  of  tho    conimi3sariL>.<>  -of  their   command   will 


reject  all  "Eeturns"  fur  issue  (made  alter  the  promulgatiou  of  this 
order  to  their  respective  couimauds)  which  do  not  show  the  amounts 
actually  issued  by  the  statement  of  the  receiving  officer  to  that  eflfect, 
certifying  that  the  abstracts  are  in  accordance  with  the  issues  actually 
made. 

III.. All  disbursing  officers  will  comply  strictly  with  the  require- 
ments of  the  regulations  of  their  departments  calling  for  the  rendition 
of  their  monthly  returns  five  days  after  the  expiration  of  each  month; 
and  of  quarter-yearly  accounts  twenty  days  after  the  expiration  of 
each  quarter:  and,  where  failing  within  three  months  after  the  expira- 
tion of  the  quarter  to  make  the  proper  returns,  officers  so  failing  shall 
then  be  dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the  army.  The  onus  of  explaining 
such  default  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  President,  with  the  view  to  res- 
toration, shall  in  all  cases  rest  entirely  upon  the  party  who  may  be  so 
dropped. 

IV.  .Commissaries  and  acting  commissaries  of  subsistence  of  regi- 
ments and  battalions  will,  whenever  pos6il)le,  draw  provisions  on  re- 
turns according  to  forms  No.  13  and  14  of  the  Subsistence  Regula- 
tions. Commissaries  who  draw  stores  in  bulk  can  alone  make  sales  to 
officers. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Jnspector-Ueneral. 


GENKK.tL  ORDUKS,  )  WAR  DKl'ARTJIENT, 

Y         .  Adjutant  .\nd  Inspector-General's  Office, 

.^^  No.  13.  j  Richmond,  March  13,  1862. 


I.. The  following  act  of  Congress,  and  the  regulations  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  'W^ar  thereupon,  with  directions  respecting  damaged  powder, 
etc.,  are  published  for  the  information  of  the  army  : 

An  act  to  cgtablieh  a  uniform  Bide  of  Naturalization  for  persons  enlisted 
in  the  armieti  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

Sec.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  enact.  Tliat  every 
person  not  a  citi/.uu  of  one  of  the  Confederate  States,  engaged  in  the  military  ser- 
vice of  the  said  Coufoderate  States,  during  the  existing  war  against  the  United 
States  of  America,  shall  thereby,  and  while  in  such  service,  be  under  the  protec- 
tion of  the  Confederate  States,  as  fully  as  if  he  were  a  citizen  thereof,  the  rights 
of  a  citizen  being  to  such  e.xtent  hereby  conferred;  and  moreover,  shall  have  the 
right  to  lfccoir»o  naturalized  and  to  become  a  citizen  of  any  one  of  the  Confederate 
states,  and  fhall  thereby  be  entitled  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  a  citizen 


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of  aaid  state  of  the  Confederate  States,  upon  taking  an  oatli  to  support  the  consti- 
tution of  such  state,  and  well  and  faithfully  to  servo  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  to  maintain  and  support  the  constitution  and  laws  thereof,  and  to 
renounce  all  allegiance  and  obedience  to  any  foreign  government,  state,  sover- 
eignty, i)rince,  or  potentate,  and  particularly,  by  name,  the  govornmont,  state, 
sovereignty,  prince,  or  potentate,  of  wliich  he  may  be,  or  have  been,  a  citizen  or 
subject,  and  stating  which  one  of  the  Confederate  States  he  intends  to  become  a 
citizen  of.  But  if  the  state  in  which  the  said  applicant  shall  have  resi<led  next 
before  his  ajiplication  shall  afterward  become  a  member  of  this  Gonfedcr.acy,  the 
citizenship  of  said  ajiplicant  slulU  reiuain  it»  Siiid  state,  at  his  election,  notwith- 
standing proceedings  under  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  The  oath  proscribed  in  the  preceding  section  may  be  made  by  all  persons 
below  the  rank  of  colonel  before  the  colonel  or  commanding  ofllcer  of  the  regi- 
ment to  which  such  persons  m.ay  be  attached  ;  and  said  oath  may  be  made  by 
colonels,  and  all  officers  superior  in  rank  to  colonels,  and  by  all  persons  enlisted 
in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  not  tttt.ached  to  regiments,  before 
any  commissioned  officer  of  the  Confederate  States  of  rank  higher  than  that  of 
colonel.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  provide  blank  forms 
of  the  oath  required  to  be  taken  as  aforesaid,  and  to  cause  the  same  to  be  distrib- 
uted whenever  necess.ary,  and  to  make  the  regulations  necessary  for  informing  all 
liersons  now  cng.-iged  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  of  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  and  to  cause  all  the  oaths  so  taken  as  afores.aid  to  be 
returned  to  the  War  department.  And  it  sh.all  be  further  the  duty  of  the  Sec- 
retary of  AV.ar  to  file  for  i-ecord,  in  tlie  district  court  of  the  Confederate  States  for 
tlie  state  and  district  where  the  capital  may  be  situated,  all  the  oaths  so  returned 
to  the  War  department  as  afores.aid.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of 
said  district  court  to  record  all  oaths  of  naturalization  filed  with  him  as  afore- 
said, and  to  keep  .an  index  of  the  same,  for  which  service  he  shall  be  entitled 
to  a  fee  of  twenty-five  cents  for  each  naturalization  oatU,  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  public  tre.asnry,  in  the  same  manner  as  his  other  fees  of  ofBce.  [Approved 
August  22,  ISOl.] 

II.. Any  person  under  the  rank  of  colonel,  eng.iged  in  tlio  military 
service  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  attached  to  a  regiment,  may 
become  a  citizen  of  one  of  said  states,  by  taking  the  following  oath 
before  the  colonel  or  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment  to  which  he 
is  attached  : 

I,  ,  do  solomnlj'  swear  to  support  the  constitntion  of  the  State 

of ,  of  which  said  state  I  intend  to  become  a  citizen  ;  that  I  will 

well  and  faithfullj'  serve  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  main- 
tain an<l  support  the  constitution  and  laws  thereof;  and  that  I  do 
renounce  .all  allegiance  and  obedience  to  any  foreign  government,  st.atc, 
sovereignly,  prince,  or  potentate,  and  particularly  all  allegiance  and 
obedience  to 

Sworn  to  and  sub?cribcd  before  mo,  this day  of ,  186-,  by 

,  who  is  attached  to  the  regiment  under  my  command. 

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III.  .The  same  oath  must  be  taken  by  colonels,  and  officers  superior 
in  rank  to  colonels,  and  also  by  all  persons  enlisted  in  the  military  ser- 
vice of  the  Confederate  States  not  attached  to  regiments,  in  order  to 
become  citizens  of  any  one  of  the  Confederate  States.  In  such  cases, 
the  oath  must  be  taken  and  subscribed  before  a  commissioned  officer  of 
the  Confederate  States,  whose  rank  is  higher  than  that  of  colonel, 
whose  certificate  must  show  that  such  oath  was  taken  by  a  colonel,  or 
by  an  officer  superior  in  rank  to  a  colonel,  or  by  a  person  enlisted  in 
the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  not  attached  to  any 
regiment. 

IV.. Any  oath  taken  as  aforesaid  shall  be  returned  to  the  War 
department  by  the  officer  before  whom  it  is  taken. 

v.. Wastage  of  damaged  powder  and  ammunition  in  camps  and  at 
batteries  having  been  reported,  it  is  made  the  duty  of  officers  in  charge 
thereof  to  turn  it  over  to  the  nearest  ordnance  officer;  or,  he  being 
absent,  to  the  quartermaster,  who  will  forward  it,  with  invoices  of  the 
amount,  to  the  ordnance  officer  at  Richmond,  Raleigh,  Augusta,  or 
New  Orleans,  depending  on  their  distance  from  those  points  respect- 
ively.    The  same  will  be  done  with  all  unserviceable  arms 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  In$pector-Gencyal. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  14.  (  Richmond,  March  13,  1862. 

General  Robkrt  E.  Lue  is  assigned  to  duty  at  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment; and,  under  the  direction  of  the  President,  is  charged  with  the 
conduct  of  military  operations  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederacy. 
By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailpilaiit  and  fiispr.cior-Oevrraf. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  15.  )  RiCBMOND,  March  14.  186'2. 

I.  .The  ft)llowiug  proclamation  is  published  for  the  information  of 
all  concerned; 

PROCLAMATION. 

Hy  virtue  of  the  power  vested  in  mo  by  law  to  declare  the  suspension  of  the 
privilege  of  tlie  writ  of  habeas  corpus  : 

1.  Jkfferson  Davis.  Presi^lcnt  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  do  proclaim 
that  martial  law  is  hereby  nxtondcrt  over  the  counties  of  Elizabeth  City,  York, 
Warwick,  Gloucester,  and  Matthews ;  and  I  do  proclaim  the  suspension  of  all  civil 
jurisdiction  (with  the  exception  of  that  enabling  the  courts  to  take  cognizance  of 
the  probate  of  wills,  the  administration  of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons,  the 
qualification  of  guardians,  to  enter  decrees  and  orders  for  the  partition  and  sale  of 
property,  to  make  orders  concerning  roads  and  bridges,  to  assess  county  levies,  and 
to  order  the  payment  of  county  duos),  and  the  suspension  of  the  privilege  of  the 
writ  of  habeas  corpus,  in  the  counties  aforesaid. 

7>i  faith  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  signed  my  name  and  set  my  seal,  this  four- 
teenth day  of  March,  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two. 
[SEAl,.]  (Signed)  JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


II.  .Major-General  Magruder,  commanding  the  Army  of  the  Penin- 
sula, is  charged  with  the  due  execution  of  the  foregoing  proclamation, 
lie  will  forthwith  establish  an  efficient  military  police,  and  will  enforce 
the  following  orders  : 

III.. All  distillation  of  spirituous  liquors  is  positively  prohibited, 
au<l  the  distilleries  will  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous 
liijuors  of  any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  and  establishments  for  the  sale 
thereof  will  be  closed. 

IV.. All  persons  infringing  the  above  prohibition  will  suffer  such 
punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial: 
jirovided,  that  no  sentence  to  hard  labor  for  more  than  one  mouth  shall 
be  inflicted  bj'  the  sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  as  directed 
by  the  f>7th  Article  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
A<lJHtn)it  and  Inspector-General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS, ->  IIEAU-QUARTERS, 

No.  1.  J  RicnMOND,  Va.,  March  20,  1862. 

To  avoid  the  danger,  if  not  the  certainty  of  frequent  collisions,  and 
the  consequent  destruction  of  life  and  property,  as  well  as  obstruction 
to  .all  transportation,  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  the  movements  of 
railroad  trains  should  be  under  one  jutdivided  control.  These  consid- 
erations make  it  imperative  that  all  trains  should  be  regulated  in  their 
movements  and  speed  only  by  their  conductors  and  engineers,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  regulations  and  time  tables  of  the  company.  All 
the  operations  of  a  road  should  be  controlled  by  its  superintendent,  or 
other  authorized  officer ;  and  all  orders  for  transportation  of  every 
kind,  and  the  movement  of  every  train,  will  be  directed  through  him, 
when  the  exigencies  of  the  service  demand  a  variation  from  the  regu- 
lar schedule.  Disregard  of  this  rule  will  inevitably  be  attended  with 
disastrous  consequences. 

By  order  of  General  R.  E.  Lee. 

W,  H.  TAYLOR, 
Assistant  Adjn'aut-G eneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  16.  J  Richmond,  March  24,  1862. 

All  leaves  of  absence  and  furloughs,  from  whatever  source  obtained, 
arc  revoked;  and  officers  and  men  absent  from  dut)',  except  on  sur- 
geon's certificate  of  disability,  will  return  at  once  to  their  respective 
commands.  It  is  with  extreme  reluctance  that  the  department  adopts 
a  measure  which  deprives  our  patriotic  soldiers  of  the  relax.ation  they 
have  so  well  earned;  but  the  enemy  presses  on  everj' side,  and  the 
necessities  of  the  service  demand  new  illustrations  of  that  noble  self- 
denial  which  has  been  so  many  times  evinced  since  the  commencement 
of  our  struggle  for  independence.  The  furloughs  of  all  who  have 
engaged  for  the  war  which  are  thus  curtailed  will  be  extended  here- 
after, when  circumstances  permit.  But,  judging  from  the  past,  no 
fears  are  entertained  of  an  unwilling  response  to  this  call.  Those  who 
have  so  many  times  proved  their  devotion  to  their  country,  can  not  be 
indifterent  or  backward  in  this  hour  of  her  greatest  need  ! 

By  order  of  the  President. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjntcnit  and  Impfictnr-Gcncrul. 


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WAR  DEPARTMENT, 
Richmond,  Va.,  3f<trrh  26,  1862. 
I.  .Tho  following  regulations  arc  adopted  in  place  of  medical  regula- 
tions, paragraphs  2  to  6,  inclusive,  and  general  regulations,  paragraphs 
1151  to  1155,  inclusive,  and  will  be  obeyed  accordingly  : 

1.  An  army  corps  or  military  department  will  have  a  medical  officer 
assigned  as  medical  director,  who  will  have  the  general  control  of  the 
medical  officers  and  hospital. 

2.  A  division  will  have  a  medical  officer  assigned,  on  the  recommen- 
dation of  the  medical  director,  as  chief  surgeon;  or  the  senior  medi- 
cal officer  of  the  division,  on  the  same  recommendation,  will  be  relieved 
from  regimental  duty,  and  placed  in  general  charge  as  chief  surgeon 
of  division. 

.").  A  brigade  will  be  under  the  general  medical  charge  of  the  senior 
surgeon  of  brigade,  who  will  not  be  relieved  from  regimental  duty. 

4.  Jlcdical  directors,  chief  surgeons  of  divisions,  and  senior  sur- 
geons of  brigades  will  inspect  the  hospitals  of  their  commands,  and 
sec  that  the  rules  and  regulations  are  euforced,  .nnd  the  duties  of  tho 
surgeons  and  assistant  surgeons  are  properlj'  performed. 

5.  They  will  examine  the  case  books,  prescription,  and  diet  books, 
and  ascertain  the  nature  of  diseases  which  may  have  prevailed,  and 
their  probable  causes;  recommend  the  best  method  of  prevention,  and 
also  make  such  suggestions  relative  to  the  situation,  construction,  and 
economy  of  the  hospitals,  and  to  the  police  of  the  camps,  as  may  ap- 
pear necessary  for  the  benefit  and  comfort  of  the  sick,  and  the  gooil  of 
the  service. 

1).  Senior  surgeons  of  brigades  will  receive  the  monthly  reports  of 
sick  and  wounded  (Form  1)  rciiuirod  from  the  medical  officers,  and 
transmit  them  through  I  he  chief  surgeon  of  division  to  the  medical 
director. 

7.  The  medical  director  will  make  to  the  surgeon  -  general  a  con- 
solidated monthly  report  of  the  sick  and  wounded  from  the  monthly 
reports  of  the  medical  officers  of  the  command. 

t>.  Chief  surgeons  of  divisions  and  senior  surgeons  of  brigades  will 
see  that  the  quarterly  reports  of  sick  and  wounded,  and  monthly 
statements  of  hospital  fund  reiiuired  from  the  medical  officers  are 
transmitted  to  the  surgeon-general. 

9.  Senior  surgeons  of  brigades  will  make  to  the  chief  surgeons  of 
divisions,  and  chief  surgeons  of  divisions  will  make  to  tho  medical 
director,  monthly  returns  of  the  medical  officers  of  their  commands. 
(Form  2.) 

10.  The  medical  director  will  make  to  the  surgeon-general  a  monthly 
•  return  of  the  medical  officers  of  the  command. 


1 1..  Medical  officers  heretofore  styled  medical  directors  who  do  not 
come  within  the  meaning  of  the  first  of  the  above  regulations  will  b« 
dcBigualed,  as  the  case  may  be,  in  accordance  with  the  second  or  third 
regulation;  and  medical  officers  heretofore  called  brigade  surgeons,  if 
not  attached  to  regiments,  will  be  assigned  to  regiments  not  provided 
with  surgeons. 

'      GEO.  W.  RANDOLPH, 

Secretary  of  War. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

>-  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Okfice, 

No.  17.  J  Richmond,  March  27,  1862. 

The  following  orders  are  published  for  the  direction  and  guidance  of 
all  concerned; 

I.. Hereafter  the  rank  and  file  of  the  army  will  not  be  permitted  to 
carry  other  side  arms  than  those  issued  by  the  government,  or  such  as 
are  approjjriate  to  their  arm  of  service.  All  side  arms  now  borne  by 
dismounted  troops  will  be  turned  in  to  the  Ordnance  department,  for 
which  a  fair  value  will  bo  paid. 

II.. All  requisitions  made  upon  the  Ordn:ince  department  for  a  new 
issue  of  arms,  accoutrements,  or  equipments,  must  be  accompanied  by 
evidence  that  such  articles  previously  issued  have  been  condemned  by 
a  board  of  survey,  and  turned  over  to  the  nearest  ordnance  otficer,  bo- 
fore  a  new  is.«ue  can  bo  made. 

III.  .Oliicers,  oiher  than  Uominanding  (Jenorals,  are  prohibited  from 
sending  oflicers  to  the  seat  of  government  for  transaction  of  business 
in  person,  as  it  may  be  done  by  correspondence. 

IV.. All  company  commanders,  commanding  officers  of  battalions, 
and  other  officers  having  charge  of  clothing,  camp  and  garrison  equi- 
page, or  other  quartermaster's  property,  are  required  to  make  a  return 
of  the  same  to  the  quartermaster -general  at  the  expiration  of  each 
quarter,  showing  the  receipts  and  issues  during  the  quarter,  and  the 
balance  on  hand  at  the  expiration  of  the  quarter.  This  rule  will  also 
be  observed  with  regard  to  the  returns  required  by  the  Ordnance  de- 
partment. 

By  conimiind  of  I  ho  Spcrctary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
A'Jjnl<iiil  it)id  ln^p'vtor-<.lcHcrul.» 


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GENERAL  ORDBRS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb. 

No.  18.  J  Richmond,  March  29, 1862. 

I.. The  following  proclamation  is  publisbed  for  tho  information  of 
all  concerned : 

PROCLAMATION. 

By  virtue  of  the  power  vested  in  me  by  law  to  declare  the  s«s|ieii8ioii  of  the 
privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus: 

I,  Jefferson  Davis,  President  of  the  Confederate  Stato.s  of  America,  do  proclaim 
that  martial  law  in  hereby  extended  over  the  counties  of  Greonbriar.  Pocahontas, 
Bath,  Alleghany,  Monroe,  Mercer,  Raleigh,  Fayette, Nicholas,  and  Randolph;  and 
I  do  proclaim  tho  suspension  of  all  civil  jurisdiction  (with  the  exception  of  that 
enabling  tho  courts  to  take  cognizance  of  tlie  probate  i<{  wills,  the  adniinistration 
of  the  estates  of  deceased  i)ersons.  the  qualification  of  guardians,  to  enter  ilecreos 
and  orders  for  the  partition  and  stile  of  property,  to  m.ake  orders  concerning  n-ads 
and  bridges  to  assess  county  levies,  and  to  order  the  payment  of  county  dues),  and 
the  suspension  of  the  writ  of  liaboas  corpus  in  the  counties  aforesaid. 

In/aitU  xohe.reof,  I  have  hereunto  signed  my  name  and  sot  my  seal,  this  the  291  h 
day  of  March,  in  the  year  one  thous.and  eight  hundred  .and  sixty-two. 

[SK.M..]  (Signed)  JEFFERSON  DAA'IS. 

II.  .Brigadier-General  IIexuv  IIeth  is  charged  with  tlie  due  execu- 
tion of  the  foregoing  proclamation.  He  will  forthwith  cstablit:h  an 
efficient  military  police,  and  will  enforce  the  following  orders: 

\\\  ilLslillation  of  spirituous  liquors  is  positively  prohibited,  and  the 
distilleries  will  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous  liquor.s  of 
any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  and  establishments  for  the  sale  thereof  will 
be  closed. 

III...V11  pcr.son.s  infringing  the  above  prohibition  will  sufter  such 
punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial:  pro- 
rnled,  that  no  senrcnce  to  hard  labor  for  more  than  one  month  shall  be 
inflicted  by  the  .sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  n.s  directed  by 
the  671h  Article  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.   rOOPEll, 
Adjutant  and  Innprctor-Gencval. 


(lENEKAL  ORDERS,]  WAR  DEI'AUTMKNT. 

>  .\PJUTlVNT  AND  iNSPECTOR-tlfNT.RAI.'S  OFMCK, 

No.  19.  )  KiCHMOND,  ,<;>riY3  1SC2. 

The  following  order  is  published   for  the  infonnatioii  of  the  army, 
and  the  guidance  of  all  eouecrncd  in  the  subjects  referred  to  : 

Wdanter.rx  niintervd  out  <>/  nervirr  nu  the  ex/iiralion  uf  their  If-riii. 
1.  .The  r'llls  for  this  purpom  must   contain  "//  llit  ii'tnnn  which   have 


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been  borne  on  tlic  previoua  muster  rolls,  from  the  first,  or  the  one 
mustering  into  service,  inclmling  all  who  have  died,  been  captured,  dis- 
charged, or  have  deserted,  since  the  enrolment  of  the  comi)an3',  with 
appropriate  remarks  opposite  the  name  of  each  respectively.  All  ab- 
sentees must  be  satisfactorily  accounted  for  b}'  explanations  recorded 
in  the  column  of  remarks.  This  roll,  containing  the  information  above 
required,  will  be  prepared  and  completed  at  tlic  time  that  the  com- 
pany may  be  discharged,  and  be  forwarded  in  duplicate  by  the  officer 
chargc<l  with  mustering  it  out  of  service  direct  to  the  .Adjutant  and 
Inspector- Oencrara  office.  War  department  —  one  endorsed  "For  the 
Qiiarlcrniaslcr-Geueral."  The  roll  will  only  vary  from  the  ordinary 
muster  roll  used  for  the  payment  of  companies,  by  the  addition  of 
the  names  of  all  who  have  died,  been  captured,  discharged,  or  have 
deserted,  since  the  day  of  muster  into  service. 

II.. Payments  upon  company  rolls  will  be  made,  when  practicable, 
at  the  end  of  every  two  (2)  months — as  Januarj^  and  February,  March 
and  April,  etc.  In  no  instance  must  a  company  be  paid  to  a  date 
including  a  fractional  portion  of  a  month,  unless  discharged. 

III. .  .l>ri;;adc  commanilcrs  (where  this  shall  not  have  been  done  by 
the  Commanding  General  of  the  army  with  which  they  may  be  serving) 
will  designate  some  officer  of  the  brigade  to  muster  his  command  upon 
the  last  du3'  of  every  month,  to  examine  and  verify  the  muster  rolls, 
to  sec  that  they  conform  in  all  respects  to  the  requirements  of  printed 
notes  thereupon;  and  to  transmit,  after  such  examination  and  signing 
of  the  said  rolls  by  him,  one  copy  thereof  for  each  company  to  the 
Afljutant  and  Inspector -General;  two  copies  of  the  mualvr  and  ]}at/ 
ridtK  to  the  Brigade  Quartermaster,  upon  which  to-make  his  estimates 
for  p.iynient  of  the  troops;  and  a  third  copy  of  the  muster  and  pay 
rolli  to  the  captain  or  commanding  officer  of  the  company,  for  the  tiles 
of  the  company. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjniant  and  Inspector- Geueral. 


OKNKKAL  ORDEUS.)  WAR  DKPAUTMRNT, 

V  Adjutant  and  iNsriiCTon-OENKKAL's  Office, 

No.  '.'O.  j  KiciiMOXD,  Jpril,  h,  18C2. 

I.. From  this  date  no  authority  will  be  granted  by  this  department 
to  raise  now  companies,  battalions,  or  reu;inients,  except  upon  applica- 
tion, approved  by  the  (general  commanding  the  military  department  in 


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which  the  services  of  sudi  cdrps  are  siicoially  required,  and  by  the 
governor  of  the  state  in  whieh  it  is  proposed  to  raise  the  corps,  if  the 
quota  of  such  slate  has  not  been  already  mustered  into  service. 

ir.  .To  insure  a  proper  degree  of  deliberation  and  accuracy  of  firo, 
it  is  enjoined  upon  all  officers  cominaudiug  batteries  of  heavy  guns, 
that,  habitually,  no  gun  shall  be  fired  oftener  than  once  in  live  minutes, 
except  under  extreme  urgency. 

III.. The  attention  of  the  army  is  called  to  the  regulations  upon  the 
subject  of  corrcsp.ondencc,  which  point  out  the  channels  through  which 
communications  should  be  made  in  the  ascending  line.  Letters  and 
communications  outside  of  this  channel  will  not  receive  attention. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ai^Jiiianl  and  Inspector-General . 


GENERAIi  ORDERg.  )  WAR  DEPARTMEXT. 

■      [■  AWDTANT   AND   INSPECTOR-OEWERAL'S   OFFICE, 

No.  21.  I  Richmond,  April  8, 1862. 

I.. The  following  proclamation  is  published  for  the  information  of 
all  concerned  : 

PROCLAMATION. 

By  virtue  of  the  power  vested  in  mo  by  law  to  declare  the  suspension  of  the 
privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus : 

I,  Jefferson  Davis,  I'resident  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  do  proclaim 
that  martial  law  is  hereby  extended  over  the  Department  of  East  Tennessee, 
under  the  command  of  Major-General  E.  K  Smith;  aud  I  do  proclaim  the  sus- 
pension of  all  civil  jurisdiction  (with  the  exception  of  that  enabling  the  courts  to 
take  cognizance  of  the  probate  of  wills,  the  administration  of  tho  estates  of  de- 
ceased persons,  the  qualification  of  guardians,  to  enter  decrees  and  wdcrs  for  tho 
partition  and  s.ale  of  property,  to  make  orders  concerning  roads  and  bridges,  to 
assess  county  levies,  and  to  order  the  payment  of  county  dues),  aud  tho  suspension 
of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  in  the  department  afoiesaid. 

rn  faith  xvhcrenf.  I  have  hereunto  signed  my  name  and  set  my  seal,  this  eighth 
day  of  April,  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

[SEAL.]  (Signed)  JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 

II.  .Major-General  E.  K.  Smith,  commanding  the  Department  of 
East  Tennessee,  is  charged  with  the  due  execution  of  the  foregoing 
proclamation.  He  will  forthwith  establish  an  etfieieut  military  police, 
and  will  enforce  the  following  orders  : 

All  distillation  of  spirituous  liquors  is  positively  prohibited,  and  the 
distilleries  will  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous  liquors  of 
Z 


2(> 

any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  and  establishments  for  the  sale  thereof  will 
be  closod. 

III.. All  persons  infringing  the  above  prohibition  will  suffer  such 
punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial;  pro- 
vided, that  no  sentence  to  hard  labor  for  more  than  one  month  shall  be 
inflicted  by  the  sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  as  directed  by 
the  67  th  Article  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  WAR  DEPARTJIENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Otficb, 

No.  22.  )  KlcnMOND,  April  9, 1862. 

The  following  regulations  are  published  for  the  guidance  of  recruit- 
ing officers:  ^ 

1.  The  muster  roll  is  the  certificate  of  enlistment.  No  other  blanks 
are  furnished. 

2.  The  muster  roll  must  Ije'sent  to,  or  deposited  in,  the  office  of  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  in  Richmond.  The  recruiting  officer 
will  retain  in  his  possession  (to  be  deposited  with  the  records  of  his 
company)  a  duplicate  of  this  muster  roll. 

3.  A  certified  copy  of  this  muster  roll,  duly  receipted,  will  bo  a  proper 
voucher  for  the  expenditure  of  the  liounty  money. 

4.  The  accounts  for  the  settlement  of  the  bounty  money  will  be 
handed  in,  or  sent  to  tho  Quartermaster-General's  office.  All  balances 
of  this  fund  will  bo  turned  over  to  an  officer  of  tho  Quartermaster's 
department. 

5.  Accounts  for  tho  settlement  of  tho  contingent  fund  of  the  recruit- 
ing service  will  be  sent  to,  or  handed  in  to  the  superintendent  of  the 
recruiting  service. 

6.  Officers  will  be  careful  not  to  confound  this  account  with  the 
bounty  money.     Each  fund  is  to  be  accounted  for  separately. 

7.  Officers  on  recruiting  service  are  entitled  to  commutation  of  fuel 
and  quarters,  at  the  monthly  rate  of  $9  per  room,  and  wood  at  the 

■  market  price  of  tho  locality  where  they  are  recruiting. 


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8.  Sergeants  and  privates,  when  ordered  on  the  recruiting  service 
arc  entitled  to  seventy-five  cents  a  day  from  the  time  of  leaving  their 
companies,  as  comiuutation  for  their  quarters  and  subsistence. 

9.  Recruits  will  be  allowed  seventy-five  cents  a  day  each  as  commu- 
tation for  quarters  and  subsistence  from  the  date  of  enlistment  to  the 
day  of  joining  their  companies,  or  until  subsistence  is  furnished  in 
kind.  This  allowance  will  be  paid  from  the  contingent  fund  in  the 
hands  of  the  recruiting  officers. 

10.  Tran.'portation  will  be  furnished  on  rnilroads  bj'  the  Quarter- 
master's department;  and  agents  on  the  road  have  been  instructed  to 
forward  parties  of  recruits  on  the  certificate  or  requisition  of  recruiting 
officers. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
A'ljutaut  and  luspector-Gcneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.^  HEAD-QUARTERS, 

•  No.  2.  j  Richmond,  April  11, 1862. 

As  it  is  of  the  greatest  importance  to  the  country  that  the  mails 
should  be  transmitted  with  regularity  and  promptness,  it  is  ordered 
that,  whenever  the  exigencies  of  the  service  render  it  necessary  to  use 
the  mail  trains  for  the  transportation  of  troops  and  military  supplies, 
the  ofiicer  directing  the  movement  will  give  orders  to  have  the  mail  car 
attached  to  the  train  and  carried  on  its  proper  route,  or  at  least  to  the 
point  where  it  may  become  necessary  to  stop  or  divert  the  transporta- 
tion train. 

By  order  of  General  Lke. 

T.  A.  WASHINGTON, 
*  Major  and  A.  A.  0. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

Y  Adjutant  A^fD  Instectok-Gkneral's  Ofpici, 

No.  23.  )  Richmond,  April  15,  1862. 

Parties  who  have  been  authorized  by  the  War  department  to  raise 
troops  in  Texas  arc  prohibited  from  enlisting  or  receiving  twelve 
niontb.'  men;  and  all  authority  heretofore  granted  by  thi.-  government 


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to  raise  trunps  in  any  stiitc  is  hereby  revokefl,  unlesg  the  organizalion 
is  completed  and  the  muster  rolls  returucl  to  this  ofiRcc  within  sixty 
days  from  the  date  of  this  order. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "j  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

V  APJUTANT    and   lNSP£CTOR-GENl;RAt"S   OFFICE,. 

No.  24.  j  RiCHMONi).  Jpril  16.  1S62. 

I.. All  officers  assigned  to  ordnance  duty  with  troops  in  the  field 
will  be  reported  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  of  the  army, 
and  will  report  by  letter  to  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  bureau  in  Rich- 
mond. 

II.. Every  General  in  command  of  an  army  corps  will,  if  iio  officer 
is  assigned  to  his  army  for  the  purpose,  fiesign ate  an  officer  for  ord- 
nance duty  as  "Chief  of  Ordnance"  of  that  army,  who  shall,  while  on 
such  duty,  if  of  inferior  grade  in  the  Confederate  army,  he  entitled  to 
the  rank  and  pay  of  major  of  artillery. 

III.. Every  Major-Gencral  in  command  of  a  division,  or  Brigadier- 
General  whose  brigade  constitutes  a  separate  command,  will,  under 
like  circumstances,  designate  an  officer  for  ordnance  duty  as  ''division 
ordnance  officer"  (or  "brigade  ordnance  officer,"  if  the  brigade  consti- 
tutes a  separate  command),  who  shall,  if  a  subaltern  in  the  Confederate 
army,  have  the  rank  and  pay  of  a  captain  of  artillery. 

IV.. Officers  so  appointed  shall  be  selected  on  account  of  fitness  for 
ordnance  duties,  and  shall  be  considered  as  attached  to  the  Ordnance 
bureau,  and  will  not  .be  changed  except  by  authority  obtained  from 
the  head-quarters  of  the  army,  through  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
ordnance. 

v.. Every  commanding  officer  of  a  regiment  will  select  from  the 
non-commissioned  officers  of  the  regiment  the  one  best  qualified  for 
the  duty  of  ordnance  sergeant,  and  will  appoint  him  .acting  ordnance 
sergeant.  Such  non-commissioned  officer  will  have  charge  of  all  the 
surplus  ordnance  stores  of  the  regiment,  and  will  make  i-eturus  of  the 
same  to  the  Ordnance  bureau.  The  arms  and  accoutrements  of  the 
sick  and  disabled  of  the  regiment  will  be  turned  over  to  and  bo  ac- 
counted for  by  him.  He  will  exercise  supervision  over  the  arais  and 
ammunition  in  the  hands  of  the  men,  and  report  any  waste  or  damage 


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to  the  (.livisiiou  onluauce  officer  through  the  colonel  of  the  regiment. 
All  sucli  appointments  will  be  reported  through  the  gt^neral  head- 
quarters to  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  bureau. 

VI.. The  "  Chief  of  Ordnance"  of  an  army  will  require  reports 
montlily,  or  oftener,  from  "division  ordnance  officers,"  and  will  be 
responsible  for  the  supply  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  with  the 
army  to  which  it  is  attached. 

VII.. The  division  ordnance  oflScers  will  make  reports  monthly,  or 
oftener,  if  required,  to  the  "  Chief  of  Ordnance  "  of  the  army  to  which 
the  division  belongs.  They  will  be  responsible  for  all  ordnance  stores 
with  the  division  not  in  the  hands  of  the  troops,  and  make  returns 
thereof  to  the  Bureau  of  ordnanee. 

VIII.  .Chiefs  of  ordnance  of  armies  and  all  ordnance  officers  in  the 
field  are  attached  to  the  staffs  of  their  respective  commands,  but  will 
nevertheless  conform  to  such  orders  and  instructions  received  from  the 
Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  ordnance  in  relation  to  the  execution  of  their 
appropriate  duties  as  do  not  interfere  witii  the  orders  of  the  command- 
ing officers  in  the  field. 

IX.. It  is  especially  enjoined  on  all  officers  of  ordnance  to  prevent 
waste  of  small  arms  and  field  ammunition  in  the  hands  of  troops,  and 
to  cause  unserviceable  ammunition  to  be  sent  off  to  the  nearest  ord- 
nance depot.  Arms,  accoutrements,  and  equipments  which  can  not  be 
repaired  in  the  field  will  in  like  manner  be  forwarded  for  immediate 
repairs. 

X.  .Ordnance  officers  serving  on  the  staffs  of  Generals  commanding 
will  not  enter  into  contracts  for  or  purchase  ordnance  supplies,  except 
in  case  of  necessity,  on  the  authority  of  the  General,  which  must  be 
attached  to  the  contract  or  account  for  such  purchase.  The  exigency 
requiring  the  contract  or  purchase  will  also  be  stated  therein.     , 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  Wax. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjnldul  and  fiispector-General, 


OKNEHAI.  OKPIORS.  )  WAH  DEPARTMENT. 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspkctok-Qeneral's  Offick, 

No.  Jfi.  )  llicHMOND,  April  18,  1862. 

I.. At  a  General   Court  Martial,  convened  at  Galveston,  Texas,  by 
(ileneral  Orders,  No.  17.  of  November  14,  1861,  from  the  Ilead-quarfers, 


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Department  of  Texas,  whereof  Miijur  Frbderick  Tate,  Nichols'  regi- 
ment, was  President,  was  arraigned  and  tried  Captain  Win.  T.  Mechlimj, 
P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  folliiwing  charge  and  specification: 

Ckaroh. 

Breach  of  ArreM. 
Specification...ln  this;  'That  Captain  Wm.  T.  Mechlitig,  V.  A.C.  S.,  while  under 
arrest,  by  confinement  to  the  limits  of  his  camp,  viz :  Camp  Eilward  Clark,  did 
break  his  arrest  by  drilling  the  company  under  his  command."  All  this  at  Camp 
Kdward  Clark,  near  San  Antonio,  Texas,  on  or  about  the  30tli  day  of  October, 
A.  D.  1861. 

FlNDINQS   AND    SENTENCE   OF  THK  COURT. 

The  court  finds  the  accused.  Captain  Wm.  T.  Mechling,  P.  A.  C.  S..  as  follows : 
Of  the  Specification,  guilty;  of  the  Charge,  (;jtt7<y;  and  sentences  him  "to  be 
cashiered." 

II.. The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  submitted  to 
the  Sccretarj'  of  War,  were  by  him  laid  before  the  President,  by  whom 
they  are  approved.  Captain  "Wm.  T.  Mechling,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  accordingly 
ceases  to  bo  an  officer  of  the  C.  S.  army  from  this  date. 

III.. The  General  Court  Martial  of  which  Major  FnEDEUTCK  Tate 
was  President  is  dissolved. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeueral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,-)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

y  ArJtJTANT  AND  Inspectoh-General's  Ofpicis, 

No.  26.  )  RiOUMOND,  April  19,  1862. 

I.  .It  is  made  the  duty  of  commanding  officers  of  companies  to  sign 
wilih  their  own  proper  signatures  all  muster  rolls  of  their  companies, 
all  final  statements,  certificates  of  disability,  and  descriptive  lists. 
That  power  is  not  to  bo  delegated  to  nor  exercised  by  any  other  person. 
Soldiers'  discharges  will  be  signed  by  commanding  oflScers  of  regi- 
ments or  commands  to  which  their  companies  belong.  Great  confu- 
sion daily  arises  from  the  constant  pursual  of  a  different  course.  Sick, 
disabled,  and  discharged  soldiers  are  very  often  unable  to  obtain  their 
pay,  the  discrepancy  of  signatures  rendering  it  impossible  for  this 
department  to  verify  the  same. 

II.. Attention  is  called  to  paragraph  1066,  Army  Ilegulations,  which 
provides  that  "as  far  as  practicable,  oflScers  are  to  draw  their  pay  from 


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the  quartermaster  of  tho  district  where  thoy  maj'  be  on  duty."  Here- 
after, no  payment  will  be  made  to  an  olficer-  on  separate  pay  account 
by  any  other  than  tho  quartermaster  of  tho  post  or  regiment  to  which 
the  officer  may  belong,  except  he  be  absent  from  his  station  under 
orders,  on  leave,  or  on  account  of  sickness,  and  then  only  from  the 
first  of  tho  month  during  which  such  abseuco  occurs  to  its  termination, 
and  for  such  subsequent  full  month,  or  months,  as  ho  may  continue  to 
be  detached  from  his  regular  station,  unless  he  furnish  satisfactory 
evidence  that  payment  could  not  be  made  before  leaving. 

By  order  of  tho  Socretftry  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Iiupector-Gtneral. 


GENERAL  OllDKRS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

Y  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Ofpicb, 

No.  27.  J  .  Richmond,  April  24,  18G2. 

I.. At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Norfolk,  Virginia,  by 
Special  Orders,  No.  15,  1862,  from  the  Adjutant  aud  Inspector-General's 
office,  Richmond,  whereof  Col.  D.  A.  AVeisigeb,  12th  Virginia  volun- 
teers, is  President,  was  arraigned  and  tried  Lieutenant-Colonel  C.  M. 
Bradford,  3d  battalion  Louisiana  volunteers,  on  the  following  charges  : 
[The  Specifications  being  lengthy  and  minute  are  omitted  in  this 
order.] 

CUARQE  I. 

Conduct  jirejudjcjal  to  good  order  and  military  discipline. 

CuARQE  11. 

Contemptuous  and  disrespectful  behavior  loxoard  his  commanding  officer,  in  viola- 
tion  of  the  6th  Article  of  War. 

CllAROE  III. 

Drunkenness  on  dut>/.  in  violation  of  the  45</i  Article  of  War. 

CUARGE IV. 

Disobedience  of  orders,  in  violation  of  the  9th  Article  of  War. 

Findings  and  Sentence  op  THE-ConnT. 

Tlio  court  finds  tlio  accused.  LisutojiantColoncl  C.  M.  Bradford,  3d  battalion 
Louisiana  volunteers,  as  follows : 

Of  the  1st  SpecJficulioii.  Ist  Charge,  guilty.  Of  tbe  2d  Specification,  1st  Charge, 
guilty,  with  tlie  exceptiuli  of  the  words  '•was  druttk  and.''    Of  tho  3d  Spcciflcation, 


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lit  Charge,  guilty.  Of  the  Ist  Cliaige,  yuill;/.  Of  the  Specifleation  of  the  2d 
Charge,  ffttiUi/.  with  the  exception  of  the  words  "  contemptuotis.  inmlUng.  and  ^ 
insubordinate."  Of  the  2d  Charge,  guiU'j,  with  tlie  exceptiou  of  the  words  "  con- 
Umptuous  and.''  [Here  there  is  probably  an  omission  in  the  record.]  Of  the  Speci- 
ficatioD  of  the  3d  Charge,  not  t/iiiKi/.  Of  the  3d  Charge,  not  guilty.  Of  the  Speci- 
fication of  the  4tli  Charge,  not  guilty.     Of  the  4tli  Charge,  not  guilty. 

And  the  court  does,  therefore,  sentence  tlie  said  Lieutenant-Colonel  C.  M.  Brad- 
fordjZiX  battalion  Louisiana  to' unteers,  to  be  suspended  from  his  rank  and  com- 
mand, and  forfeit  his  pay  for  six  months,  and  to  be  reprimanded  in  General 
Orders  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

II.. The  proceedings  of  the  General  Court  Martial  in  the  foregoing 
case  have  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him  laid 
before  the  President,  by  whom  they  are  approved.  Lieutenant-Colonel 
C.  M.  Bradford,  3d  Louisiana  volunteers,  is  therefore  suspended  from 
rank  and  command,  and  from  all  pay,  for  six  months  from  this  date. 
The  offence  of  which  Lieutenant-Colonel  Bradford  has  been  found 
guiltj'  could  at  no  time  be  considered  trivial;  but  it  especially  merits 
rebuke  in  an  officer  of  any  army  called  into  active  service  under  circum- 
stances and  at  a  period  when  both  the  spirit  and  example  of  obedience 
in  all  who  compose  it  are  of  the  highest  importance.  An  army  can  not 
exist  even  in  peace  without  a  proper  observance  of  military  decorum 
and  discipline ;  and  if  in  the  day  of  strife  and  battle  officers,  in  whom 
"especial  trust  and  confidence"  are  reposed,  forget  their  obligations, 
arid  become  obnoxious  to  charges  "  prejudicial  to  good  order,"  the  men 
of  their  command  will  hardly  profit  by  the  example,  or  be  disposed  to 
a  better  course  of  conduct.  In  releasing  Lieutenant-Colonel  Bradford 
from  his  arrest,  the  department  indulges  the  hope  that  when  he  shall 
again  return  to  duty  he  will  be  prepared  to  sustain  by  his  future  course 
the  good  reputation  and  discipline  of  the  service. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Ins'pector-Qeneral. 


GKNERAL  ORDERS,  1  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspectob-Genbral's  Office. 

No.  28.  ■  I  Richmond,  April  25,  1862. 

A  court  of  inquiry  having  assembled  at  Bichmond,  pursuant  to 
Special  Orders,  No.  81,  April  9,  1862,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
(ionoral's  office,  to  examine  "  into  the  causes  of  the  arrest  of  John 
Minor  Dotti,  and  to  report  the  facts  in  reference  thereto,  and  whether, 
iu  the  opinion  of  the  court,  it  is  compatible  with  the  public  safety  to 
disoharge"  the  said  John  Minor  Botis  ;  and  the  court  having  made 


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such  examination,  and  reporU'd  (lie  result,  with  the  evidence  taken  in 
the  ease,  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  the  following  arc  his  decision  and 
orders  thereupon  : 

The  Secretary  of  War,  having  consklcred  the  record  of  tlic  examination  iji  tlie 
case  of  John  Minor  Boitu,  ami  tlie  report  of  Brigadier-General  .A.  W.  M'iiidcr,  ajt  to 
tlie  practicability  of  coufinins  him  to  his  house  and  premises,  iii  the  manner 
recommended  by  the.coiu't  of  inquiry,  directs  that  ho  be  discharged  from  am- 
linement  on  his  delivering  to  General  'Grinder  a  written  parole  of  honor  to  th« 
following  oftect : 

That,  until  otherwise  permitted  by  the  department,  he  will  sojourn  in  Lynch- 
burg,  Danvill*.  or  Raleigh,  or  in  such  other  place  in  the  interior  as  may  be  selected 
by  himself,  with  the  consent  of  the  department;  that  ho  will  proceed,  without 
luinecessary  delay,  to  the  place  of  his  sojourn:  that  he  will  not  depart  therefrom, 
or  go  more  than  five  miles  from  bis  residence;  and  that  while  on  parole  he  will  do 
nothing  to  the  injury  of  the  Confederate  government,  nor  express  any  opinion 
tending  to  impair  the  confidAice  of  tha  people  in  the  capacity  of  the  Confederate 
States  to  achieve  their  independence. 

Mr.  Bolls'  family  will  receive  passports  to  join  him,  if  desired. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.    COOPER,  ' 
Ad/'Kldiil  utid  luKpector-Gvncvdl. 


GENERAL  OKDERS.)  WAR  nEPAHTMENT, 

Y  .Adjutant  and  >nsi>kctoii-Gknerai,'s  Officr. 

■No.  29.  j  Richmond,  /!;))•«  2C.  1862. 

r..The  followinj^  regulations  concerning  substitutes  in  the  army  are 
published  by  direction  of  the  Secretarj'  of  War: 

1.  Any  non-commissioned  officer  or  soldier  not  indebted  to  the  government  who 
wishes  to  procure  a  substitute,  may  obtain  from  his  captain  a  permit  for  the  pri)- 
posed  substitnte  to  report  himself  at  the  camp  of  the  company  for  examination; 
and  such  permit  shall  operate  as  a  passport,  but  shall  not  entitle  the  holder  to 
transixirtation  at  the  expense  of  the  government. 

2.  If  the  substitute  be  exempt  from  military  duty,  and  on  cx.amination  by  a 
surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon  of  the  army  be  pronounced  sound,  and  in  all  respects 
fit  for  military  service,  he  shall  be  enrolled  and  mustered  into  service  for  three 
years,  unless  the  war  sooner  <ermina)jp^,  and  the  nou-commissioiied  officer  or  sol- 
dier procuring  him  shall  thereupon  be  discharged,  but  shall  not  be  entitled  to 
transportation  at  the  expense  of  the  government; 

3.  If  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  soldier,  discharged  by  reason  of  a  substitute, 
bo  indebted  to  the  goveriflni-Mt.  the  olficer  granting  the  discharge  shall  be  liable 
lor  the  debt. 


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4.  All  pay  anil  allowances  due  to  the  non-coinmissioncd  ofiiccr  or  Bolilier  dis- 
cbargcd  Bhall  go  to  the  substitute  at  the  next  pay-day. 

&.  Substitution  shall  not  exceed  one  per  month  in  each  company,  synd  shall  lie 
noted  in  tlie  next  morning  report,  muster  roll,  and  monthly  return. 

II.. When  any  person  liable  to  military  duty  under  the  act  of  Con- 
gross,  but  uot  mustered  into  service  iu  any  company,  desires  to  furnish 
a  substitute,  he  shall  report  him.self  Avilh  the  substitute  to  the  com- 
mandant of  a  camp  of  instruction  for  recruits  raised  under  the  said 
act;  and,  if  the  substitute  be  lawfully  exempt  from  military  duty,  and 
on  examination  by  a  surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon  be  pronounced  sound 
and  in  all  respects  fit  for  military  service,  ho  may  be  accepted  and  en- 
rolled, and  the  person  furnishing  such  substitute  may  be  discharged  by 
the  commandant  of  the  camp.  But  no  substitute  shall  be  entitled  to 
transportation  or  other  allowance  at  the  expense  of  the  government 
until  so  accepted  and  enrolled. 

III.. On  the  reorganization  of  new  companies  from  companies  al- 
ready in  service,  and  the  election  consequent  thereon  of  officers  accord- 
ing to  existing  laws,  the  commissions  of  such  of  the  officers  of  former 
companies  as  may  not  be  re-elected  will  necessarily  expire,  and  they 
will  cease  to  be  in  service  from  the  date  of  reorganization  and  election. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  30.  )  Richmond,  Aiml  28, 1862. 

I.. The  following  acts  having  passed  both  houses  of  Congress,  were 
duly  approved  by  the  President,  and  are  now  published  for  the  infor- 
mation of  the  army : 

An  act  to  organize  hands  of  Partisan  Rangers. 

Sue.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  tho 
President  bo  and  ho  is  hereby  authorized  to  commission  such  officers  as  he  may 
deem  proper,  with  authority  to  form  bands  of '  partisan  rangers,  in  companies, 
battalions,  or  regiments,  either  as  infantry  or  cavalry— the  companies,  battalions, 
or  regiments  to  be  composed,  each,  of  such  numbers  as  the  President  may  ap- 
prove. 

Sec.  2.  Be  U  further  enacted,  That  such  partisan  rangers  after  being  regularly 
rocoivcd  into  the  service  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  pay,  rations,  and  quarters 


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during  their  torin  of  service,  and  bo  subject  to  the  same  regulations  as  otlier 
soldiers. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  Tliat  for  any  arms  and  ninnitions  of  war  captured 
from  the  enemy  by  any  body  of  partisan  rangers,  and  delivered  to  any  ijuarter- 
ma,Mter  at  such  place  or  places  as  may  be  designated  by  a  Comniaudiug  General, 
the  rangers  shall  bo  paid  their  full  value,  in  such  manner  as  the  Secretary  of  War 
may  prescribe.    [Approved  April  21, 1862.J 

An  act  to' further  provide  for  the  puhlic  defence. 

In  view  of  tho  exigencies  of  tho  country,  and  the  absolute  necessity  of  keeping 
in  the  service  our  gallant  army,  and  of  placing  in  the  field  a  largo  additional 
force  to  moot  tho  advancing  columns  of  tlic  enemy  now  invading  oiu-  soil :  There- 
fore, 

Sec.  l-37ic  Omgrcss  of  the  Omfedcralc  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  the  I'rea- 
iilcnt  be  and  ho  is  hereby  authorized  to  call  out  and  place  in  the  military  service  of 
the  Confederate  States,  for  three  years,  unless  the  war  shall  have  been  sooner  ended, 
all  white  men  who  are  residents  of  the  Confoderato  States,  between  the  ages  of 
eighteen  and  thirty-five  years  at  tho  time  the  call  or  calls  may  bo  made,  who  are 
not  legally  exempted  from  military  service.  All  of  the  persons  aforesaid  who  are 
now  in  the  armies  of  tho  Confederacy,  and  whose  terms  of  service  will  expire 
before  tho  end  of  ihe  war,  shall  bo  continued  in  the  service  for  three  years  from 
tho  date  of  their  original  enlistment,  unless  tho  war  shall  have  been  sooner  ended ; 
provided,  however,  that  all  such  comjianies,  squadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments 
whose  term  of  original  enlistment  was  for  twelve  months,  sliall  have  the  right, 
within  forty  days,  on  a  day  to  be  fi.\ed  by  tlie  commander  of  the  brigade,  to  ro- 
org-.inize  said  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments,  by  electing  all  their  officers 
which  they  had  a  right  heretofore  to  elect,  who  shall  bo  commissioned  by  tho 
President:  proviilcd,  further,  tliat  furloughs  not  exceeding  si.\ty  days,  with  trans- 
portation home  and  back,  sh.all  be  granted  to  all  those  retained  in  tho  service  by 
the  provisions  of  this  .ict  beyond  tho  period  of  their  original  enlistment,  and  who 
have  not  heretofore  received  furloughs  under  the  provisions  of  .an  ,act  entitled  "an 
act  providing  for  tho  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  privates  and  noncom- 
missioned  officers  in  the  provisional  army.'  approved  lltli  December,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one;  said  furloughs  to  bo  granted  at  such  times  and  in  such 
numbers  as  tho  Secret.ary  of  War  may  deem  most  compatible  with  the  public  in- 
terest: and  provided,  further,  that,  in  lieu  of  a  furlough,  the  commutation  valu«  in 
money  of  the  transportation  herein  above  granted  shall  be  paid  to  each  private, 
musician,  or  non-commissioned  officer  who  may  elect* to  receive  it,  at  such  time  as 
the  furlough  would  otherwise  be  granted :  provided,  further,  that  all  persons  under 
the  .ago  of  eighteen  years  or  over  tho  ago  of  thirty-five  years,  who  are  now  enrolled 
in  tho  milit.ary  service  of  tho  Confederate  States,  in  the  regiments,  squadrons,  bat- 
talions, and  companies  here.ifter  to  be  reorganized,  shall  be  required  to  remain  in 
their  respective  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments  for  ninety  days, 
unless  their  places  can  bo  sooner  supplied  by  other  recruits  not  now  in  the  service, 
who  are  between  tho  ages  of  eighteen  and  thirty-five  years.  And  all  laws  and 
pjirts  of  laws  providing  for  the  re-enlistment  of  volunteers  and  the  organization 
thereof  into  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  or  regiments,  shall  bo  and  the  same 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sscr  2.   Be  it  further  enacled.  That  such  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  or 


regiiiR'iits  urbanized  or  in  process  of  oiganization  by  mithoritj'  from  tlie  Secretary 
of  War.  as  uiay  be  withiu  thirty  days  from  the  passage  of  tl»is  act  so  far  com- 
pleted as  to  have  the  whole  number  of  men  requisite  for  organization  actually 
enrolled,  not  embracing  in  said  organizations  any  persons  nowin  service,  shall  be 
mustered  into  the  service  of  the_Confederate  States  as  part  of  the  laud  forces  of  the 
same;  to  be  received,  in  that  arm  of  the  service  in  which  they  are  authorized  to 
organize;  and  shall  elect  their  cojnpany,  battalion;  and  regimental  officers. 

SlvC.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  for  the  enrolment  of  all  persons  compre- 
hended within  the  provisions  of  thi.s  act,  who  are  not  already  in  service  in  the 
armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  it  sliall  bo  lawful  for  the  President,  with  the  coji- 
sent  of  the  governors  of  the  respective  states,  to  employ  state  officers ;  and,  on 
failure  to  obtain  such  consent,  ho  shall  emjiloy  Confederate  officers,  charged  with 
the  duty  of  making  such  enrolment  in  .iccordaneo  with  rules  and  regulations  to 
be  proscribed  by  him. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  persons  enrolled  imder  the  provisions  of  the 
preceding  section,  shall  be  assigned  by  the  Secretary  of  War  to  the  different  com- 
panies now  in  service,  until  each  comi)any  is  filled  to  its  maximum  number,  and 
the  persons  so  enrolled  shall  be  assigned  to  companies  from  the  states  from  which 
they  respectively  come. 

Sec.  5.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  seamen  and  ordinary  seamen  in  the  land 
forces  of  the  Confederate  States,  enrolled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  may,  on 
application  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  be  transferred  from  the  land  forces  to 
the  naval  service. 

Sec.  6.  Be  U  further  enacted.  That  in  all  cases  where  a  state  may  not  have  in 
the  army  a  number  of  regiments,  battalions,  squadrons,  or  comijanies  sufficient  to 
absorb  the  number  of  persons  subject  to  military  service  under  this  act,  belonging 
to  such  state,  then  the  residue  or  excess  thereof  shall  be  kept  as  a  reserve,  under 
such  regulations  as  may  be  established  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  that  at  stated 
periods  of  not  greater  than  three  months,  details,  determined  by  lot,  shall  be  made 
from  said  reserve,  so  that  each  company  shall,  as  nearly  as  i)racticable,  be  kept 
full:  provided,  that  the  persons  held  in  reserve  may  remain  at  home  until  called 
into  service  by  the  President:  provided,  also,  that  during  their  stay  at  home  they 
shall  not  receive  pay:  provided furthe.r,  that  the  persons  comprehended  in  this 
act  shall  not  be  subject  to  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War  until  mustered  into  the 
actual  service  of  the  Confederate  States;  except  that  said  persons,  when  enrolled 
and  liable  to  duty,  if  they  shall  wilfully  refuse  to  obey  said  call,  each  of  them 
shall  be  held  to  be  a  deserter,  and  puui^ied  as  such  under  said  Articles:  provided 
furtlier,  that  whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  President,  the  exigencies  of  the 
public  sci-vice  may  require  it,  he  shall  be  authorised  to  call  into  actual  service  the 
entire  reserve,  or  so  much  as  may  be  necessary,  not  pi'oviously  assigned  to  differ- 
ent companies  in  service  under  provision  of  section  four  of  this  act.  Said  reserve 
shall  be  organized  under  such  rules  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  adopt:  provided, 
the  company,  Dattalion,  and  regimental  officers  shall  be  elected  by  the  troops 
composing  the  same :  provided,  the  troops  raised  in  any  one  state  shall  not  be  com- 
bined in  regimental,  battalion,  squadron,  or  company  organization  with  troops  in 
any  other  states. 

Skc.  7.  Beit  further  enacted,  That  all  soldiers  now  servnig  in  the  army  or  mus- 
tered in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  enrolled  in  »aid  service 
under  the  authorizations  heretofore  i.isued  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  who  are 


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coiitimioil  ill  tlic  service  by  virtue  of  this  act,  wlio  liavo  not  iccoived  the  Ivmiity  of 
fifty  rlollars  nllowed  by  existing  laws,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  Raid  bounty. 

Sec.  8.  lie.  it  furlher  exacted.  That  each  man  who  inaj  hereafter  be  mustered 
into  the  service,  and  who  shall  .arm  himself  with  a  musket,  shot-gun,  riHe,  or  car- 
bine, accepterl  as  an  efficient  weapon,  shall  bo  paid  the  value  thereof,  to  be  ascer- 
tained by  the  mustering  officer,  under  such  regulations  as  m.ay  be  jirescribcd  by 
the  Sccret.avy  of  War,  if  he  is  willing  to  sell  the  sanio;  and  if  he  is  not,  then  ho 
sli.all  be  entitled  to  receive  one  dollar  a  luonth  fur  the  use  of  said  received  and 
approved  musket,  rifle,  shot-gun,  or  carbine. 

8ec.  9.  Be  it  further  enactfd.  That  pei-sons  not  liable  for  duty  may  be  received 
as  substitutes  for  those  who  are,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  .Secretary  of  \Var. 

Skc.  10.  Be  it  further  enaci-eil.  That  all  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  the  President 
from  the  company,  battalion,  squadron,  or  regiment  in  which  such  vacancies  shall 
occur,  b.vipromotion  according  to  seniority,  except  in  ca.scs  of  disability  or  other 
incompetency :  provided,  however,  that  the  President  may,  when  in  his  opinion  it 
maj'  be  proper,  fill  such  vacancy  or  vacancies  by  the  promotion  of  .any  officer,  or 
officers,  or  private  or  privates  from  such  company,  battalion,  squadron,  or  regiment 
who  shall  have  been  distinguished  in  the  service  by  exhibition  of  valor  and  skill, 
.ind  tliat  whenever  a  vacancy  sliall  occur  in  the  lowest  grade  of  the  commissioned 
cfliccrs  of  a  company  said  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  election  :  provided,  that  all 
appoiutnient.s  made  by  the  President  shall  be  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Senate, 

Sec.  11.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  i)rovisions  of  the  first  section  of  this  act. 
relating  to  the  election  of  officers,  shall  apply  to  those  regiments,  battalions,  and 
squadrons  which  are  composed  of  twelve  months  and  war  companies  combined  in 
the  same  organiz,ation,  without  regard  to  the  manner  in  which  the  officers  thereof 
were  originally  appointed. 

Sec.  12.  J}c  it  further  enacted,  That  each  compaii}'  of  infantry  shall  consist  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five,  rank  and  file;  each  company  of  field  artillery  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty,  rank  and  file:  and  each  of  cavalry,  of  eighty,  rank  and  file. 

Sec.  13.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  persons  subject  to  enrolment,  who  are 
not  now  in  the  service  under  the  provisions  of  this  act.  shall  be  permitted,  pre- 
vious to  such  enrolment,  to  volunteer  in  companies  now  in  the  service.  (Approved 
April  16.  1862.] 

II. — Enrolment  and  Dispo.sition  or  Rkcruit.s. 

1.  Au  officer  not  below  the  rank  of  major  will  be  detailed  for  each 
state,  to  take  charge  of  the  enrolment,  mustering  in,  subsistence,  trans- 
portation, and  disposition  of  the  recruits  raised  under  the  above  act. 

2.  Application  will  be  made  immediately  to  the  governors  of  the  sev- 
eral states  for  permission  to  employ  state  otficers  for  said  enrolment; 
and  in  case  such  permission  be  not  granted,  officers  of  the  army  will 
be  selected  by  the  department  to  perform  that  duty,  under  such  regula- 
tions as  may  be  prescribed.  When  state. officers  are  employed,  the  regu- 
lations of  the  respective  states  in  regard  to  military  enrolment  will  be 
observed  as  far  as  applicable. 

3.  The  enrolled  mc-n  in  each  state  will  be  collected  in  camps  of  in- 


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struction  by  the  ofTiccrs  in  command  of  the  recruits,  the  sai<l  camps 
to  bo  selected  with  reference  to  health  and  the  facilities  for  obtaining 
subsistence  and  transportation.  The  number  of  these  cauii)s  shall  not 
exceed  two  in  each  state,  without  authority  from  the  department;  and 
to  each  will  be  alloAvcd  a  quartermaster  and  a  commissary. 

4.  The  commaudants  of  the  camps  of  instruction  in  the  several  states 
will  call  upon  the  (icnerals  commanding  the  military  departments  in 
which  their  camps  may  be  situated  for  competent  drill  officers  to  instruct 
the  recruits,  and  will  prepare  them  for  the  field  as  rapidly  as  possible. 
They  will  cause  them  to  be  promptly  vaccinated;  and,  in  ordering  them 
to  (he  field,  will,  as  far  as  practicable,  prefer  those  who  have  passed 
through  the  usual  camp  diseases.  They  will  establish  hospitals  in 
connection  with  their  camps,  and  make  rccpiisition  for  such  medical 
attendance  and  stores  as  may  be  required. 

5.  The  commandants  of  regiments,  battalions,  squadrons,  .and  unat- 
tached companies  in  service  on  the  16th  instant  will  send  copies  of 
their  muster  rolls  to  the  commandants  of  the  proper  camps  of  instruction 
in  their  respective  states,  with  officers  to  take  charge  of  such  recruits  as 
may  be  furnished  to  said  corps.  The  said  commandants  will  apportion 
the  recruits  among  such  corps,  in  proportion  to  the  deficiency  of  each, 
except  when  otherwise  especially  directed  by  the  department,  allotting, 
as  far  as  practicable,  to  each  such  corps  the  men  from  the  regions  of 
country  in  which  it  has  been  raised.  They  will  from  time  to  time  send 
off  such  bodies  of  recruits  as  arp  ready  for  the  field,  and  will  report 
on  the  first  Monday  of  every  month  to  the  department  the  number  of 
recruits  in  camp,  their  condition,  the  number  sent  off  during  the  month, 
and  the  regiments  and  corps  to  which  they  wore  sent. 

6.  The  commaudants  of  regiments  and  corps  will  distribute  the  re- 
cruits among  their  several  companies;  and  iu  such  as  have  not  the  number 
of  companips  allowed  by  law  to  a  regiment,  the  said  commandants  may 
organize  the  reiiuired  number  of  .now  companies,  after  first  filling  up 
the  existing  companies  to  the  minimum  numbers  required  by  law;  that 
is  to  say,  for  each  company  of  infantry,  sixty-four  privates  ;  of  cavalry, 
sixty  privates;  of  artillery,  seventy  privates. 

7.  The  recruits  will  be  apportioned  among  the  several  arms  of  service 
according  to  their  respective  wdnts,  consulting,  as  far  as  practicable, 
the  preference  of  the  men.  Where  a  greater  number  offer  for  a  partiou- 
lar  arm  than  can  bo  assigned  to  it,  the  distribution  will  bo  determined 
by  lot;  but  recruits  for  the  cavalry  will  only  be  taken  from  those  who 
furnish  their  own  horses. 

III. — VOLUNTKEIIS  FOR  EXISTIKO  CoUPg. 

S     I'.Tsiiiis  liable  to  military  service  under  the  above  act,  not  in  fcr 


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vice  on  the  IGth  of  April,  and  wishing  to  volunteer  in  any  particular 
oompiin.v  in  the  Oonfederato  service  on  the  16th  day  of  April,  may 
report  themselves,  prior  to  their  enrolment,  at  a  camp  of  instruction 
within  their  respective  states,  where  they  will  be  enrolled,  prepared  -for 
the  field,  and  sent  to  the  said  company,  until  the  same  shall  be  filled  up. 

9.  Recruiting  officers  may  be  detailed,  with  the  permission  of  the 
Generals  commanding  military  departments,  tiy  the  commandants  of 
regiments  and  corps,  and  sent  to  their  respective  states  for  the  purpose 
of  receiving  for  such  regiments  and  corps,  in  conformity  with  recruiting 
regulations  heretofore  adopted  (General  Orders,  No.  6),  all  volunteers 
desiring  to  join  them.  Such  volunteers  may  be  assembled  at  the  camps 
of  instruction  iu  their  respective  states,  prepared  for  the  field,  and  sent 
to  their  respective  regiments  and  corps,  until  the  same  shall  be  filled 
up ;  or,  if  read}'  for  the  field,  may  be  ordered  directly  to  their  corps  by 
the  officer  so  recruiting  them. 

IV. — Volunteer  Corps  heretofore  authorized. 

10.  Persons  liable  to  military  service  under  this  act,  and  not  in 
service  on  the  16th  day  of  April,  may,  until  the  17th  day  of  May  next, 
volunteer  in  corps  heretofore  authorized  to  be  raised  by  the  Secretary 
of  War,  or  by  the  executive  of  any  state,  as  part  of  the  quota  thereof, 
in  pursuance  of  a  call  made  upon  such  state  by  the  President.  Persons 
authorized  to  raise  such  corps,  who  may  not  on  that  day  have  the 
necessary  number  of  men  enrolled  and  mustered  into  service,  according 
to  the  terms  of  their  authority,  will  proceed  with  their  men  to  a  camp 
of  instruction  in  their  respective  states,  and  will  deliver  their  muster 
rolls  to  the  commandant  thereof. 

11.  The  commandants  of  such  corps  as  are  completed  on  or  before 
the  17th  day  of  May,  and  not  otherwise  ordered,  will  report  to  the 
commandants  of  the  recruits  of  their  respective  states,  and  with  their 
corps  will  bo  placed  by  him  in  a  camp  of  instruction,  and  reported 
immediately  to  the  department.  Such  corps  will  be  under  the  com- 
mand of  the  commandants  of  recruits  in  their  respective  states,  and 
will  be  prepared  for  the  field  in  like  manner  with  the  recruits,  until 
removed  from  the  camp.  They  will  only  be  moved  under  orders  from 
the  department,  from  the  Commanding  General  of  the  armj',  or,  in 
urgent  cases,  from  the  Commanding  Gcuer.al  of  the  military  depart- 
ment in  which  the  camps  may  be  situated;  and,  in  such  cases,  report 
Avill  immediately  bo  made  to  the  department  by  the  officer  in  command 
of  the  camp. 

V. — Abditional  Corps.     Guerilla  Service. 
12    Uiilc  r  tbf  |iiiiliiliiii<iii  nf  this  act  against  the  organization  of  new 


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Corps,  no  further  authority  for  tliat  jnirpose  can  be  given,  except  that 
specially  provided  for  in  the  act  of  Congress,  entitled  "an  act  to  organ- 
ize bands  of  partisan  rangers."  For  this  latter  purpose  application 
must  be  made  through  the  Commanding  Generals  of  the  military 
departments  in  which  the  said  corps  are  to  be  employed. 

VI. — Reorgaijization  of  Twelvu  Months  Corps. 
13.- All  regiments,  battalions,  .squadrons,  and  companies  of  twelve 
months  volunteers  will  reorganize  within  forty  days  from  the  16th  of 
April,  by  electing  all  their  officers  which  they  had  a  right  heretofore  to 
elect,  and  on  such  days  as  the  brigade  commander  may  prescribe ;  and 
the  said  brigade  commanders  are  hereby  ordered  to  fix  and  announce 
the  ddy  for  sucTi  reorganization  as  soon  as  practicable.  No  person  who 
is  to  be  discharged  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  will  take  part  in 
such  election. 

14.  The  form  of  holding  and  certifying  the  elections  will  bo  in  con- 
formity with  the  laws  of  the  state  from  which  the  men,  or  the  major 
part  thereof,  may  come;  and  when  the  election  of  field  officers  is  to  be 
made  by  company  officers,  the  latter  will  be  first  elected.  All  certifi- 
cates of  election  will  be  returned  to  the  Adjutant-lieneral's  office,  and 
the  officers  will  be  commissioned  by  the  President.  They  will,  how- 
ever, on  receiving  a  copy  of  the  certificate  of  election,  immediately 
enter  upon  duty.  Officers  not  re-elected  will  be  relieved  from  duty, 
and  the  brigade  commander  will  return  their  names  to  the  department. 

VII.^ — Coups  eaised  for  Local  Defence. 

15.  Corps  raised  for  local  defence  will  retain  their  organization  during 
the  term  of  such  enlistment,  unless  previously  disbanded  ;  but  men^bers 
of  such  corps  may  volunteer  into  corps  for  general  service,  as  heroin 
above  provided. 

VIII. — Discharges. 
10.  When  any  companj  now  in  servile  for  twelve  months  shall, 
before  the  16th  day  of  July  ne.\t,  attain  the  maximum  number  pre- 
scribed by  this  act,  without  including  the  men  under  eighteen  and  over 
thirty-five  years  of  age,  all  such  men  may  be  discharged  :  and  such  of 
them  as  remain  in  service  on  the  said  day  will,  upon  their  application, 
be  then  discharged,  whether  such  maximum  be  obtained  or  not. 

IX.  —  TltA.NSPKRS. 

17.  The  riglit  to  change  company  or  corps  in  virtue  of  re-enlistment 
ceases  to  exist  by  the  rej)e»l  of  all  laws  in  regard  to  re-enlistment ;  but 
transfers  of  individuals  or  of  companies  maj^  be  made,  as  heretofore, 
within  the  discretion  of  the  department,  on  applicationa  approved  by 
comm^inding  officera. 


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X. — Substitutes. 

IS.  When  any  person  liable  to  militar.y  duty  under  this  act,  but  not 
yet  mustered  into  service  in  any  company,  desires  to  furnish  a  substi- 
tute, he  shall  report  himself  with  the  substitute  to  the  commandant  of 
ji  camp  of  instruction;  and  if  the  substitute  bo  lawfully  exempt  from 
military  duty,  and,  on  examination  by  a  surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon, 
be  pronounced  sound  and  in  all  respects  fit  for  military  service,  he 
may  be  accepted  and  enrolled;  and  the  person  furnishing  such  sub- 
stitute may  be  discharged  bj-  the  commandant  of  the  camp.  But  no 
substitute  shall  be  entitled  to  transportation  or  other  allowance  at  the 
expense  "f  the  government  until  so  accepted  and  enrolled. 

XI.  —  E.'tRMPTIONS. 

IS).  Persons  claiming  exemptions  from  military  duty  under  this  act 
shall  be  required  by  the  enrolling  ofhcor  to  make  oath  that  they  are 
lawfully  exempt,  and  shall  be  furnished  by  him  with  a  certificate  of 
.such  exemption. 

By  eonimaud  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPEK, 
Ar/julniit  mid  Inspcctor-Gencrttl . 


OENEKAL  ORUKIIS,)  WAR  DEPART.MENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspkctor-Gf.nkral's  Office, 

No.  31.  j  Richmond,  April  29,  1862. 

I.  .Military  commanders  are  hereby  prohibited  from  interfering  with 
the  transportation  of  provisions  on  railroads,  except  when  the  exi- 
gencies of  the  service  require  the  exclusive  use  of  the  cars  for  the 
transportation  of  troops,  arms,  and  munitions  of  war. 

II.. All  agents  on  railroads  between  Richmond,  Va.,  and  Jackson, 
Miss.,  will  receive  and  forward  promptly  at  least  two  trains  weekly  of 
flour  and  breadstuffs  to  Jackson,  Miss.,  marked  ''  For  the  Committee  of 
Public  Sc^ti/,  New  Orleans  /'  and,  in  return,  shipments  of  sugar  and 
molasses  made  by  the  committee  to  Richmond,  or  any  other  place  on 
the  route,  at  the  expense  of  parties  making  such  shipments.  But  this 
order  is  not  to  interfere  with  the  transportation  of  troops  or  munitions 
of  war,  which  in  all  easo.s  will  have  preference,  as  above  indicated. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
AdjutnnI  end  Inspector-General. 
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GENERAL  ORDERS,")  WAR  PEPARTMKNT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No,  32.  )  Richmond,  ^Iprii  30,  1862. 

The  following  act  of  Congress,  and  regulations,  having  heen  approved 
by  the  President,  are  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 

All    act  to    exempt  certain  persons   from   enrolment  for   service    in  the 
armies  of  the  Confederate  Slates. 

Sec.  1.  The  Co7if/ress  nf  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  enact,  That  all  per- 
floii.s  who  shall  be  held  to  be  unfit  for  military  service  iimler  rules  to  be  prescribed 
by  the  Secretary  of  War;  all  in  the  service  or  employ  of  the  Confederate  States; 
all  judicial  and  executive  officers  of  Confederate  or  state  governments;  the  mem- 
bers of  both  houses  of  the  Congress,  and  of  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  states, 
and  their  respective  officers;  all  clerks  of  the  officers  of  the  state  and  Confederate 
governments,  allowed  by  law;  all  engaged  in  carrying  the  mails;  all  ferrymen  on 
post  routes;  all  pilots  and  persons  engaged  in  the  marine  service,  and  in  actual 
service  on  river  and  railroad  routes  of  transportation  ;  telegraphic  operators,  and 
ministers  of  religion  in  the  regular  discharge  of  ministerial  duties;  all  engaged  in 
,  working  iron  mines,  furnaces,  and  fonnderies;  all  journeymen  printers  actually 
enii)loyed  in  printing  newspapers;  all  presidents  and  professors  of  colleges  and 
academies,  and  all  teachers  having  ,as  many  as  twenty  scholars ;  superintendents  of 
the  public  hospitals,  lunatic  asylums,  and  the  regular  nurses  and  attendants 
therein,  and  the  teachers  employed  in  the  institutions  for  the  deaf  and  dumb  and 
blind;  in  each  apothecary  store  now  established  and  doing  business  one  .apothecary 
in  good  standing,  who  is  a  practical  druggist;  superintendents  and  operatives  in 
■wool  and  cotton  factories,  who  may  be  exempted  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  shall 
be  and  are  hereby  exempted  from  military  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confeder- 
ate States.    [Approved  April  21, 1862.] 

I.  .All  white  men,  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the 
ages  of  eighteen  and  thirty-five  years,  not  specially  exempted  by  the 
above  act,  are  to  be  enrolled  for  military  service. 

II.  .The  regulations  already  in  force  for  ascertaining  physical  ability 
or  disability  for  military  service  are  continued. 

III. .  Certificates  of  exemption  under  this  act  will  be  granted  by 
enrolling  officers,  or  by  captains  of  companies  and  commandants  of 
camps,  by  whom  a  substitute  may  have  been  received,  to  the  person 
furnishing  such  substitute,  in  conformity  with  regulations  already 
publi.shed. 

IV.,. In  accordance  with  the  General  Regulations,  page  2S4,  one 
wagon  with  each  regiment  in  the  field  will  be  appropriated  for  the 
transportation  of  hospital  supplies.  This  wagon,  with  the  ambulances, 
will  bo  reserved  for  the  especial  use  of  the  hospital  department,  and 


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rcginicnt;il  commanders  and  others  arc  prohibited  from  using  them  for 
any  other  purposes. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GKNKUAL  ORDERS.)  WAR   DEPARTMKXT, 

y  ADJUUNT   ANI>   iNSPECTOR-GKNEnAL'S   OFFICE, 

No.  33.  j  JlicHMOND,  May  1,  1862. 

I.. The  following  proclamation  is  published  for  the  information  of 
all  concernfd : 

PROCLAMATION. 

By  virtu©  of  the  power  vastcil  in  nie  by  l.iw  to  declare  the  suspenRion  of  the 
privilege  of  the  writ  of  liabeivs  corpus: 

I,  Jkffeuson  Pa  vis.  I'ro.'iiJcnt  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  dn  proclaim 
that  martial  law  is  hereby  extended  over  that  part  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina 
from  the  Santee  river  to  the  South  Kdisto  river  in  that  state,  under  the  command 
of  Major-General  ranherton  :  and  I  do  proclaim  the  suspension  of  sill  civil  juris- 
diction (with  the  exception  of  that  enabb'iig  the  courts  to  take  cognizance  of  the 
probate  of  wills,  the  administration  of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons,  the  qualifi- 
cation of  guarilians.  to  enter  decrees  and  orders  for  the  partition  and  sale  of  prop- 
erty, to  make  orders  concerning  roads  and  bridges,  to  assess  county  levies,  and  to 
order  tlie  payment  of  county  dues),  and  the  suspension  of  the  writ  of  habeas 
cqiims  in  the  country  aforesaid. 

In  faith  whereof,  I  hiivo  hereunto  signed  my  name  and  set  my  seal,  this  first  day 
of  May.  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  linndred  and  sixty-two. 

[8KAL.1        "  (Signed)  JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 

II.  .Major-General  J.  C.  Prmbkrton,  commanding  the  Department 
of  South  Carolina  and  Georgia,  is  charged  with  the  due  execution  of 
tlie  foregoing  proclamation.  He  will  forthwith  establish  an  efficient 
military  police,  and  will  enforce  the  following  orders  : 

All  distillation  of  spirituous.liquors  is  positively  prohibited,  and  the  ' 
distilleries  will  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous  liquors  of 
any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  and  establishments  for  the  sale  thereof 
will  be  closed. 

III.. All  persons  infringing  the  above  prohibition  will  suffer  such 
punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial  : 
jirovidcd.  that  no  sentence  to  hard  labor  for  more  than  one  month  shall 
be  inflicted  by  the  sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  as  directed 
by  the  67th  Article  oC  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
A<lj\Uxml  and  Inspector -Gener ah 


u  . 

GENERAL  ORDERS.)  VVAll  DEl'ARTJIKNT, 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspeotor-Grnkrai.'s  Office, 

No.  34.  j  EiCHMOND,  May  3,  1862. 

I.. The  following  act  of  Congress,  and  accompanying  regulations, 
arc  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 

An  act  to  ovgunlze  baUnJionx  of  SJtarjj-ehooler-s. 

Sec.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederoie.  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
Secretary  of  War  may  cause  to  be  organized  a  battalion  of  sharp-shooters  for 
each  brigade,  consisting  of  not  ]e.ss  than  three  nor  more  than  six  companies,  to  be 
composed  of  men  selected  from  the  brigade,  or  otherwise,  and  armed  with  long- 
range  muskets  or  rifles ;  said  companies  to  be  organized,  and  the  commissioned 
officers  therefor  appointed  by  tlie  President,  by  and  witli  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Senate.  Such  battalions  shall  constitute  parts  of  the  brigades  to  which 
they  belong,  and  shall  have  such  field  and  staff  officers  as  are  authoiized  by  law 
for  similar  battalions,  to  be  appointed  by  the  President,  by  and  with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  the  Senate. 

Sue.  2.  Be  it  fiirihcr  enacted,  That,  for  the  purpose  of  arming  .said  bat  (iilions, 
the  long-rango  muskets  and  rifles  in  the  hands  of  the  troops  may  be  taken  for  that 
purpose  :  provided,  tlie  government  has  not  at  its  command  a  sufficient  number  of 
approved  long-range  rifles  or  muskets  wherewith  to  arm  said  corjis.  [Approved 
April  21, 1862.] 

II.. Generals  commanding  military  departments  may  cause  to  be 
organized  within  their  commands  battalions  of  sharp-shooters,  as  pro- 
vided in  this  act,  in  such  numbers  as  they  may  deem  necessary,  not 
exceeding  one  such  battalion  for  each  brigade,  and  will  report  to  the 
department  the  organization  of  such  corps,  recommending  for  appoint- 
ment the  commissioned  oflicers  allowed  by  law. 

III.  .In  organizing  such  battalions,  Generals  commanding  may  cause 
such  details  or  transfers  to  be  made  as  will  not  reduce  any  company  or 
corps  below  the  minimum  number  required  by  law,  taking  the  men  for 
each  such  battalion,  so  far  as  possible,  from  the  particular  brigade  of 
which  it  is  to  form  part. 

IV.  .Requisitions  will  be  made  upon  the  Ordnance  department  for 
the  arms  for  such  battalions;  and,  until  the  said' requisitions  can  be 
filled,  the  Generals  commanding  may  cause  such  exchanges  and  trans- 
fers of  long-range  muskets  and  rifles  to  be  made  as  may  be  necessary 
to  arm  the  said  battalion,  returning  surplus  arms,  when  such  requisi- 
tions are  filled,  to  the  Ordnance  department. 

V. — Sujjplementary  to  General  Order,  A'o.  30,  section  VI. 

The  commissions  of  the  staff  officers  of  reorganized  regiments  and 
battalions  of  twelve  months  volunteers  arc  not  affected  bv  such  rcor- 


ganizatiou,  except  that  of  the  adjutant,  whui-e  coinmis.sion  expires  with 
that  of  tlic  commanding  i>6iocr,  if  the  sairt  ufliecr  be  not  re-elcet«d. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiitaut  and  Inspcrtor-Geiieral. 


GENKRAL  ORDERS.)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  35.  I  Richmond,  May  3,  IStJiJ. 

-    I.. The  following  proclamation  is  puMisheil  for  the  information  of 
all  concerned : 

PROCLAMATION. 

By  virtue  of  the  power  vested  in  mc  by  law  to  i\pol;irc  I  lie  s\i.spension  of  Die 
jirivilegu  of  the  writ  of  liabea.s  corpus  : 

I.  .Iefferson  Davis,  PreBident  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  proclaim 
that  martial  law  is  hereby  exleiidcd  over  the  comities  of  I,ee.  Wise,  Buchanan, 
McDowell,  ami  AVyomiiig,  under  the  command  of  Rrigadier-Gencral  Humphrey 
Marshall :  ami  I  do  iiroclaim  the  suspension  of  all  civil  jurisdiction  (with  the  ex- 
ception of  that  enabling  the  courts  to  take  cognizance  of  tlie  probate  of  wills,  the 
administi-ation  of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons,  the  qualification  of  guardians,  to 
enter  decrees  and  orders  for  the  partiti>)n  and  sale  of  propeity,  to  m.ake  orders 
concerning  ro.ads  and  bridges,  to  assess  county  levies,  and  to  order  the  payment  of 
county  dues),  and  the  suspension  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  in  the  counties 
aforesaid. 

Infaith  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  signcil  my  name  and  set  my  seal,  this  third  day 
of  May,  in  tlie  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

[SEAL.]  (Signed!  JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 

II.. Brigadier-General  IIc.Mrimnv  Marshall  is  charged  with  the 
duo  execution  of  the  foregoing  proclamation.  He  will  forthwith  estab- 
lish an  efficient  military  police,  and  will  enforce  the  following  orders : 

All  distillation  of  spirituous  liquors  is  positively  prohibited,  and  the 
distilleries  will  forthwith  be  closed.  The  sale  of  spirituous  liquors  of 
any  kind  is  also  prohibited,  and  establishments  for  the  sale  thereof  will 
be  closed. 

III.. All  persons  infringing  the  above  prohibition  will  suffer  such 
punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial : 
provided,  that  no  sentence  to  hard  labor  for  more  than  one  mouth 
shall  be  inflicted  by  the  sentence  of  a  regimental  court  martial,  as 
directed  by  the  67th  Article  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.  COOPER. 
'Ailjniiii>(  and  Inipcclor-GcncniL 


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INSTRUCTIONS  TO   ORDNANCE  OFFICERS  IN 
THE  FIELD. 


1st.  The  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  an  army  corps,  and  ordnance  officers 
of  separate  commands,  will  correspond  with  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  ordnance  relative  to  supplies  of  oi'dnance  and  ordnance  stores  with 
the  commands  to  which  they  are  attached.  Requisitions  made,  whether 
for  money  or  stores,  will  be  approved  by  the  General  commanding. 

2d.  The  division  ordnance  officers  will  correspond  with  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance  of  the  o.rmy  corps  to  which  the  divisions  are  attached,  and 
obtain  supplies  through  him.  They  will  be  responsible  for  the  property 
under  their  charge,  and  may  have  an  ordnance  officer  or  military  store- 
keeper to  assist  in  the  care  and  responsibility  of  the  property. 

.Sd.  Division  ordnance  officers  will  obtain  one  or  more  wagons  for 
each  regiment  in  their  division  as  ordnance  wagons.  These  wagons 
will  be  separate  from  the  train  of  wagons  for  reserve  ammunition,  and 
will  be  marked  with  the  name  of  the  regiment  to  which  they  are 
assigned,  and  will  be  placed  in  charge  of  the  ordnance  sergeant  of  the 
regiment.  The  wagons  will  be  covered,  if  possible,  with  painted  cloth 
covers  for  security  against  the  weather,  and  each  wagon  will  be  sup- 
plied with  a  spare  tarpaulin.  These  wagons  will  habitually  follow 
their  respective  regiments. 

4th.  On  the  eve  of  liattlo  the  division  ordnance  officer  will,  under 
direction  of  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  the  army,  station  the  ordnance 
wagons  at  the  point  selected  for  the  division  field  depot  of  ammunition 
under  charge  of  his  assistant;  each  train  of  brigade  ammunition 
wagons  under  charge  of  the  senior  ordnance  sergeant  of  the  brigade. 
He  will  keep  himself  acquainted  with  the  movements  of  brigades,  and 
cause  the  wagons  of  any  brigade  which  may  be  detached  to  follow  the 
movements  of  the  brigade. 

5th.  The  ordnance  sergeants,  together  with  the  details  habitually 
assigned  to  them  for  their  regiments,  will  constitute  a  corps  devoted  as 
well  to  the  preservation  of  the  captured  and  other  ordnance  stores  as 
to  the  supplies  of  ammunition  of  the  various  regiments.  One  man  of 
each  detail  should  follow  the  movements  of  the  regiment,  to  ascertain 
its  wants,  and  communicate  with  the  field  depot.     The  habitual  details 


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from  each  regiment  should  be  augmented  before  a  battle  to  not  less 
than  six  men  from  each  regiment.  The  ammunition  wagons,  their 
loads  temporarily  removed,  will,  as  circumstances  favor,  be  employed 
to  carry  to  the  rear  such  nrin^  nn-l  ntlier  captured  stf.rns  n>  are  left 
upon  the  battle-field. 

f)th.  Especial  caronnust  be  taken  in  selecting  competent,  prompt,  and 
cfBeicnt  men  for  the  duties  of  ordnance  sergeants.  They  may  be  re- 
moved for  cause,  and  new  appointments  ordered,  on  the  application  of 
the  division  ordnance  'ifllcers,  through  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  the 
army  corps,  by  the  Commanding  General. 

7th.  The  ammunition  wagons  to  each  regiment  will  not  su]ier8edc 
the  necessity  for  division  supply  trains. 


DUTIES  OF  ORDNANCE  SERGEANTS. 


1.--t.  To  obey  tlic  directions  of  the  division  ordnance  officer,  or  of 
the  brigade  ordnance  officer  (if  the  brigade  is  a  separate  command), 
in  all  relative  to  car*  and  preservation  of  arms,  and  duties  connected 
therewith. 

2d.  To  take  charge  of  all  supplies,  arms,  and  ammunition  of  the 
regiment,  and  make  retu»ns  of  the  same  ac^jprding  to  "  Ordnanco 
Regulations." 

Issues  to  be  made  on  written  requisitions  approved  by  the  colonel,  or 
commanding  officer  of  the  regiment;  which  requisitions  are  to  be  filed 
with  his  "  return  of  property." 

3d.  To  take  charge  of  the  ordnance  wagon  or  wagons  attached  to 
each  regiment,  and  to  see  that  it  always  contains  at  least  fifteen  rounds 
l>cr  man  of  the  regiment  —  surplus  arms  or  accoutrements  to  be  turned 
over  to  the  brigade  or  division  ordnance  officer. 

4th.  To  supervise  the  condition  of  the  arms  of  the  regiment,  and  get 
a  detail  of  at  least  two  mechanics  to  assist  him  in  the  necessary  repairs 
to  the  arms;  an  account  of  these  repairs  to  be  kept,  as  far  as  possible, 
against  each  man  of  the  regiment,  llepairs  to  be  made  on  the  order  of 
the  colonel  of  the  regiment. 


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6th.  To  take  charge  of  the  arms  and  accoutrements  of  the  sick  of  the 
regiment  in  hosjiitals,  which  will  be  kept  until  the  sick  arc  sent  (o  the 
general  hospital,  when  their  arras  will  be  turned  over  to  the  brigade  or 
dlTision  depots. 

6th.  In  battle,  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  ordnance  sergeants  to 
remain  with  the  ammunition  wagons,  and  act  with  the  details  assigned 
to  thorn  from  the  regiment.s,  under  the  orders  of  the  ordnance  officer,  in 
supplying  the  troops  with  amnnmition,  collecting  arms  of  the  killed 
and  wounded,  and  securing  caplured  arms  and  ammunition. 
Approved  : 

J.  ftORGAS,  C'uloucl, 

Chief  of  Ordnance. 
G.  W.  RANDOLPH, 

Secreturi)  of  War. 


r.KNERAL  ORDER?.)  WAR  DEP.^RTMENT, 

V  AWUTANT    AND   InSPECTOR-GENERAL'S    OmCE, 

No.  ^(i.  j  KiCHMO.NP,  May  17.  18(V2. 


I.. All  application.s  for  discharge,  made  bypersons  over  thirty-five 
3'cars  of  ago,  who  may  have  been  drafted  since  the  10th  March,  1862, 
under  the  Virginia  laws,  and  assigned  to  militarj'  organizations  serving 
under  authority  of  the  Confederate  States,  will  be  granted  by  brigade 
commanders,  regimental  and  company  commanders  causing  to  be  made 
out,  and  signing,  the  "  Soldier's  Discharge,"  and  "  Final  Statements," 
required  in  all  casc.«  of  discharge  :  said  pai»crs  to  indicate  cause  for  the 
discharge. 

II.  .In  all  cases  whore  prom,otion  is  due  from  seniority,  and  the  com- 
petency of  the  parties  entitled  by  position  to  promotion  in  questionable, 
a  board  of  examination  shall  be  convened  by  brigade  commanders  to 
determine  the  candidates'  capabilities  of  instructing  and  controlling 
the  commands  commensurate  with  the  grade  to  which  promotion  is 
expected,  as  also  their  efficiency  and  perfect  sobriety.  All  newly- 
elected  (iflicer.s  will  be  examined  before  similar  boards  of  examiners,  to 
determine  their  competency  and  the  confirmation  of  their  election. 

By  command  of  the'Socrctary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjulant  and  Inspector-General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS.")  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-CHsxerai.'s  Office, 

No.  37.  j  Richmond,  May  19,  1862. 

I..Tho  foUowinj^  act,  and  regulations  in  reference  thereto,  arc  pub- 
lished for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

An    act    to  c.vcmpt    certain  persons  /mm    enrolment  for  service    in    the 
<.  armies  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Sec.  1.  7%c  Coni/ressofthc  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  all  per- 
sons wlio  shall  ho  hold  to  be  unfit  for  military  service  under  rules  to  be  proscribed 
by  the  Secretary  of  War ;  all  in  tin-  service  or  employ  of  the  Confederate  States  ; 
all  judicial  and  executive  officers  of  Confederate  or  state  governments;  the  mem- 
bers of  both  houses  of  the  Congress,  aud  of  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  states, 
and  their  respective  officers;  .all  clerks  of  the  officers  of  the  state  and  Confederate 
governments,  allowed  by  law;  all  engaged  in  carrying  the  mails;  all^rrymen  on 
post  routes:  all  pilots  aud  persons  engaged  in  the  marine  service,  and  in  actual 
service  oiv river  and  railroad  routes  of  transportation:  telegraphic  operators,  and 
jninistors  of  religion  in  the  regular  discharge  of  «iinisterial  duties;  all  engaged  iu 
working  iron  mines,  fnrn.aces,  and  founderies;  all  journeymen  printers  actually 
cmployecl  in  printing  newspapers:  all  presidents  and  professors  of  colleges  and 
acadomios,  and  all  teachers  having  as  m.any  as  twenty  scholars;  superintendents 
of  the  public  hospitals,  lunatic  asylums,  and  the  regular  nurses  and  attendants 
tlieiein.  and  llic  teachers  employed  in  the  institutions  for  the  deaf  and  dumb  and 
blind ;  iu  each  apothecary  store  now  established  and  doing  business  one  apothecary 
in  good  staniling.  who  is  apr.actical  druggist;,  superintendents  and  operatives  in 
wool  and  cotton  factories,  who  may  be  exempted  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  shall 
bo  and  are  hereby  exempted  from  military  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confeder- 
ate States.    [Approved  April  21, 1862.] 

II.. By  the  above  act  of  Congress  the  following  classes  of  persons 
are  exempt  from  enrolment  for  military  service : 

Justices  of  the  peace;  sheriffs  and  deputy  sheriffs  ;  clerks  and  deputy 
clerks,  allowed  by  law ;  masters  and  commissioners  iu  chancery ;  dis- 
trict and  state  attorneys;  attorneys  general;  postmasters,  and  deputy 
j)ostuiasters  and  clerks  allowed  by  law;  commissioners  of  revenue, 
and  foreigners  who  have  not  acquired  domicil  in  the  Confederate  States. 

III.  .The  following  are  not  e.\empt: 

Militia  officers  not  in  actual  service ;  persons  exempt  by  state  laws, 
but  not  by  the  above  act;  foreigners  who  have  acquired  domicil  in  the 
Confederate  States. 

IV.. No  persons  other  than  those  cxprcs.^ly  named  or  properly  iiu 
]iliod  in   tho  above  act  can  bo  exempted,  except  by  furui^^hing  a  sub 


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slilute,  exempt  from  military  service,  in  conformity  with  regulations 
already  publistod  (General  Orders,  No.  29):  and  such  exemption  is 
valid  onlj'  so  long  as  the  said  substitute  is  legally  exempt. 

v.. Persons  who  have  fuDiishod  subsstitutes  will  receive  their  certifi- 
cates of  exemption  Irom  the  captains  of  companies,  or  the  command- 
ants of  camps,  by  whom  the  substitutes  have  boon  accepted.  Other 
certificates  of  exemption  will  bo  granted  by  the  enrolling  officers  only, 
who  will  receive  full  instructions  in  regard  to  the  conditions  and  mode 
of  exemption.  Applications  for  e.xemption  can  not  therefore  be  con- 
sidered by  the  War  department. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPEll, 
Adjutant  and  Innpcctor-Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDKRS.)  WAR  DJGPARTMENT, 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Orncc. 

No.  38.  )  Richmond,  May  22, 1862. 

I.. The  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information 
of  all  concerned : 

An  act  to  punish  dninkeuneea  in  the  army. 

Sec.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  any 
commissioned  oflScor  of  the  Regular  or  Provisional  army  who  shall  be  found 
drunk,  either  while  on  or  off  duty,  shall,  on  conviction  thereof  before  a  court  of 
inquiry,  bo  cashiered  or  suspended  from  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  or 
be  publicly  reprimanded,  according  to  the  aggravation  of  the  offence;  and  in  addi- 
tion to  a  sentence  cashiering  any  such  officer,  ho  may  also  be  declared  incapable 
of  holding  any  military  oflRce  under  the  Confederate  States  during  the  war. 

Sec.  2.  Tliat  it  shall  bo  the  duty  of  all  officers  to  report  to  the  commanding  oflS- 
cer  of  the  post,  regiment,  or  corps  to  which  they  belong,  all  cases  coming  under 
their  observation  of  intoxication  of  commissioned  officers,  wliether  of  superior  or 
inferior  grades  to  themselves;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commanding  ofRcer 
of  the  division  or  brigade  to  whicli  said  post,  regiment,  or  corps  belongs,  to  whom 
such  report  may  be  m<adn,  to  report  the  same  to  the  officer  c6mninnding  the  bri- 
gade or  division,  who  shall  oi'ganize  said  court  and  order  the  trial  of  s.'iid  offender 
at  the  earliest  time  consistent  with  the  public  service. 

Sec.  .3.  The  findings  of  any  such  court  shall  bo  promptly  transmitted  to  the 
Secretary  of  War  bj'  the  comniandiug  officer,  together  with  his  approval  or  disap- 
proval thereof,  and  shall  be  reported  to  Congress  at  the  next  session  thereafter  by 
the  a:iid  Secretary.    [Approved  April  21, 1862.] 

II.  .Commexiding  Qenerale  will  isaue  the  neoessary  crdsrs  to  oarry 
into  ejceoation  the  above  aot. 


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III.. Each  battalion  of  sharp-shooters  orgnnized  uudor  the  act  oT 
April  21,  1862  (sec  General  Orders,  No.  34),  will  be  composed  of  sol- 
diers from  the  same  state ;  those  from  different  states  will  not  be 
organized  in  the  same  battalion  of  sharp-shooters. 

IV.. Citizens  of  Maryland  whose  terms  of  service  in  the  Confederate 
States  armj'  have  expired  are  entitled  to  a  discharge;  and,  upon  proper 
evidence  being  furnished,  their  regimental  commanders  will  order  their 
discharge. 

v.. By  General  Orders,  No.  37,  foreigners  who  have  not  acquired 
domirtl  are  exempt  from  service  in  the  Confederate  States  army;  and 
all  snch  foreigners  as  may  have  enlisted  in  said  service  should  be  dis- 
charged by  order  of  their  brigade  commanders  when  their  terms  of 
enlistment  are  at  an  end.  The  ([uestion  of  domicil  or  permanent  re,'?i- 
dence  is,  however,  a  question  of  law,  and  should  be  determined  from 
the  facts  of  the  case,  and  not  by  the  opinion  or  oath  of  the  party. 

VI.  .Regimental  and  company  commanders  will  cause  to  be  made 
out,  and  will  sign  the  "Soldiers  Disciiarge,"  and  "Final  Statement," 
as  in  all  other  cases  of  discharge. 

VII.  .Recruiting  offiocrs  are  required  to  liavc  their  recruits  exam- 
ined by  a  surgeon  before  closing  enlistments.  Two  days  after  a  re- 
cruiting otficer  shall  have  reported  with  his  recruits  to  his  regiment  or 
camp,  the  regimental  conimaniler  will  assemble  a  board  of  examina- 
tion, to  be  composed  of  two  regimental  officers  next  in  rank  to  himself, 
and  the.  regimental  surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon,  who  shall  reject  all 
recruits  unfit  for  service;  and  where  such  unfitness  arises  from  causes 
existing  at  the  time  of  enlistment,  the  names  of  the  recruiting  officer 
and  the  rejected  recruits  shall  be  reported,  with  expenses  incurred  by 
such  enlistments,  to  this  office,  in  order  that  said  expenses  may  be 
reimbursed  to  the  government  by  stoppage  of  the  officer's  pay. 

VIII.  .Upon  the  return  to  their  companies  of  detached  men  who 
have  been  furnished  with  "Descriptive  Lists,"  it  is  the  duty  of  cap- 
tains or  commanders  of  companies  to  take  possession  of  such  descrip- 
tive lists,  and,  sliould  tho  soldier  bo  again  detached,  to  furpisb  him  a. 
now  one.  Payments  upon  descriptive  lists  will  bo  made  only  in  caaea 
of  necessity,  and  then  only  up  to  the  date  of  last  muster. 

IX.. Paragraph  2d  of  General  Order,  No.  31,  of  28th  April,  1862,  is 
so  modified  as  to  make  Augusta,  Georgia,  the  depot  for  sugar  and 
raolas3ss  shipped  from  Jackson,  Mississippi,  or  places  contiguous 
thoreto,  for  tranprniesiin  to  other  point?,  and  a1sv'>  frr  the  trau?mispiou 


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of  brcadstuffs,    flour,    and  rice,   marked   R.    H.    Mouncc,  to  Jackson, 
Mississippi,  for  the  benefit  of  tlie  needy  of  the  adjoining  states. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.)  WAR   DEPARTMENT, 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  39.  J  Richmond,  May  26,  1862. 


I.. The  second  paragraph  of  General  Orders,  No.  36,  is  hereby  re- 
voked, and  the  following  substituted  therefor :  When  an  officer  elected 
or  promoted  in  the  Provisional  army  by  reason  of  seniority,  is  by  law 
to  be  commissioned  by  the  President,  and  there  is  reasonable  ground 
to  doubt  his  qualifications  or  fitness  for  the  commission,  his  brigade 
commander,  if  there  be  one,  or  if  not,  then  his  division  commander, 
will  assemble  a  board  of  not  less  than  three  commissioned  officers  of 
equal  or  superior  rank  to  the  officer  elected  or  promoted,  who  shall 
inquire  into  bis  qualifications  and  fitness  for  the  commission,  and  shall 
report  to  this  ofiBce,  for  the  information  of  the  War  department,  the 
facts  of  the  case,  and  their  own  opinion  of  the  qualifications  and  fitness 
of  the  officer.  This  order  will'  apply  to  all  persons  not  yet  commis- 
sioned or  recognized  as  in  commission  by  the  department. 

II.. The  limits  of  Department  No.  1,  under  command  of  Major- 
General  Lovell,  will  hereafter  embrace  that  portion  of  the  State  of 
Mississippi  south  of  the  33d  parallel,  and  west  of  Pascagoula  and 
Chickasawha  rivers,  including  also  that  part  of  the  State  of  Louisiana 
east  of  the  Mississippi  river. 

III.  .Department  No.  2,  under  command  of  General  Beauregard,  is 
extended  south  to  the  33d  parallel  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and 
extending  on  that  parallel  to  the  eastern  boundary  of  Alabama. 

IV.. The  boundary  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  department  will  em- 
brace the  States  of  Missouri  and  Arkansas,  including  the  Indian  Ter- 
ritory, the  State  of  Louisiana  west  of  the  Mississippi,  and  the  State  of 
Texas. 

V.  .Frequent  complaints  having  been  made  of  injury  to  fencing  and 
to  the  grounds  on  or  near  which  troops  have  encamped,  attention  is 
called  to  the  983d  paragraph  of  the  Army  Regulations,  which  requires 
the  commanding  oflicer  and  (luartormastor  to  make  an  inspection  of 


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buildings  occupied  as  barracks,  quarters,  or  lands  occupied  for  en- 
campments when  they  are  vacated,  and  a  report  to  be  made  to  the 
Quartermaster-General  of  their  condition,  and  of  any  injury  to  them 
by  the  use  of  the  troops. 

This  regulation  will  be  strictly  enforced;  and  in  ease  6f  injury  not 
reported  bj'  the  commanding  officer  and  quartermaster,  titey  will  be 
charged  on  their  pay  account  of  the  troops  with  the  damage  done.  If 
report  be  made,  it  must  specify  by  whom  the  injury  was  inflicted,  and 
the  deduction,  in  such  case,  will  be  made  from  the  pay  of  the  offending 
party. 

VI.  .Ilereafter  Brigadier-Generals  will  have  timely  requisitions  made 
for  all  blanks  issued  from  this  office,  in  order  that  they  may  be  for- 
warded for  early  distribution. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  niid  luspector-Ucncral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS."}  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  40.  )  Richmond,  May  29, 1862. 

I-  .The  following  act  of  Congress,  antl  regulations  in  reference  there- 
to, •iire  published  for  the  inforuiation  of  the  army: 

As  act  to  organize  a  iSi'(/nal  Corps. 

Sec  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Ckmjederate  States  of  Am^erica  do  enact,  That  the 
President  be  and  is  hereby  authorized,  by  and  witli  the  advice  iind  consent  of  tiie 
Senate,  to  apiioiiit  ten  officers  in  the  Provisional  army,  of  a  grade  not  exceeding 
that  of  cajitaiiis,  and  with  the  pay  of  corresponding  grades  of  infantry,  who  sliall 
perform  tlie  duties  uf  signal  ollicors  of  the  army.  And  the  President  is  liereby 
autliorized  to  appoint  ten  sergeants  of  infantry  in  the  Provisional  army,  and  to 
assign  them  to  duty  as  signal  sergeants.  TIio  signal  corps  above  authorized  may 
be  organized  as  a  separate  corps,  or  may  be  attiiclie<l  to  the  department  of  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  or  to'the  Engineer  coi-ps.  as  the  Secretary  of  War 
shall  direct.     [Approved  April  19.  18()2.| 

II.. The  signal  corps  authorized  by  this  act  will  be  attached  to  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gcnerars-dopartmcnt:  and  officers  of  that  de- 
partment may  be  instructed  in  and  assigned  to  signal  dutj'. 

III.. A  signal  ofRcer  will  be  attached  to  the  staff  of  each  General  or 
Major-Gcnoral  in  command  of  a  corps,  and  of  each  Major-Gcncr.al  in 


oomniand  of  a  division.  These  signal  officers  ^ill  each  be  assisted  b^' 
as  many  signal  sergeants,  and  instructed  non-commissioned  officora 
and  privates,  selected  from  the  ranks  for  their  intelligence  and  re- 
liability, as  circumstances  may  require;  and  as  many  lance  sergeants 
as  are  required  may  be  appointed.  Such  non-commissioned  officers 
and  privates  may  be  detailed  for  this  duty  by  the  Generals  in  whoso 
command  they  are  serving.  Before  being  instructed,  they  will  each  be 
required  by  the  signal  officer  to  take  an  oath  riot  to  divulge,  directly  or 
indirectly,  the  system  of  signals,  the  alphabet,  or  any  official  message 
sent  or  received  thereby.  Non-commissioned  officers,  while  on  signal 
duty,  and  privates  on  this  duty,  will  receive  forty  cents  per  day  extra 
pay. 

IV.  .Commissioned  officers  of  the  signal  corps,  or  officers  serving  on 
signal  duty,  will  be  entitled  to  the  forage  and  allowance  of  officers  of 
similar  rank  in  the  cavalry.  Non-commissioned  officers  and  privates 
on  signal  duty  will  be  mounted  by  the  quartermaster,  on  the  order  of 
the  Commanding  General. 

V.  .Requisitions  for  flags,  torches,  glasses,  and  all  the  material  re- 
quired, will  be  made  on  the  Quartermaster's  department,  or  they  may 
be  purchased  by  the  quartermaster  of  any  division,  on  the  order  of  the 
Major-General  commanding. 

VI.. On  the  order  of  a  General  commanding  a  corps,  other  officers, 
non-commissioned  officers,  or  privates  than  those  regularly  on  signal 
duty,  may  be  instructed  in  the  system  of  signals,  after  having  taken 
the  oath  prescribed  above.  Wherever  it  is  practicable,  it  is  specially 
recommended  to  all  general  officerl  to  have  their  assistant  adjutant- 
generals  and  aides-de-camp  instructed. 

VII.  .Whatever  is  prescribed  herein  for  a  division,  or  for  a  Major- 
General,  will  be  observed  in  the  case  of  each  brigade  which  constitutes 
a  separate  command. 

VIII.. All  officers  and  non-commissioned  officers  accepting  appoint- 
ments to  the  signal  corps,  will  forward  with  their  acceptances  the  oath 
prescribed  above,  sworn  to  before  a  magistrate,  notary  public,  or  com- 
missioned officer  of  the  corps. 

IX.  .Quarterly  returns  of  signal  property  will  be  made  by  all  officers 
having  it  in  charge  to  the  Quartermaster's  department,  and  the  senior 
signal  officer  of  each  separate  army  in  the  field  will  report  quarterly  to 
the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  the  number  and  organization  of 
the  signal  corps  of  the  army,  and  its  general  operations  during  the  pre- 
vious quarter. 


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X.  .It  will  be  the  duty  of  the  signal  oflSeer  of  every  division  in  the 
field  to  instruct  the  adjutant  of  each  regiment  in  the  division  in  the 
system  of  signals  in  use  in  the  army. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War- 

8.  COOPER, 
Adjut<int  and  Intpector- General. 


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UENERAL  ORDERS.)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

v  Ad.tutant  ani>  Inspector -General's  Office, 

No.  41.  j  RicoMOND,  May  31.  1862. 

I.  .General  officers  and  ofllcers  in  command  of  departments,  districts, 
and  separate  posts,  will  make  a  detail  of  men  from  their  commands  to 
work  the  nitre  caves  which  may  be  situated  within  the  limits  of  their 
respective  commands.  These  details  will  be  made  on  the  requisition  of 
the  oflBccr  in  charge  of  the  Nitre  bureau  in  the  War  department.  The 
men  thus  detailed  will  be  organized  temporarily  under  the  command  of 
the  nitre  officer  in  charge  <5f  the  particular  cave,  who  will  make  monthly 
reports  to  the  General  or  other  officer  commanding  the  department, 
district,  or  post  in  which  the  cave  may  be  located,  in  order  that  such 
commanding  o-fficer  may  treat  as  deserters  such  of  the  detailed  men  aa 
maj'  leave  the  works  without  permission.  And  it  is  enjoined  upon  Gen- 
erals and  other  commanding  officers  to  give  protection,  as  far  as  possi- 
ble, and  to  the  cstent  of  their  means,  against  any  encroachments  of  the 
enemj'  upon  the  nitre  caves  within  the  limits  of  their  commands. 

TI.  .All  persons  in  the  employment  of  the  Nitre  bureau,  whether  con- 
tractors for  manufacturing  saltpetre,  or  laborers  in  their  employment, 
are  exempt  by  law  from  enrolment. 

III.  .Officers  of  the  Quartermaster  and  Commissary  departments  will 
furnish  the  officers  and  men  of  the  Nitre  bureau  with  provision  and 
forage,  as  in  the  case  of  ordnance  officers  and  men  in  the  field. 

IV.. Officers  of  the  Nitre  bureau  are  authorized  to  impress  free  ne- 
groes for  the  purpose  of  working  the  nitre  caves,  who  will  be  paid 
wages,  and  be  furnished  with  subsistence. 

v.. Paragraph  No.  161,  General  Regulations  of  the  Army,  relating 
to  discharges  in  hospital,  is  so  far  modified  as  to  dispense  with  the 
necessity  of  sending  certificates  of  disability,  in^the  case  of  soldiers 
sick  in  the  hospitals  in  Richmond,  to  the  commandants  of  regiments, 
where  tommunication  with  them  is  difficult  and  «the  cases  urgent.     In 


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all  such  cases,  the  certificate  will  be  sent  to  Brigadier-General  John 
H.  Winder,  commanding  the  department  of  Henrico,  who  will  grant 
the  discharge,  and  notify  the  same  to  the  regimental  commander,  who 
will  cause  .the  final  statements  in  each  case  of  discharge  to  be  made  out 
and  sent  to  the  officer  granting  the  discharge,  for  the  benefit  otj^the 
discharged  soldier. 

VI.  .The  following  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 
The  act  No.  52,  approved  March  6,  1861,  section  19,  provides,  "that 
there  shall  be  allowed,  in  addition  to  the  pay  herein  before  provided, 
to  every  commissioned  officer,  except  the  Surgeon-Greueral,  nine  dollars 
per  month  for  every  five  years  service;  and  to  the  officers  of  the  army 
of  the  United  States,  who  have  resigned',  or  may  resign,  to  be  received 
into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  this  additional  pay  shall  be 
allowed  from  the  date  of  their  entrance  into  the  former  service." 

The  foregoing  act  applies  to  all  officers  of  the  United  States  army 
who  have  resigned  from  that  army,  to  be  received  into  the  Service  of 
the  Confederate  States,  whether  in  the  Regular  or  Provisional  army. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  mnl  luspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspectok-General's  Office, 

No.  42.  )  Richmond,  June  11,  1862. 

I.  .Provost  marshals  are  prohibited  from  taking  cognizance  of  civil 
cases. 

II.  .When  martial  law  has  been  proclaimed,  the  civil  tribunals  are 
authorized  to  take  cognizance  of  civil  cases  to  the  extent  of  granting 
injunctions  as  usual,  Avlien  it  is  necessary  to  prevent  irreparable  mis- 
chief, to  make  orders  necessary  to  enforce  the  same,  and  to  secure  the 
custody  of  infants  in  persons  entitled  thereto,  to  decide  suits  for  divorce, 
and  to  make  the  necessary  orders  for  alimony  and  personal  safety  of 
the  parties,  to  recover  rents  and  the  possession  of  real  estates  and  slaves. 

III.  .When  the  officers  of  the  court  can  not.execute  the  judgments, 
decrees,  and  orders  in  the  cases  above  mentioned,  they  may  be  certified 
to  the  provost  marshal,  who  Avill  receive  instructions  to  carry  them  into 
elfoct. 

By  commaml  of  th(^  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPERr 

Ailjiii<uil  mill   fiisprcthr-Ci'in-yol. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Ojeneral's  Office, 

No.  43.  )  Richmond,  June  13, 1S62. 

I.. With  fhc  consent  and  approbation  of  bis  Excellency  Governor 
Letcher,  all  sheriffs,  deputj'  sheriffs,  and  constables  of  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia are  authorized  and  requested  to  apprehend  deserters  from  the 
army,  wherever  they  may  be  found,  and  to  deliver  them  to  an  officer  of 
the  army,  at  the  most  convenient  post  or  station,  or  to  lodge  them  in 
jail,  and  report  their  names  and  regiments  to  General  S-  Cooper,  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector-General,  Richmond.  Thirty  dollars  will  bo  paid  for 
all  deserters  delivered  to  an  officer,  and  fifteen  dollars  for  each  deserter 
lodged  in  jail.  ,  No  allowance  will  be  made  for  the  expenses  of  .appre- 
hension and  transportation.  AUj.ailors  receiving  deserters  are  request- 
ed to  detain  them.  The  usual  allowance  for  the  support  of  prisoners  i 
will  be  made. 

II.  .Tr.'insfcrs. from  the  line  to  partis.an  corps  will  not  be  permitted  ; 
and  if  any  officer  of  partisan  corps  knowingly  enlist  them  from  the 
line,  the  authority  to  raise  the  pnrtisan  corps  will  bo  revoked,  in  .addi- 
tion to  such  punishment  as  a  court  m.aTtial  may  inflict. 

III.. The  attention  of  officers  in  command  of  forts  .and  other  posi- 
tions is  called  to  the  necessity  of  making  every  exertion,  upon  with- 
drawal, to  save  the  ammunition  and  powder  under  their  control.  The 
waste  which  has  lately  occurred  on  such  occasions,  will,  if  continued, 
produce  great  mischief,  and,  possibly,  irreparable  loss. 

IV.  .All  officers  paying  bounty  to  volunteers  before  having  them  ex- 
amined by  an  army  surgeon,  or  assistant,  surgeon,  and  duly  mustered 
into  the  service,  will  be  required  to  refund  it  themselves. 

V.  .Commanders  of  regiments,  or  other  corps  having  medical  oflicers, 
will  report  the  nainesof  the  surgeons  and  assistant  surgeons  who  lose 
tlieir  surgical  instruments,  or  who  from  any  cause  appear  on  the  field 
without  surgical  instruments,  or  undertake  to  discharge  their  regimental 
duties  without  them. 

VI.. When  vacancies  occur  among  the  companj-  ollieers  of  reorgan- 
ized regiments,  the  brig.ade  comman^ler  will  .announce,  in  orders,  the 
promotion  of  the  officer  next  in  rank  in  the  companj'  in  which  such 
vacancies  exist,  except  in  Ciiscs  covered  by  paragraph  II  of  Gener.al 
Orders,  No.  36,  current  series.  A  copy  of  the  order  will  in  all  cases  be 
furnished  to  this  office  for  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 

Ailjntinil  iiixf  /iiKp,;-for-(!rii<'!<i/. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,)  WA.K  DEPARTMENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  iNSPJicroR-GENERAL's  Offick, 

■    No.  44.  i  RicuMOND,  June  17,  1801!. 

I.. At  the  explication  of  their  term  of  service,  all  paroled  prisoners 
who  arc  not  enlisted  for  the  war  will  have  their  names  dropped  from 
the  muster  rolls,  and  will  be  discharged  the  service  of  the  Coufcderate 
Statea.  The  commissions  of  the  officer.s  will  expire  with  the  terms  of 
their  men. 

II.. No  persons,  other  than  those  authorized  by  the  Commanding 
General  of  an  army,  or  the  commanding  officers  of  districts  under  mar- 
tial law,  shall  be  recognized  as  agents  for  taking  possession  of  private 
property.  These  agents,  before  making  any  impressments,  shall  pre- 
sent their  written  authority,  and  when  they  take  property  their  receipts 
shall  designate  the  officer  who  is  to  pay  for  it. 

III.  .Congress  having  conferred  on  the  President  the  right  during 
the  existing  war  "to  take  such  control  of  the  lines  of  telegraph  in  the 
Confederate  States,  and  of  suoh  oflSces  connected  therewith  as  will 
enable  him  effectually  to  supervise  the  communications  passing  through 
the  same,"  and  to  exercise  other  powers  in  reference  to  telegraph  lines, 
and  the  President  having  charged  the  Postmaster- General  with  the  dis- 
charge of  these  duties,  requisitions  for  building  lines,  the  establishment 
and  discontinuance  of  offices,  the  appointment  of  operators  and  agents, 
the  disposition  of  material,  etc.,  must  be  addressed  to  the  Postmaster- 
General,  and  officers  are  prohibited  from  exercising  these  powers. 

IV.  .To  prevent  misconception  in  reference  to  the  discharge  of  men 
under  eighteen  and  over  thirty-five  years  of  age,  under  the  Conscript 
act,  the  army  is  informed  that  only  such  persons  as  have  not  re-enlisted 
for  three  years  or  the  war  will  be  entitled  to  their  discharge  on  the  16th 
of  July  next.  Those  of  the  ages  above  mentioned  who  have  so  re- 
enlisted,  whether  they  are  in  twelve  months  regiments  or  war  regiments, 
are  not  entitled  to  discharge  until  they  have  served  out  their  terms  of 
enlistment. 

V.  .Regimental  medical  officers,  when  in  charge  of  patients  brought 
to  general  hospitals,  or  in  the  vicinity  of  the  same,  will  turn  them  over 
to  the  surgeons  in  charge,  and  return  without  delay  to  their  legitimate 
duties.       • 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant,  and  Inspector  Ocne.ral. 


.VJ 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

y  Adjutant  and  I.nspector-Gexerai,'s  Office, 

No.  45.  J  .  KicnMOND.  June  26,  1862. 

I.. A  (icneral  Intelligence  office,  to  enable  the  friends  of  the  sick 
and  wounded  ^^o  find  tbcm  out,  and  to  facilitate  communication  with 
the  armj',  is  hereby  established.  Military  commanders  and  surgeons 
will  a£ford  all  the  means  in  their  power  to  promote  the  ends  of  its 
establishment. 

II.. Medical  ofiicers,  taken  prisoners  of  war  by  the  armies  of  the 
Confederate  States,  will  be  immediatelj'  and  unconditionally  discharged. 

III.. The  Government  of  the  United  States  having  recognized  the 
principle  that  medical  officers  should  not  be  held  as  prisoners  of  war, 
and  having  ordered  the  immediate  and  unconditional  release  of  all 
medical  otficers  so  held,  all  medical  officers  of  the  Confederate  States 
now  on  parole  are  hereby  discharged  from  their  parole. 

IV.  .Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  31,  current  series,  is  so 
modified  as  to  designate  Augusta,  Georgia,  as  the  point  from  which 
breadstuflfs  may  be  transported  to  Jackson,  Mississippi,  and  to  which 
shipments  of  sugar  and  molasses  may  bo  made  from  .Jackson,  Missis- 
sippi. 

IJy  command  of  the  Secrfctary  of  War. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-Oentral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPAKTMENT. 

Y  Adjutant  and  iNPECTou-OKNf.RAL's  Officf. 

No.  46.  J  Richmond,  July  1, 1862. 

I.. The  following  regulations  arc  published  for  the  information  of 
the  army  : 

1.  Paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  24,  current  series,  is  so 
modified  as  to  permit  the  appointment  of  brigade  ordnance  officers, 
who  shall  have  the  rank  and  pay  of  first  lieutenants  of  artillery. 

2.  Brigade  ordnance  officers  so  appointed  will  be  subject  to  the 
division  ordnance  officers,  so  far  as  relates  to  ordnance  duties,  and 
will  make  requisitions  on  them.  They  will  also  make  such  reports  as 
ma.v  be  required  to  the  division  ordnance  officers. 

3.  Ordnance  sergeants  of  regiments  will  be  subject  to,  and  make 
reports  to  the  brigade  ordnance  officers. 


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4.  Since,  the  act  of  April  19,  1862,  providing  an  ordnance  sergeant 
to  each  regiment,  the  acting  appointees,  authorized  under  General 
Orders,  No.  24,  current  series,, iind  made  by  colonels  of  regiments,  will 
be  reported  for  appointment  under  the  above  act,  in  ca'Sr.-i -where  such 
report  has  not  been  made  to  the  Ordnance  bureau.  Ilereafter  the 
appointments  will  be  made  to  regiments  as  to  military  posts,  by  the 
Secretary  of  War,  and  upon  the  recommendation  of  colonels  of  regi- 
ments, through  the  Ordnance  bureau,  the  non-commissioned  officers 
recommended  being  at  once  placed  upon  duty  in  anticipation  of  the 
appointment. 

II.  .Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  44,  current  series,  is  hereby 
rescinded,  and  the  following  paragraph  is  substituted  in  lieu  thereof: 

Persons  under  eighteen  and  over  thirty-five  years  of  age,  who  have 
re-enlisted  for  three  years  or  the  war,  are  not  entitled  to  their  dis- 
charge under  the  Conscript  act.  Persons  of  the  ages  above  mentioned, 
who  enlisted  for  twelve  months,  or  for  a  shorter  term,  will  be  entitled 
to  thoir  discharge  ninety  days  after  the  expiration  of  their  term  of 
service. 

III.. All  chaplains  taken  prisoners  of  war  by  the  armies  of  the 
Confederate  States,  while  engaged  in  the  discharge  of  their  proper 
duties,  will  be  immediatelj'  and  unconditionally  released. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Innjjector-GeiierdL 


GENEKAL  ORDERS,  )  ■      WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  47.  )  Richmond,  July  9.  1862. 

I.. The  reception  of  unnaturalized  foreigners  as  substitutes  in  the 
army  is  hereby  forbidden. 

II.  .Commissioned  officers  of  new  companies,  battalions,  and  regi- 
ments coming  into  service,  will  take  rank  ffom  the  date  of  acceptance 
in  the  service  .of  the  Confederate  States ;  which  date  of  acceptance 
will  not  iirecede  the  complete  organization  of  the  company,  battalion, 
or  regiment,  the  proof  of  which  will  be  considered  in  the  act  of  miistei', 
or  of  any  exercise  of  authority  by  the  Confederate  States  over  the 
company,  battalion,  or  regiment. 


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III.. Where  companies  of  the  same  battalion  or  regiment  enter  the 
service  on  the  same  day,  the  relative  rank  of  the  fiffieors  of  the  same 
grade  therein  will  be  determined  by  lot,  except  in  the  ca«c  of  former 
commissions  in  the  Confederate  service,  when  the  6th  paragraph  of  the 
General  Regulations  of  the  Army  will  goveru. 

IV.. The  relative  rank  of  commissioned  olficcrs  of  companies,  bat- 
talions, or  regiments,  who  continue  in  service  by  re-election  to  the  same 
grade  in  the  same  corps,  will  ba  fixed  by  the  date  of  their  original 
election  or  appointment;  but  those  who  change  their  grade  or  corps 
by  re-election  will  take  rank  from  the  date  of  such  re-election. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  und  iHnpectoi'-Gciicral. 


GENERAL  OUDEUS")  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

V  Adjutant  and  lNSPEcT0R-(iENEUAL's  Office, 

No.  48.  J  Richmond.  July  11,  18(32. 

I.  .The  ajipoiiitments  of  general  officers  and  oflSccrs  of  the  general 
staff  in  the  Provisional  army  being  made  under  special  authority,  and 
for  specific  objects,  terminate  with  their  commands,  except  in  case  of 
assignment  to  other  appropriate  duties. 

II.. General  Orders,  No.  17,  Adjutant  and  Inspoctor-GencraVs  office, 
November  7th,  1861.  authorizing  discharges  from  the  service  and  fur- 
loughs by  brigade  commanders,  are  hereby  revoked. 

III.  .Paragraphs  160  and  161,  Regulations  for  the  Army,  published 
March  13,  1862,  are  revoked,  and  the  following  regulations  are  substi- 
tuted : 

160.  When  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  soldier  shall  bo  unfit  for 
military  service  in  consequence  of  wounds,  disease,  or  infirmity,  his 
captain  shall  forward  to  the  commandant  of  the  department,  or  of  the 
acmy  in  the  field,  through  tl^e  commander  of  the  regiment  or  post,  a 
statement  of  the  case,  with"  certificates  of  disability,"  signed  by  the 
senior  surgeon  of  the  regiment  or  post,  according  to  the  form  pre- 
scribed in  the  medical  regulations.  If  the  rccommoudatiun  for  the 
discharge  of  the  invalid  li  ■  approved,  the  authority  therefor  will-bo 
endorsed  on  the  "  ccrtifiojites  of  disability,"  which  will  be  sent  back  to 
bo  completed  and  signed  by  the  cammauding  oliicer  of  the  regiment  or 
command  to  which  the  invalid's  company  belongs,  who  will  also  sign 


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(lie  discharge,  and  cause  the  final  statements  to  bo  uiadc  out,  and 
forward  the  certificates  of  disability  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General. 

161.  When  a  non-commissioned  olfio.er  or  soldier  is  absent  from  his 
regiment  or  company,  in  hospital,  and  shall  be  unfit  for  military  ser- 
vice, for  the  reasons  set  forth  in  the  preceding  paragraph,  the  senior 
surgeon  of  the  hospital  will  make  out  "  certificates  of  disability,"  and 
forward  them,  through  the  commander  of  the  company  or  regiment,  to 
the  commander  of  the  department,  or  of  the  army  in  the  field,  whose 
approval  being  given,  the  commanding  oflicer  will  complete  and  for- 
ward the  certificates  of  disability  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gen- 
eral, and  send  the  papers  of  discharge  to  the  surgeon.  But  when  access 
to  commanders  is  difiicult,  and  attended  with  great  delay,  the  certifi- 
cates of  disability  may,  in  urgent  cases,  be  forwarded  by  the  surgeon 
to  the  Surgeon-General  for  approval:  which  being  given,  the  discharge 
will  be  authorized  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  oflioe; 
and  the  surgeon  will  make  out  final  statements. 

I  v..  Medical  officers  arc  prohibited  from  recommending  leaves  of 
absence  and  furloughs  to  sick  and  wounded  oflScers  and  soldiers,  except 
when  it  is  absolutely  necessary  for  them  to  go  home  to  bo  restored  to 
health  ;  in  which  case  the  soldier  only  will  bo  entitled  to  transportation 
to  be  given  in  kind. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

iS.  COOPER, 
Aiijntant  and  Inspcctor-G cncral . 


GKNKRAL  0RDE15S.1  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector*  ibneral's  Office, 

N(i.  49.  j  Richmond,  July  14.  1862. 

All  persons  engaged  in  enrolling  conscripts  are  hereby  authorized 
and  re((uired  to  arrest  deserters  from  the  army,  and  to  deliver  them  to 
the  commandant  of  the  nearest  camp  of  instruction,  or  to  lodge  them 
in  the  nearest  jail,  and  to  return  their  navies,  company,  and  regiment  to 
the  Adjutant  and  luspector-OenGral. 

Jailors  are  requested  to  detain  them,  and  will  be  allowed  the  fees  and 
charges  for  the  dGtention  of  prisoners  prencribed  by  the  laws  of  the 
^^ate  iu  which  the  jail  is  situated. 

Enrolling  officers  are  aleo  required  to  report  to  the  Adjutant  and 
Inspectcr-Se-neral  tha  narijes  and  addr^sB  of  all  perscns  absent  from 


tho  army,  witbDut  leave,  whether  by  the  expiration  of  their  leaves  of 
absence,  furloughs,  detail?,  or  otherwise:  and  where  this  unauthorized 
absence  exceeds  tho  time  required  to  correspond  with  the  War  depart- 
ment, the  ourolling  officer  will  arrest  the  person,  and  send  him  to  the 
nearest  camp  of  instruction,  reporting  the  arrest  to  the  Adjutant  and 
Inspector-General. 

Commandants  of  camps  of  instruction  are  required  to  forward  desert- 
ers and  persons  absent  without  leave  to  their  rogiraonts,  and  have  the 
powers  of  arrest  conferred  upon  enrolling  officers. 

By  command  of  tho  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  nud  fttipcclor-Geiicral- 


GENEKAL  ORDERS.  1  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  APJVtTANT    AM)   IKSPECTOR-GENERAI.'S   OFFICE, 

No.  ,50.  )  RjCHMONP.  July  18,  1862. 

I. .  Conscripts  engaged  on  government  work,  cither  directly  or  by 
contractors,  will  not  bo  taken  from  the  work  on  which  thej*  are 
engaged,  except  for  the  puritosc  of  enrolment,  after  which  they  will  be 
returned  on  the  certificate  of  the  otBcer  under  whoso  charge  the  work 
is  being  performed,  or  with  whom  the  contract  is  made.  Such  certifi- 
cate will  be  presented  to  the  enrolling  officer,  who  will  thereupon  order 
tho  detail  of  tbe  men  specified  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  sixty  days. 
A  duplicate  of  such  detail  will  be  forwarded  at  once  to  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-General,  and  a  triplicate  to  the  Chief  of  the  department 
or  bureau  for  which  tho  work  is  performed. 

Extensions  of  these  details  will  be  made  when  deemed  necessary,  on 
application  through  the  heads  of  the  departments  or  bureaus. 

II.  .Military  department  No.  2  will  embrace  the  States  o<  Missis- 
sipi,  Alabama,  East  Louisiana,  and  that  part  of  Florida  which  is  west 
of  the  Chattahoochee  and  Appalachicoht  rivers. 

III.. The  Department  of  East  Tennessee  will  include  that  part  of 
the  State  of  Georgia  which  is  north  of  tho  railroad  leading  from 
Augusta,  via  Atlanta,  to  West  Point,  and  so  much  of  North  Carolina 
as  is  west  of  the  Blue  Ridge  mountains  in  that  state. 

IV.  .Conscripts  will  be  paid  from  the  date  of  their  departure  from 
horns  for  oamp  of  instruction.  Troops  raiasd  by  the  states  under 
requisitions  made  on  them  by  the  Confederate  States  government  ^rill 


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be  paid  from  the  date  of  their  assembling  at  the  rendezvous  for  ser- 
vice, being  already  enlisted,  or  from  the  date  of  the  enlistment,  if  that 
takes  place  at  the  rendezvous.  • 

V.  .The  only  authority  giving  mileage  or  transportation  to  ofticers  of 
soldiers  in  the  field,  emanates  from  the  General  commanding  the  par- 
ticular army. 

VI.. Arms  and  munitions  of  war  belonging  to  states  are  strictly 
prohibited  from  being  seized  by  any  Confederate  officer ;  and  public 
arms  and  supplies  will  not  be  diverted  from  their  legitimate  destination 
by  any  officer  of  the  army. 

By  command  of  thp  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


CtENKRAL  OKDEKS,  I  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  AUJUTANT   AND   INSPECTOR-GeNF.UAL'S   OFFICE, 

No.  51.  )  Richmond,  Ju1>/  22,  1SG2. 

The  successful  defence  of  Vieksburg  against  the  mortar  fleet  of  the 
enemy  by  Major-General  Van  Dorn  and  the  officers  and  men  under 
his  command  entitles  them  to  the  gratitude  of  the  country,  the  thanks 
of  the  government,  and  the  admiration  of  the  armyf.->  By  their  gal- 
lantry and  good  conduct  they  have  not  only  saved  the  city  entrusted 
to  them,  but  they  have  shown  that  bombardments  of  cities,  if  bravely 
relisted,  achieve  nothing  for  the  enemy,  and  only  serve  to  unveil  his 
malice  and  the  hypocrisy  of  his  pretended  wish  to  restore  the  Union. 
The  world  now  sees  that  his  mission  is  one  of  destruction,  not  restora- 
tion". 

Lieutenant  Biiown,  and  the  officers  and  crew  of  the  Confederate 
steamer  Arkansas,  by  their  heroic  attack  upon  the  Federal  fleet  before 
Vieksburg  equalled  the  highest  reworded  examples  of  courage  and  skill. 
They  prove  that  the  navy,  when  it  regains  its  proper  element,  will  be 
one  of  the  chief  bulwarks  of  national  defence,  and  that  it  is  entitled  to 
a  high  place  in  the  confidence  and  affection  of  the  country. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjiildiil  <iitd  Inspi'ctor-Generul. 


05 

GKNERAL  ORDERS,  |  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

>  Adjutant  and  Tnspfctor-Generax's  Office, 

No.  52.  )  Richmond.  July  23, 1862. 

I. .  It  will  be  the  duty  of  the  Commanding  Generals  of  separate  armies 
to  cause  to  1)c  entered,  in  some  conspicuous  place  on  the  standards  of 
regiments,  battalions,  and  separately  organized  squadrons  of  their  com- 
mands, the  names  of  the  several  battles  in  which  their  regiments,  bat- 
talions, and  separate  squadrons  have  been  actiially  engaged. 

IT.  .With  a  view  to  carry  into  cfloct  so  much  of  the  act  of  April  21, 
1862,  as  provides  "that  the  President  may,  when  in  his  opinion  it  is 
proper,  fill  any  vacancy,  by  the  promotion  of  any  officer  from  any  com- 
pany, battalion,  squadron,  or  regiment  in  which  the  same  may  occur, 
who  shall  have  been  distinguished  in  service  by  the  exhibition  of  ex- 
tr:M)rdinary  valor  or  skill,  and  that  when  any  vacancy  shall  occur  in 
the  lowest  grade  of  commissioned  officer  of  any  company,  the  same 
ni.ay  be  filled  by  selection,  by  the  President,  of  any  non-commissioned 
officer  or  private  from  the  company  in  which  the  said  vacancy^  may 
occur  who  shall  have  been  distinguished  in  the  service  by  the  exhibition 
of  extraordinary  valor  and  skill,"  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  several 
commanding  olRoers  herein  referred  to  to  furnish  reports,  setting  forth 
the  facts  and  circumstances  of  the  "extraordinary  valor  and  skill" 
displayed  by  such  officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  and  privates  as 
may  be  recommended  by  them  for  promotion,  agreeably  to  the  provision 
of  this  act.  These  reports  will  be  passed  through  the  ascending  chan- 
nel of  communication  provided  by  the  Army  Regulations  to  the  Com- 
manding General,  who  will  forward  the  same,  with  such  remarks  as  ho 
may  deem  necessary,  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  for  the 
action  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

III.. The  employees  of  railroad  companies  are  authorized  and  re- 
quested to  examine  the  passes  and  furloughs  of  soldiers  passing  over 
their  roads,  and  to  arrest  all  deserters  and  persons  absent  without  leave 
from  the  arm}',  whenever  they  may  be  found  on  said  roads,  and  to 
deliver  them  to  an  officer  of  the  army  at  the  most  convenient  post  or 
station,  or  to  lodge  them  in  jail,  and  report  their  names  and  regiments 
to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  Richmond.  Thirty  dollars  will 
be  paid  for  all  deserters  delivered  to  an  officer,  and  fifteen  dollars  for 
each  deserter  lodged  in  jail.  No  allowance  will  he  made  for  the  ex- 
penses of  apprehension  and  transportation.  All  jailors  receiving  de- 
serters are  requested  to  detain  them.  The  usual  allowance  for  prisoners 
will  be  made. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

•  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  iind  funjiector-Gcneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"}  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

y  ACJOTANT   AND  InSPECTOR-GeNERAL'S   OFFICE, 

No.  53.  j  Richmond,  Jtily  31,  1862. 

I.. Persons  ivho  are  liable  to  conscription  under  the  act  of  April  16, 
1862,  will  not  be  taken  to  serve  as  partisan  rangers.  Such  as  may  be 
engaged  for  that  branch  of  service  must  be  over  thirty-five  years  of 
age. 

II.  .Only  aides-de-camp  are  to  be  considercdas  the  personal  staff  of 
general  officers;  all  other  general  staff  officers  assigned  to  the  com- 
mands of  general  officers,  or  who  may  be  attached  by  assignment  to 
their  respective  head-quarters,  will  be  regarded  as  forming  a  part  of 
their  entire  commands;  and  any  change  of  commanding  officers  in  such 
commands  will  not  imply  a  change  in  the  assignment  of  the  general 
staff  officers. 

III.  .Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  44,  current  series,  is  hereby 
revoked,  and  all  paroled  prisoners  whose  regimefits  arc  in  the  East  will 
report  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  those  whose  regiments  arc  in  the 
West  at  Vicksburg,  Mississippi. 

IV.. All  seizures  and  impressments  of  any  description  of  property 
whatever,  and  especially  of  arms  and  ordnance  stores  belonging  to  the 
states  of  the  Confederacy,  are  hereby  prohibited,  and  officers  of  the 
Confederate  States  army  are  enjoined  to  abstain  carefully  from  such 
seizures  and  impressments;  and  in  case  they  are  made  by  mistake,  such 
officers  are  ordered  to  make  prompt  restitution. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjiitanl  and  Insjyector-GcneraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  l  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No  ■'■i4.  J  RiCHMOxi),  August  1,  186'2. 

I.  .The  following  orders  are  publiwhed  for  the  information  and  observ- 
ance of  all  concerned: 

II.. Whereas  by  a  General  Order,  dated  the  22d  July,  1862,  issued 
by  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the  United  States,  under  the  order  of  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  the  military  commanders  of  that  gov- 
ernment within  the  States  of  Virginia,  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  Florida, 
Alabama,  Mississippi,  Louisiana,  Texas,  and  Arkansas,  arc  directed  to 


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seize  and  uae  any  property,  real  or  personal,  belonging  to  the  inhabi- 
tants of  this  Confederacy,  which  may  be  necessary  or  convenient  for 
tHeir  several  commands,  and  no  provision  is  made  for  any  compensa- 
tion to  the  owners  of  private  property  thns  seized  and  appropriated  by 
the  militarj'  commanders  of  the  enemy  : 

III.  .And  whereas  by  General  Order,  No.  11,  issued  on  the  23d  .July, 
18(52,  by  Mnjor-Ueneral  Pope,  commanding  the  forces  of  the  enemy  in 
Northern  Virginia,  it  is  ordered  that  all  "commanders  of  army  corps, 
divisions,  brigades,  and  detached  commands,  will  proceed  immediately 
to  arrest  all  disloyal  male  citizens  within  their  lines  or  within  their 
reach,  in  rear  of  their  respective  commands.  Such  as  are  willing  to 
take  the  oath  of  allogiance  to  the  United  States,  and  will  furnish  sufH- 
cient  security  for  its  observance,  shall  be  permitted  to  remain  at  their 
homes,  and  pursue  in  good  faith  their  accustomed  avocations.  Those 
who  refuse,  shall  be  conducted  south,  beyond  the  extreme  pickets  of 
this  army,  and  be  notified  that  if  found  again  anywhere  within  our 
lines,  or  at  any  point  in  rear,  they  will  be  considered  spies,  and  subject- 
ed to  the  extreme  rigor  of  military  law.  If  anj'  person  having  taken 
the  oath  of  allogiance  as  above  specified,  be  found  to  have  violated  it, 
ho  shall  be  shot,  and  his  property  seized  and  applied  to  the  public  use:" 

IV.. And  whereas  by  an  order  issued  on  the  LSth  July,  1862,  by 
Brigadier-General  A.  Steinwehr,  Major  William  Steadman,  a  cavalry 
otiic'ur  of  his  brigade,  has  been  ordered  to  arrest  five  of  the  most  prom- 
inent citizens  of  Page  county,  Virginia,  to  be  held  as  hostages,  and  to 
suffer  death  in  the  event  of  any  of  the  soldiers  of  said  Steinwehr  being 
shot  by  "bu.sh whackers,"  by  which  term  are  meant  the  citizens  of  this 
Confederacy  who  have  taken  up  arms  to 'defend  their  homes  and  fam- 
ilies : 

v.. And  wluu'cas  it  results  from  the  above  orders  that  some  of  the 
niilitary  authorities  of  the  United  States,  not  content  with  the  unjust 
and  aggressive  warfare  hitherto  waged  with  savage  cruelty  against  an 
unoffending  people,  and  exasperated  bj'  the  failure  of  their  effort  to  sub- 
jugate them,  have  now  determined  to  violate  all  the  rules  and  usages  of 
war,  and  to  convert  the  hostilities  hitherto  waged  against  armed  forces 
into  a  campaign  of  robbery  and  murder  against  unarmed  citizens  and 
]>caceful  tillers  of  the  soil : 

VI.  .And  whereas  this  government,  bound  by  the  highest  obligationa 
of  duty  to  its  citizens,  is  thus  driven  to  the  necessity  of  adopting  such 
just  mcasui-es  of  retribution  and  retaliation  as  shall  sccin  adequate  to 
repress  and  punish  these  barbarities:  and  whereas  the  orders  above 
recited  have  only  been  published  and  made  known  to  this  government 


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since  the  signature  of  a  cartel  for  exchange  of  prisoners  of  war,  which 
cartel,  in  so  far  as  it  provides  for  an  exchange  of  prisoners  hereafter 
captured,  would  never  have  been  signed  or  agreed  to  by  this  govern- 
ment if  the  intention  to  change  the  war  into  a  system  of  indiscriminate 
murder  and  robbery  had  been  made  known  to  it:  and  whereas  a  just 
regard  to  humanity  forbids  that  the  repression  of  crime  which  this 
government  is  thus  compelled  to  enforce  should  be  unnecessarily  ex- 
tended to  retaliation  on  the  enlisted  men  in  the  army  of  the  United 
States  who  may  be  the  unwilling  instruments  of  the  savage  cruelty  of 
their  commanders  so  long  as  thei-e  is  hope  that  the  excesses  of  the 
enemy  may  be  checked  or  prevented  by  retribution  on  the  commis- 
sioned officers  who  have  the  power  to  avoid  guilty  action  by  refusing 
service  under  a  government  which  seeks  their  aid  in  the  perpetration 
of  such  infamous  barbarities : 

VII.  .Therefore,  it  is  ordered  that  Major-General  Pope,  Brigadier- 
General  Steinwohr,  and  all  commissioned  officers  serving  under  their 
respective  commands,  be  and  they  are  hereby  expressly  and  specially 
declared  to  be  not  entitled  to  be  considered  as  soldiers,  and  therefore 
not  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  cartel  for  the  parole  of  future  prisoners 
"of  war.  Ordered,  further,  that  in  the  event  of  the  capture  of  Major- 
General  Pope,  or  Brigadier-General  Steinwehr,  or  of  any  commissioned 
ofBeer  serving  under  them,  the  captive  so  taken  shall  be  held  in  close 
confinement  so  long  as  the  orders  aforesaid  shall  continue  in  force  and 
unrepealed  by  the  competent  military  authorities  of  the  United  States; 
and  that  in  the  event  of  the  murder  of  any  unarmed  citizen  or  inhabi- 
tant of  this  Confederacy  by  virtue  or  under  pretext  of  any  of  the  orders 
herein  before  recited,  whether  with  or  without  trial,  whether  under 
pretence  of  such  citizen  being  a  spy  or  hostage,  or  any  other  pretence, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Commanding  General  of  the  forces  of  this 
Confederacy  to  cause  immediately  to  be  hung,  out  of  the  commissioned 
officers,  prisoners  as  aforesaid,  a  number  equal  to  the  number  of  our 
own  citizens  thus  murdered  by  the  enemy. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  lii-ipeclor-Geticral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  WAR  DEPARTMKNT, 

>■  Adjutant  and  iNSPECTon-OENERAL's  Office, 

No.  55.  J  Richmond,  xl!«(/MS<  2,  18G2. 

Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  42,  current  series,  is  hereby  re- 
voked, and  the  following  is  substituted  in  lieu  thereof: 

Where  martial   law  has   been   proclaimed,  the  civil    tribunals   are 


iVJ 

authorized  to  grant  injunctions,  to  make  onlcrn,  and  tu  take  such  steps 
as  may  be  necessary  to  prevent  irreparable  mischief,  to  secure  the 
possession  of  infants  in  the  persons  entitled  thereto,  to  decide  suits  for 
divorce,  to  make  orders  for  alimony,  and  to  secure  the  personal  safety 
of  the  parties  to  suet  suits,  to  recover  i-ents  and  the  possession  of  real 
estate  and  slaves,  and  to  restore  the  possession  of  property  tortiously 
changed. 

By  order. 

S.  COOrER, 
Adjutiinl  nnd  fnspcctin-Geiientl. 


tiKNKKAL  ORDERS.  )  WAR  ITKI'ARTMKNT, 

V  Adjutant  axu  iNsrECTon-GKNiiRAi.'.s  Office. 

No.  56.  )  Richmond,  .,4  "i7t(.<!/  6,  1862, 

I.  .Military  commanders  have  no  autliority  to  suspend  the  writ  of 
habeas  corpus;  nor  doe.«?  martial  law,  when  declared  by  the  President 
under  the  act  of  Congress,  justify  the  arbitrary  establishment  of  the 
price  of  commodities  in  the  trade  of  the  citizens  of  the  Confederate 
States. 

II.  .Necessity  alone  can  warrant  the  impressment  of  private  prop- 
erty for  public  use :  and  wherever  the  requisite  supplies  can  be 
obtained  by  the  consent  of  the  owners  at  fair  rates,  and  without 
hazardous  delay,  the  military  authorities  will  abst.xin  from  the  harsh 
proceeding  of  impressment. 

III.  .Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No,  38,  current  series,  is  hereby 
revoked;  and  all  discharges  will  hereafter  be  made  under  the  11th 
Article  of  War,  and  General  Order,  No.  26,  current  series. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  [niij>ector-Generul. 


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INSTRUCTIONS  TO  ORDNANCE  OFFICERS  IN 
THE  FIELD. 

[No.  2.] 


Relative  to  Returns  of  Ordnance  Stores. 

I.. Returns  for  orduanee  aud  ordnance  stores  issued  to  troops  will 
be  made  quarterly  ou  the  31  st  March,  30th  June,  30th  September,  and 
3l8t  December,  according  to  Form  I,  "  Ordnance  Regulations,"  as  fol- 
lows : 

II.. For  all  ordnance  stores  —  such  as  arms,  accoutrements,  e(juip- 
raents,  and  ammunition  in  the  hands  of  a  regiment  or  battalion, 
including  the  supplies  carried  in  the  ordnance  wagon  of  the  regiment — 
by  the  colonel  of  the  regiment,  assisted  by  his  ordnance  sergeant. 

III.  .For  all  ordnance  stores — such  as  artillery  harness,  equipments, 
accoutrements,  and  ammunition  in  the  possession  of  field  batteries — by 
the  captains  of  batteries. 

IV.  .For  ordnance  aud  ordnance  stores  at  posts  or  garrisons — by  the 
commanding  officer,  assisted  by  his  ordnance  sergeant. 

v.. For  ordnance  stores  in  the  division  and  army  trains  —  by  the 
division  ordnance  officer  and  by  the  assistant  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance 
of  the  army. 

VI.  .Invoices  to  show  what  has  been  received,  aud  receipts  for  issues 
must  accompany  the  "  Returns,"  and  the  line  of  '  "  Expenditures  " 
must  mention  the  actions  or  practice  causing  the  expenditure ;  and, 
where  ammunition  or  stores  are  lost,  proper  evidence  and  explanation 
must  be  furnished  attached  to  the  return. 

VII.  .In  many  cases  captains  of  infantry  companies  have  given 
receipts  for  their  arms  and  equipments.  In  such  cases  the  colonel  of 
the  regiment  to  which  the  company  belongs  should  give  a  receipt  for 
the  property  in  the  possession  of  the  company  commander  at  the 
organization  of  the  regiment,  making  the  necessary  expenditures  for 


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propertj  lost,  vrvtn  out,  and  expended  ou  the  roginienlnl  rpturu!<. 
Whorc  property  has  been  furnished  bj-  a  state  or  by  the  company 
t.hcniFclvt's,  it  will  be  accounted  for  ou  a  separate  return  by  the  com- 
pany commauder,  a  remark  to  that  effect  being  made  in  the  regimental 
return. 

VITT.  .Wherever  there  are  field  depots,  with  workmen  attached,  the 
u.sunl  monthly  summary  flatement  of  work  done  should  he  transmitted. 
(Sec  Form  21(,  '•  Ordnance  Regulations.") 

J.   tiORGAS,  rolonci. 

Chief  0/  Ordnrtrx-e. 
Avguft  1,  1862.  ^ 


GENKRAI.  OKDUKS.)  WAR  DKPAKTMENT. 

V  AlUUTANT    AND    INSPKCTOR-GESERAL'S   OFFICE. 

No.  57.  )  RiciiMONP.  .4  »</!*.'«  M.  T 862. 

I.. The  tranHpiirtatimi  by  railroad, of  cavalry  and  artillery  horses, 
unless  orders  bo  given  in  each  cii.^ic  permitting  such  transportation,  is 
hereby  prohibited. 

IT. .  Hereafter  all  soldiers  .under  eighteen  and  over  thirty-five  years 
of  age  will  be  discharged  at  the  e.\piration  of  the  term  for  which  they 
have  engaged  to  serve. 

in.. The  words  "cither  directly  or,"  first  line  (if^nernl  Orders,  No. 
50,  will  be  omitted. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

8.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General . 


(3KNERAI,  ORDKRS  1  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

^  Adjutant  and  iNSPEcroRGKNKRAL's  Office, 

No.  58.  \  K1CH.VOND.  August  14.  1862. 

I.  .The  following  rules  in  relation  to  the  examination  of  conscript.s 
are  published  for  the  guidance  of  the  enrolling  and  medical  examining 
officers : 

1.  At  each  camp  of  instruction  and  at  such  military  stations  and 
other  points  as  may  be  designated,  an  experienced  army  .surgeon,  from 
a  diftereut  section  of  the  country,  will  be  detailed  to  examine  con- 
scripts. 


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2.  All  conscripts  capable  of  bearing  arms  will  be  received. 

3.  Conscripts  not  equal  to  all  military  duty  may  be  valuable  in  the 
hospital,  quartermaster's,  or  other  staff  departments;  and  if  so  will  be 
received. 

4.  Blindness,  excessive  deafness,  and  permanent  lameness,  or  great 
deformitjs  are  obvious  reasons  for  exemptions. 

5.  Confirmed  consumption,  large,  incurable  ulcers,  and  chronic  con- 
tagious diseases  of  the  skin,  are  causes  for  exemption. 

6.  Single  reducible  hernia,  the  loss  of  an  eye,  or  of  several  fingers, 
will  not  incapacitate  the  subject  for  the  performance  of  military  duty. 

7.  A  certificate  of  disability  of  a  conscript  given  by  a  private  physi- 
cian will  not  be  considered,  unless  amdavit  is  made  that  the  conscript 
is  confined  to  bed,  or  that  his  health  and  life  would  be  endangered  by 
removal  to  the  place  of  enrolment. 

8.  But  when  a  conscript  is  incapacitated  by  temporary  sickness,  he 
must  present  himself  so  soon  as  recovered  to  the  enrolling  officer,  or  to 
the  nearest  school  for  conscripts. 

9.  No  previous  discharge,  certificate,  or  exemption,  from  any  source, 
will  be  acknowledged,  except  those  granted  to  foreigners  not  domiciled, 
and  to  those  persons  who  have  furnished  substitutes. 

10.  Medical  oflicers  of  the  army  are  not  allowed  to  examine  con- 
scripts and  give  certificates  unless  they  are  regularly  detailed  for  that 
duty. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  I)ispecfo!--GeHeial. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

V  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  .59.  )  Richmond,  August  20,  1862. 

Whereas  information  has  been  received  that  certain  peaceable  citizens 
'  of  the  Confederate  States  have  been  seized  and  put  to  death  by  order  of 
General  Fitch,  commanding  the  army  of  the  United  States,  which  had 
invaded  the  State  of  Arkansas,  upon  the  ground  that  one  of  the  said 
invading  army  had  been  shot  by  some  unknown  person,  who,  whatever 
his  condition,  had  an, unquestionable  right  to  defend  his  home:  And 
whereas  inquiry  has  been  made  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States 
as  to  the  correctness  of  the  said  information,  and  whether  the  action  of 
General  Fitch  has  the  sanction  of  the  said  government ;  to  which  in- 
quiry the  authorities  of  the  United  States  have  refused  to  answer  : 
And  whereas  our  government  is  driven  to  retaliatory  measures  as  the 


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only  racanp  to  protect  the  lives  of  the  peaceable  citizens  of  the  Confed- 
erate States  who  may  fall  into  the  hands  of  General  Fitch,  or  any  per- 
sons acting  under  his  authority: 

It  is  hereby,  ordered  that  general  officers  commanding  troops  of  the 
Confederate  States  shall  forthwith  ascertain  and  report  to  the  President 
whether  such  acts  have  been  committed;  and  upon  being  certified 
thereof,  shall  forthwith  set  apart  by  lot,  from  among  any  prisoners 
taken  from  the  artny  under  the  command  of  General  Fitch,  a  number 
of  ofliccrs  equal  in  number  to  the  persons  who  have  been  put  to  death 
as  aforesaid,  and  place  tticm  in  close  confinement  for  execution  at  such 
time  thereafter  as  may  be  ordered  by  the  President;  and  shall  regard 
the  said  General  Fitch,  if  captured,  not  as  a  prisoner  of  war,  but 
place  him  in  confinement  as  a  felon,  until  the  further  order  of  the 
President. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER,- 
Adjutant  (Hid  TiiKpcctor-General, 


GKNKRAL  ORDERS, )  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

y  Adjutant  and  Inspbctor-General's  Office, 

No.  60.  )  Richmond,  Auffust  21, 1862. 

p.  .Whereas  Major-Gencral  Huntkr.  recently  in  command  of  the 
enemy's  forces  on  tlio  coast  of  South  Carolina,  and  Brigadier-General. 
Phelps,  a  military  commander  of  the  enemy  in  the  State  of  Louisiana, 
have  organized  and  armed  negro  slaves  for  military  service  against 
their  masters,  citizens  of  this  Confederacy:  And  whereas  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  United  States  has  refused  to  answer  an  inquiry  whether 
said  conduct  of  its  officers  mect.s  its  sanction,  and  has  thus  left  to  this 
government  no  other  means  of  repressing  said  crimes  and  outrages 
than  the  adoption  of  such  mea.=urcs  of  retaliation  as  shall  serve  to  pre- 
vent their  repetition  : 

Ordered,  that  Major-Gcueral  Hunter  and  Brigadier-General  Phelps 
be  no  longer  held  and  treated  as  public  enemies  of  the  Confederate 
States,  but  as  outlaws ;  and  that  in  the  event  of  the  capture  of  either 
of  them,  or  that  of  any  other  commissioned  officer  employed  in  drilling, 
organizing,  or  instructing  slaves,  with  a  view  to  their  armed  service  in 
this  war,  ho  shall  not  be  regarded  as  a  prisoner  of  war,  but  held  in 
close  confinement  for  execution  as  a  felon,  at  such  time  and  place  as 
the  President  shall  order. 

By  order. 

S    COOPER, 
Adjutant  cind.  In»pector-Oen«ral. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS.)  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  61.  J  •  Richmond,  August  23,  1862. 

I.. Hereafter  all  orders  from  this  office  published  in  the  Richmond 
Enquirer  will  be  considered  by  the  army  as  official. 

Il.iln  connection  with  paragraph  IV  of  General  Orders,  No.  32, 
from  this  office,  ambulances  and  wagons  for  the  transportation  of  regi- 
mental hospital  supplies  are  reserved  for  the  special  use  of  the  hospital 
department.  While  the  ambulances,  wagons,  teams,  drivers,  etc.,  will 
be  borne  on  the  returns  of  the  quartermasters,  they  will  be  under  the 
exclusive  control  of  the  medical  officers,  and  will  not  be  interfered  with 
by  any  officer,  except  in  permanent  encampments,  when  by  direction  of 
the  General  commanding,  the  wagons  may,  if  necessary,  be  temporarily 
used  for  local  purposes. 

III.  .Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  53,  current  series,  is  so 
modified  as  X,^  read  as  follows : 

All  seizures  and  impressments  of  any  description  of  property  what- 
ever, belonging  to  the  states  of  the  Confederacy,  are  hereby  prohibited, 
and  officers  of  the  Confederate  States  army  are  enjoined  to  abstain 
carefully  from  such  seizures  and  impressments;  and  in  case  they  are 
made  by  mistake,  such  officers  are  ordered  to  make  prompt  restitution. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjittiint  and  Innpector-Gencral . 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  62.  j  Richmond,  J  ?/^«s<  26,  1862. 

I.  .Major-General  Hugkr,  having  been  appointed  Inspector  of  Ord- 
nance and  Artillery  for  the  C.  S.  army,  is  authorized  to  inspect  and 
examine  into  all  the  establishments  of  the  Ordnance  department,  and 
the  works  of  all  contractors  for  this  department,  including  all  founderies, 
and  mines  of  iron,  load,  copper,  and  nitre  working  under  permanent 
contract,  and  the  condition  and  armament  of  all  forts  and  batteries, 
and  to  give  such  orders  and  instructions  as  will  tend  to  increase  their 
efficiency.  All  commanding  officers,  and  others  in  charge  of  such 
works,  are  required  to  give  him  all  facilities  and  assistance  in  their 
powej  in  the  perfortaance  of  his  duties.  Such  orders  and  instructions 
as  he  may  consider  necessary,  and  bb  do  not  conflict  with  the  orders  of 


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this  department,  will  be  considered  the  orders  of  the  War  department, 
and  will  be  transmitted,  at  once,  through  the  office  of  the  Chief  of 
Ordnance.  Reports  of  inspections  will  be  remitted  to  the  War  depart- 
ment through  the  same  channels.  The  rules  and  mode  of  inspection 
will  be,  in  other  respects,  in  conforraitj'  with  section  II  of  the  Regula- 
tions of  the  Ordnance  department,  approved  February  1,  1862.  All 
officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  are  required  to  furnish 
transportation  to  'himself  and  his  aids  and  assistants  on  his  order. 
Where  there  are  no  lines  of  transportation,  he  will  procure  it,  and  keep 
an  accounj.  of  the  actual  expenses  ;  which  account  will  be  paid  by  the 
Quartcrm.astcr's  department,  on  his  certificate  and  order. 

II.. It  is  hereby  announced  that  no  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United 
States,  and  no  parole  by  a  person  not  in  military  service,  pledgin"  him- 
self not  to  bear  arms  against  the  United  States,  will  bo  regarded  as  an 
exemption  from  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States ;  but 
persons  liable  to  conscription  taking  such  oath  or  giving  such  parole 
will  bc-cnrolled  for  service.  If  captured  by  the  enemy,  they  will  be 
demanded,  and  paroled  as  prisoners  of  war. 

B}'  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
ArfJKlrnif  and  Iiupeclot -General. 


GENERAL  OKDERS.I  Awutant  and  Inspkctor-Oeneral's  Ofkick, 

^'O'  63.  j  lliCHMOND,  September  4,  1862. 

All  general  staff  officers  who  hold  appointments  as  such  in  the  Con- 
federate States  army,  and  who  have  received,  or  may  hereafter  receive 
appointments  of  higher  grade  in  the  line  of  the  Provisional  army  of 
the  Confederate  States,  will  immediately  signify  to  this  office  their 
preference  for  one  or  other  of  these  appointments,  as  both  can  not  be 
held  by  the  same  officer. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS."!  Atjdtasi  and  Inbpecior-Gekeral's  Office, 

No.  64.  )  Richmond,  September  8,  1862. 

1.  .rouacripts-  in  the  employment  of  the  government  who  leave  their 
employment   without    authority  will    be  arreattd  ae  deserters   on  th* 


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order  of  the  oflBcer  under  whom  they  arc  employed.  Conscripts  work- 
ing for  contractors  will,  under  like  circumstauces,  be  arrested  as  desert- 
ers by  the  enrolling  oHicer  of  the  district  on  complaint  and  proof  by 
the  contractor. 

II.. The  reception  of  substitutes  under  eighteen  years  of  age  is 
hereby  prohibited.  The  reception  of  substitutes  into  partisan  corps  is 
prohibited,  as  is  also  the  reception  of  substitutes  into  any  company  not 
fully  organized  andre'ceived  by  the  department.  A  substitute  becoming 
liable  to  conscription  renders  his  principal  also  liable,  unless  exempt  on 
other  grounds. 

III.  .Commissaries  of  subsistence  in  the  field  and  at  depots  will 
transfer  all  the  hides  of  slaughtered  beeves  to  officers  of  the  Quarter- 
master's department,  who  will  receive  them,  and  preserve  the  same  to 
be  tanned. 

IV.  .Commanders  of  army  corps,  regiments,  and  battalions  will  make 
to  this  oflBce  monthly  returns  of  their  respective  commands,  on  the 
forms  furnished,  and  according  to  the  directions  expressed  on  them. 
OfBcers  in  charge  of  camps  of  instruction  will  make  to  this  office,  on 
the  10th,  20th,  and  30th  of  each  month,  returns  of  the  state  of  the 
recruiting  service,  showing  the  number  of  conscripts  enrolled  in  camp 
.at  the  date  of  last  report,  the  number  enrolled  and  accepted  during  the 
period  for  which  report  is  made,  the  number  sent  forward  to  regiments, 
and  the  total  remaining  in  camp.  t 

v..  Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  62,  current  series,  is  amended 
so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

It  is  hereby  announced  that  no  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United 
States,  and  no  parole  by  a  person  not  in  military  service,  pledging  him- 
self not  to  bear  arms  against  the  United  States,  will  be  regarded  as  an 
exemption  from  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States  j  but 
persons  liable  to  conscription,  taking  such  oath  or  giving  such  parole, 
will  be  enrolled  for  service.  If  captured  by  the  .enemy,  they  will  be 
demanded  as  prisoners  of  war. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- Geiie7-aL 


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GENERAL  ORDERS.  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  Go.  )  Richmond,  September  9.  1862. 

I-  .Each  cadet  in  the  Confederate  States  service  will  forthwith  report 
to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  Richmond,  Virginia,  the  state 
in  which  he  was  born,  the  county  and  state  whence  appointed,  and 
whether  the  appointment  was  "at  iSrgc"  or  from  a  "Congressional 
district;"  his  age  at  the  date  of  his  appointment  in  the  Confederate 
service,  and  whether  he  was  appointed  to  West  Point,  together  with 
the  date  of  such  appointment,  and  the  date  of  his  leaving. 

II.  .Promotions  of  company  officers,  as  such,  in  the  Provisional 
army,  take  place  in  the  respective  companies  in  which  the  officers  are 
serving,  and  not  through  the  line  of  the  regiment  or  battalion;  that  is, 
on  the  vacancy  of  the  captain  the  first  lieuten.ant  of  the  company  will 
succeed,  and  the  second  lieutenant  of  the  same  company  will  be  enti- 
tled to  succeed  to  the  vacancy  created  by  the  promotion  of  the  first 
lieutenant. 

III.  .Paroled  or  exchanged  prisoners,  sick  or  wounded,  in  hospitals, 
who  have  not  been  furnished  with  descriptive  lists,  will  be  mustered 
for  p.aj'mcnt  upon  the  hospital  rolls  by  surgeons  in  charge,  upon  their 
affidavit  that  they  h.ave  not  received  pay  for  the  period  for  which  they 
claim  it  to  be  due,  and  are  not  indebted  to  the  Confederate  government 
beyond  the  amount  which  may  be  stated. 

rV.  .All  officers  of  the  Subsistence  department  will  return  to  the  com- 
missary from  whom  they  draw  subsistence  all  barrels  and  sacks.  If 
they  fail  to  return  them  they  will  be  chargcd.75  cents  for  each  barrel, 
and  $1  25  for  each  sack. 

v.. The  medical  officers  detailed  by  virtue  of  paragraph  I,  General 
Orders,  No.  58,  current  scries,  to  examine  conscripts  at  camps  of  iu- 
struction  will  forward  every  week,  through  the  commanding  officers,  to 
the  Adjutant  and  lu-^pector-iieneral,  Richmond,  the  names  in  full  of 
the  conscripts  received  who  are  not  equal  to  all  military  duty,  but  may 
be  valuable  in  the  hospital,  quartermaster's,  or  other  staff  department, 
in  order  that  they  may  bo  detailed  for  those  branches  of  the  service. 
The  previous  occupation  of  the  conscript  will  bo  reported,  with  a  rec- 
ommendation for  any  special  duty  for  which  he  may  apiftar  suited. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailjiilitnt  and  Insjiector-Gcncrah 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  66.  j  Richmond,  Se.ptember  12,  1862. 

I.  .Agreeably  to  Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  56,  current  series, 
declaring  that  "  military  commanders  hav&  no  authority  to  suspend 
the  writ  of  habeas  corpus,"  all  proclamations  of  martial  law  by  general 
officers,  and  others  assuming  a  power  vested  only  in  the  President,  are 
hereby  annulled. 

II.  .Conscripts  employed  at  the  government  workshops  of  the  Ord- 
nance department  will  not  be  interfered  with  by  enrolling  or  other 
officers.  All  proceedings  in  reference  to  them  will  be  made  through  the 
commanding  officer  of  the  ordnance  establishments. 

III.. All  conscripts,  or  detailed  or  hired  workmen,  engaged  in  such 
establishments  will  be  provided  with  passes,  signed  by  the  officer  im- 
mediately in  charge,  and  countersigned  by  Colonel*  J.  Gougas,  Chief 
of  Ordnance. 

IV.. The  Superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau,  or  such 
officers  as  he  may  designate,  are  authorized  and  required  to  impress  for 
the  government  any  mineral  mines  or  nitre  caves,  or  deposits  required 
for  the  wants  of  the  service,  in  all  cases  where  such  mines,  caves,  or 
deposits  are  suffered  to  remain  unworked,  or  which  may  be  imperfectly 
worked  by  the  owner  or  lessor.  Compensation  for  ore,  earth,  buildings, 
timber,  and  all  materials  necessary  for  such  work,  thus  taken  and  used, 
may  be  settled  by  private  agreement,  or  by  arbitration,  under  the  di- 
rection of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau. 

v.. Enrolling  and  recruiting  officers  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties 
under  the  Conscript  or  other  acts,  are  enjoined  not  to  remove  or  inter- 
fere with  workmen  or  employees  at  the  nitre,  lead,  or  copper  works,  or 
mines  worked  by  government  officers,  or  by  contractors  for  the  Ord- 
nance department,  without  first  apprising  and  obtaining  the  consent  of 
the  superintendent  or  officer  in  charge,  who  will  be  held  strictly  respon- 
sible for  any  abuse  or  evasion  of  the  law. 

VI.  .Through  an  error  in  the  printed  text  of  the  "Army  Regulations" 
of  the  Confederate  States,  quartermasters  have  allowed  to  servants 
issues  of  fuel,  and  straw,  etc.  All  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  de- 
partment will  hereafter  take  notice  that  such  allowances  are  illegal, 
and  will  not  be  admitted  in  accounts  passing  through  the  Quartermas- 
ter-General's office. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
AilJHtniit  find  Iiispector-h'eneya/. 


7*J 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "|  Adjutant  and  Iwspector-General's  Office, 

No.  67.  j  Richmond,  September  13,  1882. 

I.. Different  constructions  having  been  placed  on  paragraph  III, 
General  Orders,  No.  65,  current  series,  it  is  hereby  declared  that  it  only 
applies  to  paroled  or  exchanged  prisoners  who  are  sick  and  wounded 
in  hospitals,  and  who  have  not  been  furnished  with  descriptive  lists. 

II.. The  .Surgeon-General,  the  Quartermaster-General,  the  Commis- 
sary-General, and  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  will  cause  an  immediate  and 
thorough  inspection  to  be  made  in  all  the  branches  of  their  several  de- 
partments, and  will  report  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  the 
number  of  able-bodied  men  of  conscript  ago  now  in  department  employ 
whose  places  can  be  filled  by  conscripts'accepted  for  such  duty  under 
the  requirements  of  paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  58,  current 
series. 

III.  .Surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals,  assistant  quartermasters,  as- 
sistant commissaries,  and  ordnance  olficers  having  in  their  employ 
able-bodied  men  of  conscript  age  whose  places  can  be  filled  by  con- 
scripts enrolled  under  paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  58,  current 
series,  will  report  the  facts  to  the  nearest  enrolling  officer,  who  will 
cause  an  exchange  to  be  made,  and  will  order  the  soldiers  thus  relieved 
from  department  employ  to  duty  with  their  commands. 

IV.. Hereafter  no  new  details  which  will  separate  able-bodied  men 
from  their  regiments  wilt  be  made  for  duty  in  the  hospital,  quarter- 
master, commissary,  or  ordnance  departments. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-G eneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. )  Adjutant  A^^)  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  08.  )  Richmond,  September  17,  1862. 

I.. A  board  of  officers  will  convene  in  this  city  to  examine  appli- 
cants for  appointments  as  artillery  officers  for  ordnance  duty. 

The  board  will  consist  of: 

Colonel  T.  S.  Ehett,  Provisional  artillery,  on  ordnance  duty. 

Major  S.  Stanshuri/,  «  .< 

Captain  Benjnniin  Sloan. 

Superintendent  1^.  Lcroy  Brown. 

Captain  S'lo'in  will  record  the  proceedings  of  the  board. 


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The  senior  oflBcer  present  will  act  as  president,  and  will  cause  due 
notice  to  be  given  of  the  days  and  place  of  meeting  of  the  board, 
which  will  sit  from  time  to  time  as  candidates  may  apply  for  examina- 
tion. 

The  requisites  to  pass  the  examination  will  be : 

1st.  An  ordinary  English  education. 

2d.  A  knowledge  of  arithmetic,  including  the  use  of  fractions. 

3d.  A  knowledge  of  the  Field  Manual  prepared  under  the  direction 
of  the  Ordnance  bureau. 

4th.  The  board  will  also  examine  the  credentials  of  the  applicants, 
and  take  into  consideration  prior  services  tending  to  qualify  them  as 
artillery  oflBcers. 

5th.  The  board  must  satisfy  themselves  of  the  moral  character  of 
the  candidates,  and  especially  of  their  habitual  sobriety;  and  they  will 
pass  no  one  physically  unfit  for  the  duties  of  an  ordnance  ofBcer  in 
the  field. 

After  such  examination  as  the  board  thinks  necessary,  the  candi- 
dates will  be  arranged  according  to  a  roll  of  merit,  based  upon  exam- 
ination and  testimonials,  recommending  them  to  such  grade  as  they 
deem  them  qualified  for,  not  above  the  grade  of  captain  ;  the  promotion 
to  higher  grade  beinf  dependent  on  vacancies  in  the  field,  or  at 
arsenals. 

II.  .Paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  65,  current  series,  modified 
by  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67,  is  extended  to  embrace  all 
soldiers  sick  in  hospitals  or  on  furlough. 

* 
III.. All   enrolling   officers   are   hereby   expressly   prohibited   fi-om 
enrolling  as  conscripts   foreigners   not  domiciled  in   the  Confederate 
States.     By  domicil  is  meant  permanent  residence. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inajpectov- General. 


NERAL  ORDEKS."!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gen£Eal-s  Office, 

No.  60.  )  Richmond,  September  19,  1862. 

I.. The  adjutants  of  the  regiments  throughout  the  army  will  inquire 
into  and  report  all  eases  of  slaves  serving  with  their  respective  regi- 
ments without  written  authority  from  their  masters.  The  names  of 
such  slaves  and  their  masters  will  lie  forwarded  to  the  oflBce  of  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  to  be  published  in  the  newspapers. 


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II.. The  prohibition  of  the  cxi)ortation  from  Virginia,  of  wheat, 
flour,  bacon,  and  corn  docs  not  extend  to  seed  wheat.  Therefore,  in 
all  cases  where  the  Commanding  General  of  the  department  through 
which  it  is  desired  to  export  wheat  shall  be  satisfic<l  that  it  is  intended 
for  seed  and  not  for  consumption,  he  shall  permit  it  to  pass. 

III.  .Hereafter  the  command  of  Major-General  G.  W.  Smith  will 
embrace  that  part  of  the  country  lying  south  of  the  line  of  operations 
under  General  R.  E.  Lee,  including  the  Department  of  North  Carolina. 
All  commanders  within  these  geographical  limits  will  report  to  and 
receive  their  orders  from  Major-General  Smith. 

IV.  .Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  41,  current  series,  is  hereby 
revoked. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

"  Adjutaitt  and  Iiispcctor-CiciieriiL 


MESSAGE  OF  TJIE  PRESIDP]:NT. 

*  Confederate  State.s  op  America, 

Executive  Office, 
RiCHMONn,  October  2,  1862. 
To  the  Senate  and  House  of  Reprenentativcs : 

I  herewith  transmit  for  your  information  a  communication  from  the 
Secretary  of  War,  submitting  "The  report  of  the  Adjutant-General 
of  the  proccejings  of  courts  martial  in  cases  of  drunkenness." 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


.   LETTER  FROM  THE  SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 

Confedeiiate  States  op  America, 
War  department, 
Richmond,  October  2,  18r.2. 
Hta  Excellency  the  President  : 

Sir — I  have  the  honor  to  submit,  for  transmission  to  Congress,  the 
report  of  the  Adjutant-General  of  the  proceedings  of  courts  martial 
in  cases  of  drunkenness. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

GEO.  W.  RANDOLPH, 

Secretary  of  \V<ir. 


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PROCEEDINaS  OF  COURTS  MARTIAL  IN  CASES  OF  DRUNK- 

AND  INSPECTOBr-GENERAL 


Name  and  Ra\k  of 
Accused. 


Date  of  Order  Con- 
vening Court. 


Where  Held. 


E.  N.  Fuljer,  2d  Lieut.  1st 
Infantry.  C.  S.  P.  A 

C.  E.  Kauapaux,  Company 
I).  Palmetto  batt'n,  Liglit 
Artillery 


J.  S.  Worforil,  Capt.  Com- 
pany D.  Wither's  regi- 
ment Light  Artillery 


T.  H.  W.  Upshur.  Assistant 
Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S 

W.  L.  Wall,  Lieut.  Co.  C, 
Col.  J.  Brown's  regiment. 


*Reuben  Brown,  Co.  G,  Col. 
Jack  Brown's  regiment... 


A.  S.  llaynes,  Capt. 
N.  C.  volunteers 


11th 


T.  0.  Jones,  Lieut.  40th  reg- 
iment N.  C.  volunteers.... 

J.  D.  Wright,  Lieut.  Co.  B, 
Speight's  regiment,  Tex. 
volunteers 


Head-quarters,  Department  ] 

S.  C.  and  Ga.,  Charleston, 

M.ay  13.  1862 Adams  Run 

Head-quarters,  Dep'artment  i 

S.  C.  and  Ga.,  Charleston, ' 

May  26,  1862 iHdqs. White's  Bat. 


Vicksburg,  Miss. 


Vicksburg,    Miss,    June   9, 

1862 

Head-quarters.  Department 

Northern    Va.,  July    16,! Camp  of  Maj. -General 

1862 [     Longstreet 

Head-quarters,  Department  [ 

S.  C.  &  Ga.,  July  25,  1862.  i  Macon,  Qa 


Head-quarters,  Department 
S.  C.  &  Ga.,  July  25,  1862. 


Head-quarters,  Department 
N.  C,  Petersburg,  July 
18,1862 


Head-quarters.  Dep't  N.  C, 
Petersburg,  July  18, 1862. 


Head-quarters.  Tyler.Texas, 
August  7.  1862 Tyler,  Texas. 


Wilmington,  N.  C. 


Wilmington,  N.  C... 


John  Diiuovant,  Col.  let  S.  I  Head-quarters.  S.  C.  &  Qa., 
C.  regiment Charleston,  Aug,  18, 1862. 


[Duplicate.] 

ADJUtANT  AND  INSPECTOR-GeNERAL's  OFFICE, 

Richmond,  fkptember  30,  1862. 


COURTS  OF 


Adams'  Run,  S.  C  . 


8:i 


ENNESS    ON    FILE    IN    THE    OFFICE    OF    THE    ADJUTANT 
SINCE  APRIL  21sT,  1862. 


Charge. 

Findings. 

Sentence. 

1 

i 

iJrunkcnncss  on  iliity 

Cashiered. 

Honorably  acquitted 

To-be  publicly  repriman- 
ded in  orders,  and  sus- 
pendeil  from  rank  for 
one  month. 

Acquitted. 

Honor.^bly  acquitted. 

Dismissed  from  the  ser- 
vice of  the  C.  S.  A. 

Dismissed  from  the  ser- 
vice of  the  C.  S.  A. 

Of  l8t,2d.  4th,  5th,  6th  spe- 
cifications, not  guilty; 
on  3d  specification,  had 
been  drinking,  and  ca- 
pacities may  liave  been 
Bomewhat  impaired. but 
not  so  much  that  the  3d 
Bpecifieation  or  cli.irge 
Bliould  be  further  con- 
sidered. 

1 

a 

S 

■o 
a 

=  s 

5  = 
*  5 

is 

Is 

Viblation  of  83d   Article 
of  War.    SpecilicBtion : 
Abusive  language  while 
under  influence  of   li- 

Violation  of  8.'5d  Article 
of  War.      Speiirtoafion 
Ist:  In  the  habit  of  gut- 
ting drunk.    Specifica- 
tions 2d  and  3d  do  not 
refer  to  drunkenness. 

Prejudicial  to  good  order 
and  military  discipline. 

Conduct  unbecoming  an 
ofiRcer  and  a  gentleman. 

1st.   Violation  of  45th  Ar- 
ticle of  War.    2d.  Con- 
duct    unbecoming    an 
officer  and  a  gentleman. 
3d.  Violation  of  "th.and 
4  of  the  8th  Article  of 
War 

Of  the  charge  and  speci- 
fication '2d.  guilty ;    of 
specifications    1st    and 
3d,  not  guilty. 

Of  cliarge  and  specific^a- 

5  f; 

S  S. 

Ouilty  of  the  charge  and 

3 
a 

o 
H 

INQUIRY. 

Drunkenness  on  duty 


Note. — Of  specification  1st,  guilty,  with  the  same  change 
in  the  language  of  tlie  specificaticm.  Of  specification 
2d.  guilty,  with  the  same  change  in  the  language  of 
the  specification.  Of  specification  3d,  guilty,  with 
the  same  change  in  the  language  of  the  specification. 
Of  tlie  charge,  guilty.  For  these  alterations,  see  pro- 
ceeding.". 


Respectfully  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPKR,  Adjiila?it  and  Inspector-Oenenil. 


84 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  70.  j  Uicayio^T),  September  23, 18G2. 

I.  .Non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  receiving  an  honorable 
discharge  shall  be  entitled  to  transportation  home  on  the  certificate  of 
the  commandant  of  their  company;  or,  in  case  they  can  not  communi- 
cate with  him,  on  their  own  affidavits  that  they  went  from  their  homes 
to  the  place  of  enlistment  for  the  purpose  of  enlistment. 

II.  .Applications  for  leaves  of  absence,  furloughs,  discharges,  and 
transfers,  from  persons  in  and  about  Richmond,  who,  from  sickness  or 
other  cause,  can  not  communicate  with  their  immediate  commanding 
officers,  will  be  made  to  Major-General  G.  W.  Smith,  and  will  not  be 
considered  by  the  department,  except  on  an  appeal  from  his  decision. 
He  will  prescribe  the  mode  of  examination  in  cases  of  alleged  physical 
disability,  and  will  submit  to  the  department  applications  for  transfers 
to  and  from  troops  not  under  his  command. 

III.  .Commanding  officers  are  directed,  and  will  be  required  to 
examine  promptly  the  returns  of  their  commissaries,  whether  the  issues 
were  made  by  direction  of  their  predecessors  in  command,  or  under 
their  own  direction. 

IV.  .Applicants  for  the  rank  of  captain  of  artillery  in  the  Ordnance 
department,  in  addition  to  the  subjects  mentioned  in  paragraph  I, 
General  Orders,  No.  68,  current  series,  will  ho  examined  upon  the  ele- 
ments of  algebra,  plane  trigonometry,  mechanics,  and  chemistry,  as 
applicable  to  projectiles  and  ordnance. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspeitor-G enerul. 


RAL  ORDERS,  j 
No.  71.  I 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office. 

Richmond,  Seplemher  2G,  1802. 


I.. All  persons  who  have  made  application  for  appointments  in  the 
ordnance  corps  since  the  meeting  of  the  present  Congress  will  present 
themselves  for  examination  by  the  board  of  officers  convened  by 
General  Order,  No.  68,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  as 
soon  as  practicable. 


85 

II.  .Adjourned  meetings  of  the  board  will  hereafter  be  held  conven- 
ient to  the  head-quarters  of  the  armies  in  the  field,  fur  the  examination 
of  officers  who  are  acting  but  have  not  been  commissioned. 

III.. Those  who  pass  the  examination  at  the  present  session  of  the 
board  will  be  arranged  for  appointment  as  captains,  first,  and  second 
licuteiyints  according  to  merit,  and  the  appointments  will  be  made  from 
the  head  of  the  list. 

IV.. All  officers  on  dutj'  in  the  ordnance  corps  will  hereafter  be 
cxam-incd  before  promotion. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-Genci'dl. 


GENERAL  ORDEKS."|  Ahjutaxt  and  iNSPECTORtJE.vKnAL's  Office, 

No.  72.  J  IllcHMOXD,  S(}>lcml)cr  29,  1862. 

I.. The  President  having  approved  an  act  of  Congress  requiring  the 
Secretary  of  War  "to  transfer  any  private  or  non-commissioned  officer 
who  may  be  in  a  regiment  from  a  state  of  this  Confederacy  other  than 
his  own,  to  a  regiment  from  his  own  state,  whenever  such  private  or 
non-commissioned  officer  may  apply  for  such  transfer,  and  whenever 
such  transfer  can  be  made  without  injury  to  the  public  service,  and  that 
the  Secretary  of  War  shall  make. regulations  to  facilitate  such  transfer, 
provided  that  this  act  shall  not  apply  to  any  person  who  has  enlisted  as 
a  substitute"  —  it  is  ordered  that  all  such  applications  for  transfers  as 
are  contemplated  by  the  foregoing  act  shall  be  addressed  lo  the  General 
commanding  the  army  in  which  the  applicant  is  serving,  and  shall  be 
granted  by  him,  without  reference  to  the  War  department,  whether  the 
transfer  is  within  his  own  military  department  or  not,  provided  the 
written  consent  of  the  commandant  of  the  company  to  which  the  trans- 
fer is  sought  to  be  made  shall  first  be  given,  and  the  transfer  can  be 
made  without  injury  to  the  public  service.  In  all  eases  in  which  the 
Commanding  General  shall  think  proper  to  refuse  such  application,  he 
shall  endorse  the  reasons  for  such  refusal,  and  forward  the  application 
to  the  department. 

II.  .Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  31,  current  scries  ;  paragraph 
IX,  General  Orders,  No.  38,  current  series  ;  and  clause  3,  paragraph  I, 
Genor.'il  Orders,  No.  .'iS,' current  serie.--,  are  hereby  revoked. 


86 

III.  .The  ration  issued  to  hospitals  will  not  hereafter  be  subject  to 
the  reduction  authorized  April  28,  1862,  but  will  remain  as  prescribed 
by  paragraph  1107,  General  Regulation?. 

IV.. For  the  prompt  relief  of  the  sick  and  wounded  of  posts  and 
general  hospitals,  not  including  those  in  the  City  of  Richmond,  it  is 
ordered  : 

1.  That  the  commandant  of  the  post  shall  cause  to  be  established  a 
board,  to  consist  of  two  or  more  medical  officers  at  each  post  or  general 
hospital,  for  the  examination  of  all  soldiers  who  may  be  considered  fit 
subjects  for  furlough  or  discharge. 

2.  That  iu  the  absence  of  any  regularly  appointed  officer  the  senior 
surgeon  of  the  post  or  general  hospital  will  act  as  commandant  of  the 
post. 

3.  That  a  certificate  of  disability,  with  a  recommendation  for  furlough, 
signed  in  due  form  by  the  examining  board,  and  approved  by  the  .^^en- 
ior  surgeon  of  the  post,  shall  entitle  the  soldier  to  a  furlough,  to  be 
granted  by  the  commandant  of  the  post. 

4.  That  a  certificate  of  disability,  with  a  recommendation  for  dis- 
charge, signed  in  due  form  by  the  examining  board,  and  approved  by 
the  senior  surgeon  of  the  post,  shall,  if  the  soldier  is  declared  to  bo 
unfit  for  service  in  the  field,  or  in  any  department  of  the  government, 
entitle  him  to  his  discharge,  which  will  be  signed  by  the  commandant 
of  the  post;  and  in  all  cases  where  the  descriptive  list  and  final  papers 
cannot  be  obtained,  the  patient  will  be  mustered  for  payment  upon 
hospital  rolls,  by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  or  his  affidavit  that  he  has  not 
received  pay  for  the  period  for  which  he  claims  it  to  be  due,  and  that 
he  is  not  indebted  to  the  Confederate  States  government  beyond  the 
amount  stated  by  him. 

v.. In  all  cases  of  application  lor  furlough  or  discharge  under  the 
foregoing  paragraph  the  applicant  will  be  required  to  explain  satisfac- 
torily his  absence  from  the  regiment,  battalion,  or  squadron  to  which 
he  belongs. 

VI.. Due  notice  of  all  furloughs  and  discharges  granted  under  this 
order  will  be  forwarded  through  department  commanders  to  the  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector-General. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
A'ljulanl  and  Iitapcctor-Oenerul. 


{S7 


OKN'EKAL  OltDKI'.S.  )  Ai>.?itant  anp  Inspector-Gknkrai.'s  Offkk, 

No.  73.  j  Richmond,  Octohtr  1.  1862. 

I.. The  State  of  Missisaippi,  and  that  part  of  Louis-iiina  cast  of  the 
Mis.si8sippi  river,  are  constituted  a  separate  military  department,  the 
command  of  which  is  assigned  to  Major-General  .John  C.  Prmbkutox. 

II.  .Generals  comm.Tnding  will  authorize  their  medical  purveyors  to 
impress  all  medical  supplies  held  by  speculators,  paying  them  the  cost 
price  for  the  articles.  The  Generals  will  give  the  purveyors  the  neces- 
sary aid  to  carry  this  order  into  cfTcct. 

^  By  order. 

s.  coorEii, 

Adjutant  and  Iiispectur-GcticyaL 


GENERAL  ORDER!',")  Ai'Jutani  ani>  Inspp.ctor-Gkneral's  Office, 

No.  "4.  j  Richmond.  October  2, 1862. 

l.-The  execution  of  the  act  approved  April  16th,  1862,  commonly 
called  the  Conscription  act,  and  of  all  the  amendments  thereto,  is  sus- 
pended, by  direction  of  the  President,  in  the  States  of  Kentucky  and 
Missouri.  Troops  from  those  states  will,  until  further  orders,  be  re- 
ceived into  the  Confederate  service  under  the  acts  passed  by  the  Con- 
federate Congress  prior  to  the  passage  of  the  act  above  referred  to,  the 
execution  of  which  is  hereby  suspended. 

II.  .The  attention  of  otiicers  and  all  others  concerned  is  called  to  the 
fact  that  General  Orders.  No.  72,  published  incorrectly  in  the  Richmond 
Enquirer  of  September  30th,  and  the  Richmond  Whiff  of  October  1st 
and  2d,  was  published  oorrectly  on  the  Lst  instant  and  thereafter  in  the 
Enquirer,  and  on  the  .3d  instant  and  thereafter  in  the  W/iir/. 

III.. All  furloughed,  sick,  and  wounded  soldiers  will  have  transpor- 
tation furnished  them  to  their  homes  and  back,  where  their  furloughs 
are  of  sufficient  length  to  warrant  it. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPE-R, 
Ad)ul<iut  and  Imptrtor-Gfucral . 


88 


GENERAL  ORDEBS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspectoe-General's  Office, 

No.  75.  j  Richmond,  October  13,  1862. 

I.. The  following  notice  of  the  o  dicers  and  men  who  have  been  duly 
exchanged  as  prisoners  of  war  is  published  for  the  information  of  all 
concerned : 

Richmond,  September  22, 1862. 
1st.  All  officers  aiid  men  who  have  been  delivered  at  Aikin's  landing,  Virginia, 
lip  to  this  date. 

2d.  All  officers  who  have  been  delivered  at  Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  up  to  this 
date. 

3d.  Ten  thousand  thrice  Jmndred  and  sixty-eight  men  of  the  first  deliveries  at 
Vicksburg,  Mississippi.  * 

(Signed)  ROBERT  OULD, 

Agent  for  Exchange. 

II.  .All  officers  and  men  who  have  been  duly  exchanged  as  prisoners 
of  war  will,  without  delay,  join  their  respective  regiments  and  corps. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjtuant  and  Inspector-Geneeal's  Office, 

No.  76.  j  Richmond,  October  17, 1862. 

Major  A.  H.  Cole,  quartermaster,  is  announced  as  Inspector-Gen- 
eral of  Field  Transportation  for  the  Confederate  States  army,  head- 
quarters Richmond,  Virginia. 

AH  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will  report  to  him, 
without  further  orders,  the  number  of  wagons,  horses,  mules,  sets  of 
harness,  and  their  condition. 

The  chief  quart ermanters  of  the  armies  in  the  field  will  see  that  this 
order  is  observed  by  all  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department 
within  the  limits  of  their  respective  commands. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Insjiector-Genercd. 


CIRCULAR. 


Quartbrmasttk-Geseeal's  Omcs, 

RlcnMO>n),  February  19,  1862. 

Tho  attention  of  officcr.-i  and  others  is  called  to  paragraph  9  of  the 
Kepiilation.'!  f.)i-  tlio  Pay  deparlment,  which,  as  amended,  is  as  follows: 

9.  OfticprH  are  piititlcd  to  pay  from  the  dato  of  the  acceptance  of  their  appoint- 
incuts.  an<l  fiom  tlic  date  of  promotion:  except,  that  officers  who  are  required  to 
i;ivo  bond  are  entitled  to  pay  only  from  the  date  of  the  acceptance  and  approval 
of  thrfr  oftlcial  bonds.  Olflcci-s  who  fail  to  return  their  bonds,  duly  executed, 
within  ninety  days  from  the  date  of  their  receipt,  will  be  considered  to  hare 
declined  thoir  iippointmentH,  and  be  dropped  from  the  rolln. 

A.   C.   MYERS. 
.Approved  :  Quartermaster- Oenerol. 

.1.   P.   HkNIAMIN,  Sncrct'iri/  of  W'nr. 


OKNERAL  ORDERS,  |  Ad.utant  and  Inspkcioii-Generai's  Office, 

No.  77.  f  Richmond,  October  22.  ISd'J. 

I...1//  eaui'n  <•/  (ipplicalionv  for  transfer  from  the  army  to  the  navy 
inu,''t  bo  forwarded  throuirh  superior  officers,  who  will  certify  whether 
I  he  jiarty  whose  transfer  is  sought  is  or  is  not  a  seafaring  person. 

II.. The  proposal  of  the  Sputhern  Express  Company  to  carry  funds 
for  the  govc?rnment  having  been  accepted,  all  officem  are  hereby  forbid- 
ilen  sending  ])crsons  for  funds  in  cases  where  the  Express  Company 
can  be  used. 

III. .  O^Vc'R  who  have  been  charged  with  the  disbursement  of 
Bounty  Funps  will  immediately  render  their  aeoounts  to  the  Quarter- 
master -  (Jcneral ;  otherwise  thoy  will  be  reported  for  dismissal,  as 
required  by  law. 

IV.  .Lieutenant-t^'olonel  George  Deas.  Assistant  Adjutant-General, 
Confederate  States  army,  is  assigned  to  duty  in  tho  War  department 
as  Acting  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  and  will  be  obeyed  and  respected 
accordinglj'. 

v.. Paragraph  IT,  General  Orders,  No.  67,  cun'ent  series,  is  modified 
so  as  to  read  as  follows  :   Hereafter  afl  soldiers  under  eighteen  and  over 
8 


90 

forti)  years  of  age  will  be  discharged  at  the  expiration  of  the  terms  for 
which  they  have  engaged  to  serve. 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-GeneraL 


GENERAL  ORDEUS,~|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genekaj.'s  Office, 

No.  78,  /  Richmond,  October  28,  1862. 

I.  .Commandants  of  posts,  when  consulted  by  officers  of-  the  tele- 
graph companies  as  to  the  propriety  of  sending  a  message,  will  advise 
against  it : 

1st.  When  it  relates  to  the  movements  of  troops. 

2d.  When  it  relates  to  the  position  of  particular  corps. 

3d.  When  it  gives  information  from  which  the  movements  and  strength 
of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  any  portion  of  them,  can  be 
inferred. 

II.. The  following  is  published  as  the  schedule  of  average  cost  of 
arms,  or  parts  of  arms  and  accoutrements  required  by  paragraph  78  of 
Ordnance  Regulations : 

Soldiers  will  be  charged  for  loss  on  the  muster  rolls  according  to 
this  table : 

Arms. 

Enfield  rifles $50  00 

Rifle  muskets,  cal.  58 35  00 

"  "  "    69 25  00 

All  other  rifles,  with  bayonets 30  00 

"  "       without     "         25  00 

Smooth-bore  musket  and  bayonet 18  00 

"  musketoons 16  00 

Hall's  carbines 15  00 

Sharpe's     "        ,..,  45  00 

All  other  carbines  at  valuation,  or  not  to  exceed 35  00 

Sabres  of  all  kinds 18  00 

Parts  of  AriMS. 

Bayonets $5  00 

Sabre-bayonets 8  00 

Ramrods 2  00 

Wiper,  screw-driver,  or  ball-screw 1  00 

Spring-vice , 1  50 

Cock-screw. . . .' 1   OO 


in 

Accoutrements. 

Cartridge-box $2  50 

Cap-poueh 1  00 

Waist-bolt 0  75 

Shoulder-belt 1  00 

Bayonet-scabbard 1  00 

Sword-belt     .". I 3  00 

III.  •  General  hospitals  are  under  the  authority  of  the  local  command- 
ing officers  ;  but  their  general  management,  and  the  medical  officers 
thereof,  should  be  left  to  the  control  of  the  senior  surgeon  and  medical 
director,  to  be  interfered  with  by  the  eorainanding  officer  only  in  spe- 
cial cases,  which  will  be  referred  to  the  commander  of  the  department. 

IV.  .Inasmuch  as  the  regulations  concerning  the  issue  of  commis- 
sarj'  stores  have  been  violated  by  issuing  the  same  to  civilians,  here- 
after all  issues  of  subsistence  not  warranted  by  the  regulations  are 
positively  jirohibited. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailjutaiit  and  luitpector- General. 


GKNJiRAL  0KDEKS1  Adjutant  am>  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  79.  i  KiCHMOND.  October  29,  1862. 


I.. At  a  General  Courf  Martial,  convened  at  Tallahassee,  Florida,  on 
the  12th  day  of  September,  1862,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  191, 
dated  August  16,  1862,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-tieneral's 
office,  Richmond,  whereof  Colonel  Gkorgh  P.  Harrison,  Jr.,  .32d 
regiment  Georgia  volunteers,  was  President,  wa.s  arraigned  and  tried 
Major  John  G.  naniwell,  Corps  of  Artillery,  C.  S.  A.,  on  the  following 
chargcs'aud  speciticirtions : 

Charge  I. 
Abandoning  his  post. 

Spccificaiion In  this;  -That  Major  John  6.  BarnwcU,  wliilc  in  command  of  tlie 

detachment  of  troops  at  or  near  New  Smyrnit,  Florida,  for  the  purpose  of 
protecting  tlio  governmenC  property  landed  at  that  point  by  the  steamers 
•Kate'  and  'Cccile.'  did,  on  or  about  the  lltli  day  of  March,  1862,  abandon 
his  post  or  position,  ordering  all  the  troops  of  the  command  off,  leaving  the 
arms  and  .-vmrnunition.  and  other  valuable  properly,  whicli  lie  was. under 
orders  to  protect,  abandoned  to  such  evil-disposed  persons  as  might  choose 
to  tiiko  them  away,  and  to  tlic  enemy,  wliose  approach  in  that  quarter  was 
momentarily  expected." 


Ch.uiok  II. 

Chndttct  subversive  of  good  order  and  military  discipline. 

i^peciUcaiion In  this;  "That  the  Baid  Major  John  O. Barmvell.  after  abandouing 

his  command,  and  while  proceeding  in  the  direction  of  Tallahasisee,  Florida, 
through  the  interior  of  the  state,  did  Rtate  to  divers  persoiiH  in  the  country 
'that  the  property  landed  at  Smyrna  was  abandoned  :'  •'  that  he  believed  the 
last  package  had  crossed  the  St.  John's  river ;'  '  that  the  only  Avay  to  save 
even  a  portion  of  it  was  for  the  people  to  rush  over  and  lake  what  they 
could  carry  off  in  their  hands:'  ■  that  there  were  splendid  guns,  swords,  pis- 
tols, shoes,  blankets,  etc.,  which  could  bo  had  for  the  taking.'  or  words  and 
expressions  of  like  tenor;  which  words  and  expressions  did  induce  many  to 
congi'egate  about  the  camps,  and  tempted  them  to  appropriate  to  them- 
selves articles  of  value,  to  the  detriment  of  the  public  service." 

Findings  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  finds  the  accused,  Major  John  G.  Barnwell,  Corps  of  Artillery,  C.  S. 
army,  "Not  Guilty  of  the  charges  and  specifications  preferred  against  him.  and 
does,  therefore,  hmioi-ahly  acquit  him." 

II.. The  proceedings  in  this  case  being  irregular,  in  the  essential 
particular  that  one  of  the  members  of  the  court,  who  appears  by  the 
record  to  have  been  absent  one  day  while  the  testimony  was  taking, 
afterward  resumed  his  seat,  and  participated  in  the  further  action  of 
the  court,  thereby  vitiating  its  jitdgmeut,  are  disapproved. 

While  there  is  nothing  in  the  record  of  this  ease  to  leave  any  imputa- 
tion upoti  the  courage  and  zeal  of  Major  BarnvrcU,  and  his  skill  and 
judgment  in  managing  his  troops,  his  appropriation  of  the  arms  and 
equipments  to  the  use  of  the  men  under  his  command  is  not  justified 
by  any  exigency  that  seems  to  have  existed,  nor  to  have  been  made 
with  proper  regard  for  the  respousibilitj'  of  the  officer  under  whose 
immediate  charge  they  were. 

Neither  Major  Barnwell  nor  Major  Simkins,  assistant  quartermaster 
(tlie  prosecutor  in  the  case),  seem  to  have  apprehended  the  extent  of 
their  duty  in  regard  to  the  proper  protection  of  these  public  stores,  and 
to  their  failure  and  want  of  a  hearty  co-operation  some  loss  of  public 
property  is  undoubtedly  due. 

Major  John  G.  Barnwell,  Corps  of  Artillerj',  C.  S.  A.,  is  released  from 
arrest,  and  will  return  to  duty. 

III.. The  General  Court  Martial  of  which  Col.  Georgk  P.  HARiy- 
sos,  Jr.,  32d  Regiment  Georgia  volunteers,  is  President  is  dissolved. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPEP., 
Adjutant  and  Lnfijiector-General. 


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(JENKRAL  ORDEK.S.]  Adjutant  and  In.-jpector-Iienbkai.'s  Office, 

N'o.  80.  I  Richmond.  October  -30,  186'i. 

I.. 'Upon  the- death  of  a  cominisaioned  diriecr  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States,  his  immediate  comnmndinfj  oflicer  will  forthwith 
make  out  a  certificate  of  the  fact,  stating  hi.«i  rank  and  the  command 
to  which  he  helonped;  when,  where,  and  from  what  cause  he  diwl: 
and,  if  possihle,  when,  and  bj'  whom  he  was  last  paid. 

Upon  the  death  of  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  private  in  said  ser- 
vice, the  officer  commanding  hin  company  at  the  time  of  kin  death  will  in 
like  manner  forthwith  make  out  a  descriptive  list,  in  which  he  will  set 
forth  when,  where,  and  by  whom  he  was  enlisted:  when,  where,  and 
from  iiHiat  cause  he  died:  when  and  hy  whom  lie  was  l.Tst  paid: 
whether  there  is  any  bounty  or  commutation  for  clothing  ilue  hiiu: 
and  whether  there  arc  any  stoppages  against  him;  for  what  cause,  and 
of  what  amount. 

.    Thene  ccrtifivatcH  and  deneriptirc  lixtn  will   be   transmitted   directly  U< 
the  Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States. 

YV.  .SurijeouK  and  amtistant  uniifconx  in  chari/e  of  milititrif  lionj^itith, 
or  of  sick  and  wonuded  officrrK  and  soldicru  in  private  hospitals  and 
houses,  upon  the  death  of  cither  an  officer  or  a  soldier,  will  forthwitli 
make  out  and  forward  directly  to  the  Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury 
of  the  Confederate  States  a  certificate  stating,  in  the  case  of  a  commis- 
sioned officer,  his  rank,  and  the  commauil  to  which  he  belonged;  in  the 
cases  of  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates,  the  companj'  and  regi- 
ment to  which  they  belonged;  and  in  all  cases,  when,  where,  and  from 
what  cause  they  died.  Should  the  deceased  leave  any  effects  or  monej-, 
a  statement  setting  forth  a  list  of  the  effects,  the  amount  of  the  money, 
and  in  whose  hands  the  same  will  remain  until  legally  called  for,  will 
accompany  said  certificate. 

III.  .Lieutenant  -  Colonel  W.  Ijeuoy  Broun,  on  ordnance  d"ty,  is 
hereb}'  detailed  to  supervise  tho  examination  of  candidates  in  the  army 
for  appointments  as  artillcrj*  officers  for  ordnance  duty  as  authorizeil 
by  act  of  Congress,  approved  16th  September,  1S62. 

He  will,  in  succession,  proceed  to  the  several  head-quarters  of  the 
armies,  under  such  special  instructions  as  may  be  given  him  hereafter; 
and  tho  General  commanding  will,  on  his  application,  associate  with 
him  any  two  artillerj'  officers  ho  may  select,  performing  ordnance 
duties,  who  together  with  himself  will  constitute  an  Examining  Board. 

Due  notice  will  be  given  through  the  Richmond  Enquirer  of  the  time 
at  which  examinations  will  be  hold. 


Applications  for  permission  to  be  examiued  will  be  addressed  to  the 
Goieral  commanding  each  army,  and  will  be  filed  with  his  Chief  of 
Ordnance,  to  be  laid  before  the  board  of  examiners. 

IV'  >  Ordnance  officers  8erviii(j  ov  the  stuffs  of  Commanding  Generals 
will  not  enter  into  contracts  for,  nor  purchase  ordnance  supplies,  ex- 
cept in  cases  of  necessity,  on  the  authority  of  the  General,  which  must 
be  attached  to  the  contract  or  account  for  purchase. 

The  exigency  requiring  the  purchase  or  contract  will  also  be  stated. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General, 


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GENERAL  OKDEKS,  1  Adjutant  am>  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  81.  j  KiCHMOND.  November  1.  1862.    » 

I. .  The  payment  of  commissiuned  officers  by  any  other  quartermaster 
than  the  quartermaster  of  the  command  to  which  they  belong  is  hereby 
prohibited,  unless  they  exhibit  to  the  quartermaster  to  whom  applica- 
tion for  payment  is  made  orders  from  their  commanding  officers,  or 
from  the  department,  showing  them  to  be  absent  on  detached  duty,  or 
leaves  of  absence  from  the  Commanding  General  under  whom  they  are 
serving. 

II.. The  following  will  be  the  organization  of  a  company  of  Light 
Artillery,  according  to  the  number  of  guns  composing  the  battery,  viz: 

FoFt  A  Batteuy  of  Six  Guns. 

1  Captain. 

2  First  Lieiftonants.    . 
2  Second  Lieutenants. 

1   Sergeant-Major  or  First  Sergeant. 

1  Quartermaster-Sergeant. 
C  Sergeants. 

12  Corporals. 

2  Buglers  or  Trumpeters. 

1  Guidon. 

2  Artificers.  , 
Gl  to  125  Privates. 


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Fon  A  Batteuy  of  Four  Huns., 

1    Captain. 

1  First  Lieutenant. 

2  Second  Lieutenants. 

1  Sergeant-Major  or  First  Sergeant. 

1  Quartermaster-Sergeant. 
4  Sergoant.-i. 

8  Corporal.i. 

2  Buglcr.5. 

1  Guiflon. 

2  Artificers. 

C4  to  125  Privates:. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiittiiil  itiul  hiKj)v.v.lor-(ieiiirat. 


GKNK1!.\L  ORPKIiS,")  Awitant  and  lN.«rF.cTon-Gr.NERAL".s  Office, 

No.  82.  )  UicnMOND,  Kovcmhcr  3,  1862. 

I.. The  following  acts  of  Congress  and  regulations  are  published  for 
the  information  of  all  concerned: 

An  ant  to  fartJier profidc /or  the  Puhli'c  Drfenfc. 

In  view  of  the  exigencies  of  tlie  country,  and  tlie  .absolute  necessity  of  keeping 
in  the  service  our  gallant  army,  and  of  pl.icing  in  the  tieM  a  large  additional 
force  to  meet  the  advancing  columns  of  the  enemy  now  invading  our  soil  :  Tlierc- 
forc. 

Sec.  1.  Tlie  Om/jrrss  of  the  Confederate  Staffs  of  America  d-n  enact.  That  the  Pres- 
ident be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  call  out  .and  place  in  the  military  service  of 
the  Confederate  States  for  three  years,  unless  the  war  shall  have  been  sooner  ended, 
all  while  men  who  are  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of 
eighteen  and  thirty-iive  years  at  the  time  the  call  or  calls  may  be  made,  who  are 
legally  exempted  from  military  service^  All  of  the  persons  aforesaid  who  are 
now  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederacy,  and  whose  terms  of  service  will  exi>ire 
before  the  end  of  the  war.  shall  be  continued  in  tlie  service  fur  three  yeais  from 
tlie  date  of  their  original  enlistment,  unless  the  war  sliall  have  bcoii  sooner  ended ; 
provided.  Itoircver.  that  all  such  companies,  scjuadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments 
whose  term  of  original  enlistment  was  for  twelve  months,  shall  have  the  right, 
within  forty  days,  on  a  day  to  be  fixed  by  the  connnander  of  the  brigade,  to  re- 
organize said  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments,  by  electing  all  their  officers 
which  they  had  a  right  heretofore  to  elect,  who  shall  be  commissioned  by  the 
President:  pnrrided.  further,  that  fnilonghs  not  exceeding  sixty  d.ays,  witli  trans- 
portation home  and  back,  sh.all  be  granted  to  all  those  retained  in  the  service  by 


the  pruvisions  uf  this  act  bcvuiid  the  period  of  their  original  enlistment,  anil  who 
have  not  heretofore  received  furloughs  under  tlie  provisions  of  an  act  entitled  "an 
act  providing  for  the  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  privates  and  non-cou>- 
'  missioned  officers  in  the  Provisional  army,"  approved  11th  December,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one:  said  furloughs  to  be  granted  fit  such  times  and  in  such 
numbers  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  deem  most  compntilile  with  the  public  in- 
terest: ajid  provided,  further,  that,  in  lieu  of  a  furlough,  the  commutation  value  in 
money  of  the  transportation  herein  above  granted  sliall  be  paid  to  each  private, 
musician,  or  non-commissioned  officer  who  may  elect  to  receive  it,  at  such  time  as 
the  furlough  would  otherwise  be  granted :  j:irovided,  further,  that  all  persona  under 
the  age  of  eighteen  years  or  over  the  age  of  thirty-five  years,  who  are  now  enrolled 
in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  in  the  regiments,  squadrons,  bat- 
talions. ft.nd  companies  hereafter  to  be  reorganized,  shall  be  required  to  remain  in 
their  respective  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments  for  ninety  days, 
unless  their  places  can  l)e  sooner  supplied  by  otliei'  recruits  not  now  in  the  service, 
•who  are  Tjetween  the  .ages  of  eighteen  and  thirty-five  years.  And  all  laws  and 
parts  of  laws  providing  for  the  re-enlistmeut  of  volunteers  and  the  organization 
thereof  into  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  or  regiments,  shall  be  and  the  same 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Skc.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  -such  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  or 
regiments  organized  or  in  proce.ss  of  organization  by  authority  from  the  Secretary 
of  War,  as  may  be  within  thirty  days  from  the  passage  of  this  act  so  far  com- 
pleted as  to  have  the  whole  nyniber  of  men  requisite  for  organization  actually 
enrolled,  not  embracing,  in  said  organizations  any  persons  now  in  service,  shall  be 
mustered  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  as  part  of  the  land  forces  of  the 
same;  to  be  received  in  that-arm  of  the  service  in  which  they  are  authorized  to 
organize;  and  shall  elect  their  company,  battalion,  and  regimental  officers. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  for  the  eni'olment  of  all  persons  compre- 
hended within  the  provisions  of  this  act,  who  are  not  .alro.ndy  in  service  in  the 
firmies  of  the  Confederate  States,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  President,  with  the  con- 
sent of  the  Governcfrs  of  the  respective  states,  to  employ  state  office  re ;  and,  on 
failure  to  obtain  such  consent,  he  shall  employ  Confederate  officers,  charged  with 
the  duty  of  making  such  enrolment  in  .accordance  with  rules  and  regulations  to 
be  prescribed  by  him. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  persons  enrolled  under  the  provisions  of  the 
preceding  section  shall  be  assigned  by  the  Secretarj'  of  War  to  tlie  different  com- 
panies now  in  service,  until  each  company  is  filled  to  its  maximum  number,  and 
the  persons  so  enrolled  shall  bo  assigned  to  companies  from  the  states  from  which 
they  respectively  come. 

Sec.  5.  Be  it  further  enactfd.  That  all  seamen  and  ordinary  seamen  in  the  laud 
forces  of  the  Confederate  States,  enrolled  utider  the  provisions  of  this  act,  may,  on 
application  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  be  transferred  from  the  land  forces  to 
the  naval  service. 

Sec.  6.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  in  all  cases  where  a  state  may  not  have  in 
the  .army  a  number  of  regiments,  battalions,  squadrons,  or  companies  sufficient  to 
absorb  the  number  of  persons  subject  to  military  service  under  this  act.  belonging 
to  such  state,  then  the  residue  or  excess  thereof  shall  be  kept  as  a  reserve,  undej' 
such  regulations  as  may  be  established  by  the  Secretary  of  W.ar,  and  that  at  stated 
periods  of  not  greater  than  three  mdiiths,  details,  determined  by  lot.  shall  be  made 
from  s.aid  rrse.rve,  .so  that  each  company  shall,  as  nearly  aa  practicable,  bo  kept 


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full:  proridci,  that  the  persons  beUl  in  reserve  may  remain  at  home  until  cailid 
into  Rervice  by  the  Freoident:  provided,  alfo,  that  during  th^ir  sta}-  at  home  tl  ey 
nhall  not  receive  pay:  proiidfd.furthr.r.  that  the  persons  comprehendefl  in  Ih V 
act  shall  not  l>e  F-.iliject  to  the  Uulee  and  Articles  of  War  until  mustered  into  tht- 
actual  service  of  the  Conffdernte  States;  except  that  said  persons,  when  enrolled 
and  liable  to  duty,  if  they  fliall  wilfully  refuse  to  obey  said  call,  each  of  th*ni 
shall  be  held  to  be  a  deserttr.  and  punished  as  snch  under  said  Articles:  j)rorirf<d. 
fiirVier,  that  whenever,  in  tlu-  opinion  of  the  President,  the  exigencies  of  the 
public  service  may  require  it.  he  shall  be  autliurixed  to  call  into  actual  service  the 
entire  reserve,  or  ••o  much  as  may  be  necessary,  not  previously  asoigned  to  differ, 
ont  companies  in  service  under  provision  of  section  four  of  this  act.  Raid  resc.-A-e 
shall  be  organized  under  such  rules  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  adopt:  jiroiica 
the  company,  t)iittalion.  and  regimental  officers  shall  be  elected  by  the  irccjn 
composing  the  same:  provid<d,  the  troops  raised  in  any  one  state  shall  not  be  c(  tn- 
bined  in  regimental,  battalion,  squadron,  or  company  organir.ation  with  troope 
raised  in  any  other  gtates. 

Si:c.  7.  Beitftirlhir  enacted.  That  all  soldiers  mw  serving  in  the  army  or  mus 
tered  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  enrolled  in  said  servici- 
under  the  authorizati'ns  heretofore  issued  by  the  pecretaiy  of  War,  and  who  are 
continued  in  the  S'.rvi'  e  by  virtue  of  this  act.  who  have  not  received  the  bounty  i  f 
fifty  dollars  allowed  by  e.\isting  laws,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  said  bounty. 

Sec.  8.  Be  il  /urUar  otactcd.  That  ''ach  man  who  may  hereafter  be  mustered 
into  the  service,  and  who  shall  arm  himself  with  a  musket,  shot-gun,  rifle,  or  car- 
bine, accepted  as  an  efficient  weapon,  shall  be  paid  the  value  thereof,  to  be  ascer- 
tained by  the  mustering  offiotn'.  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  Secretary  of  War,  if  he  is  willing  to  sell  the  same;  and  if  he  is  not.  then  he 
shall  be  entitled  to  receive  one  dollar  a  month  for  the  use  of  .said  received  and 
approved  musket,  rifle,  shot-gun,  or  carbiitc. 

Sec.  9.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  persons  not  liable  for  duty  may  be  received 
as  substitutes  for  those  who  urc.  umler  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  ty 
the  Secretary  of  War. 

Skc.  10.  Be  it  farther  enacUd,  That  all  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  the  President 
from  the  company,  battalion,  squadron,  or  regiment  in  which  such  vacancies  shall 
(Kcnr,  by  promotion  according  to  seniojity.  except  in  cases  of  disability  or  other 
incompetency :  provided,  hoioever,  that  the  President  may.  when  in  his  opinion  it 
may  be  proper,  lill  inch  v.icancy  or  v.acancies  by  the  promotion  of  any  officer,  or 
officers,  or  private  or  priv.ites  from  such  company,  battalion,  squadron,  or  regimtct 
who  shall  have  been  distinguished  in  the  service  by  exhibition  of  valor  and  skill. 
and  that  whenever  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  the  lowest  grade  of  the  commissioned 
oflicers  of  a  company  said  vacancy  shajl  be  filled  by  election  :  proiudecf,  that  ail 
appointments  made  by  the  I'resident  shall  be  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Senate. 

Sec.  W.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  provisions  of  the  first  section  of  this  act. 
relating  to  the  election  of  officers,  shall  apply  to  those  regiments,  battalions,  and 
squadrons  which  are  composed  of  twelve  months  and  war  companies  combined  in 
the  same  organization,  without  regard  to  the  manner  in  which  the  officers  theieoi 
were  originally  appointed. 

Skc.  12.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  each  company  of  infantry  shall  consist  oi 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five,  rank  and  file;  each  company  of  field  artillery  of  ..Ge 
hundred  and  fifty,  rank  and  file;  and  each  of  cavalry  of  eighty,  rank  and  file. 


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Sec.  13.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  persons  subject  tn  em-olmont.  who  are 
not  now  in  service  uuder  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  permitted,  previous 
to  such  enrolment,  to  volunteer  in  companies  now  in  the  service.  [Approved 
April  16. 1862.1        ^ 

[No.  17.] 

An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  provide  further  for  the  Public 
Defence,  approved  April  16,  1862. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  the  President 
he  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  call  out  and  place  in  the  military  service  of  the 
Confederate  States  for  three  years,  unless  the  war  should  have  been  sooner  end»d, 
all  white  men  who  are  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of 
t!iirty-flve  and  forty-flve  years  at  the  time  the  call  or  calls  may  be  made,  and  who 
are  not  at  such  time  or  times  legally  exempted  from  military  service,  or  such 
part  thereof  as  in  his  judgment  may  be  necessary  to  the  public  defence;  such 
call  or  calls  to  be  made  under  the  provisions  and  according  to  the  terms  of  the  act 
to  which  this  is  an  amendment;  and  such  authority  shall  exist  iu  the  President, 
during  the  present  war,  as  to  all  persons  who  now  are  or  may  liereafter  become 
eighteen  years  of  age ;  and  when  once  enrolled,  all  persons  between  the  ages  of 
eighteen  and  forty-five  shall  serve  their  full  time  :  provided,  that  if  the  President, 
in  calling  out  troops  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  fir.-^t  call  fir 
only  a  part  of  the  persons  between  the  ages  heretofore  stated,  he  shall  call  for 
those  between  the  ages  of  thirty-five  and  any  other  age  less  than  forty-five :  pro- 
vided, that  nothing  hei'ein  contained  shall  be  understood  as  repealing  or  modifying 
any  part  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  amendatory,  except  as  herein  expressly  stated: 
and  provided,  further,  that  those  called  out  under  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which 
this  is  an  amendment,  shall  be  first  and  immediately  ordered  to  fill  to  their  maxi- 
mum number  the  companies,  battalions,  squadrons,  and  regiments  from  the 
respective  states  at  the  time  the  act  to  further  provide  for  the  public  defence, 
approved  16th  April,  1862,  was  jiassed,  and  the  surplus,  if  any,  shall  be  assigned  to 
organizations  formed  from  each  state  since  the  passage  of  that  act,  or  placed  in  new 
organizations,  to  be  oflScered  by  the  state  having  such  residue,  according  to  tlio 
laws  thereof,  or  disposed  of  as  now  i)rovided  by  law:  p^-ovided,  that  the  President 
is  authorized  to  suspend  the  execution  of  this  act.  or  the  act  to  which  this  is  an 
amendment,  in  any  locality  where  he  may  find  it  impracticable  to  execute  the 
same,  and  that  in  sucli  locality,  and  during  said  suspension,  the  President  is 
authorized  to  receive  troops  into  the  Confederate  service  under  any  of  the  acts 
passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress  prior  to  the  passage  of  the  act  to  provide 
further  for  th&  public  defence,  approved  16th  April,  1S62.  [Approved  September 
27, 1862.] 

[No.  53.] 

An  act  to  exempt  certain  Persons  from  Military  Duty,  and  to  repeal  an 
act  entitled  "An  act  to  exempt  certain  Persons  from  Enrolvient  for 
Service  in  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,"  approved  2\st  April. 
1862. 

Thfi  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  all  persons 
who  shall  be  held  unfit  for  military  service  in  the  field,  by  reason  of  bodily  or 


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mental  incapacity  or  imbeollity.  iimler  rules  tn  )ie  prpsoribeil  l>y  flie  Secretury  of 
War:  the  Vice-President  of  the  Confederate  Stales:  tlio  officers,  judicial  and 
executive,  of  the  Confecferate  and  state  povernnients.  includins  postmaster.^ 
appointed  by  the  President  and  confirmed  by  tlie  Senate,  and  such  clerks  in  their 
offices  as  are  allowed  by  the  Postnia8ter-(}eneral  and  now  employed,  and  excluding 
all  otluT  (lostmasters.  their  apsistants  and  clerks,  and  except  such  state  officers  as 
the  several  states  may  have  declared,  or  may  hereafter  declare  by  law  to  be  liable 
to  militia  duty:  the  members  of  both  houses  of  the  Confcress  of  the  Confederate 
States,  and  of  the  legislatures  of  the  several  states,  and  their  respec  tive  officers  ; 
all  clerks  now  in  the  offices  of  the  Confederate  and  state  povernments  a\ith(>ri7.ed 
by  law.  recciviud  salaries  or  fees:  all  volunteer  troops,  heretofore  i-aise  1  by  any 
state  since  the  passage  of  the  act  entitled  '"An  Jict  further  to  provide  for  the 
jiublic  defence.'  approved  .April  16.  1862.  while  such  troops  shall  be  in  active 
service  under  state  authority  :  prnridrd.  that  this  exemptiim  shall  not  apply  to 
any  person  who  was  liable  to  be  called  into  service  by  virtue  ot  said  act  of  April 
16.  1862:  all  pilots  ami  persons  enjjaped  in  the  merchant-marine  service;  the 
president,  superintendents,  conductors,  treasurer,  chief  clerk,  enRinecrs.  mana.gers. 
station  agents,  section  msisters,  two  expert  track  hands  to  each  section  of  eight 
miles,  and  mechanics  in  the  active  service  and  employment  of  railroad  companies, 
not  to  embrace  laborers,  porters,  and  messengers:  the  president,  general  superin- 
tendent and  operators  of  teiegnii>h  companies,  the  local  superintendent  .ind 
operators  of  said  comi>anies.  not  to  exceed  four  in  number  at  any  locality,  but  that 
at  the  seat  of  government  of  the  Confederate  States;  the  president,  superintend- 
ents. eapt-»ins.  enyineors,  chief  clerk,  and  mechanics  in  the  active  sei  vie-  an'l 
eiuploymonl  of  all  companies  engaged  in  river  and  canal  navigation,  and  all  caj). 
tains  of  boats  and  engineers  therein  employed;  one  editor  of  each  newspaper  now 
b«ing  publishe  I.  and  such  e!upl  lye-.-s-  .as  the  editor  or  proprietor  may  certily  ui)on 
oath  to  be  indispensable  for  cimlucting  the  publication;  the  i)ublic  i)rinter,  and 
those  employed  to  perform  the  public  printing  for  the  Confederate  and  state 
governments;  ever.v  nvinister  of  religion  authorized  to  preach  according  to  the 
rules  of  his  .sect  and  in  tlie  regular  discharge  of  ministerial  duties,  and  ,ill  persons 
who  have  been  and  now  are  members  of  the  society  of  Friends,  and  the  association 
of  Dnnkards.  Nazarenes.aml  Meniiouists,  in  regular  membership  in  their  respective 
ilenominations:  provklal.  members  of  the  society  of  FrieniKs.  Na/.areues.  Mennou-# 
ists,  and  Dnnkards  sh,all  furnish  substitutes  or  i>;>y  a  tax  of  $500  each  into  the 
public  treasury;  all  physicians  who  now  are.  and  for  the  last  five  years  have  been, 
in  actual  pr.aetice  of  their  profession;  all  shoemakers,  tanners,  blacksmiths, 
wagon-makers,  millers,  and  their  engineers,  millwrights,  skilled  and  .actually 
employed  .at  their  regular  vocation  in  the  said  trades,  habitually  engaged  in  work- 
ing for  the  public,  aud  while  so  actually  employed:  provided,  sviid  persons  shall 
make  oath  in  writing  tluit  they  are  so  skilled  and  actuall.v  employed  at  the  time 
at  their  regular  vocation  in  one  of  the  above  trades ;  which  affidavit  shall  onl.v  be 
prima  facie  evidence  of  the  facts  therein  stated :  provided,  further,  that  the 
exemptions  herein  granted  to  persons  by  reason  of  their  peculiar  mechanical  or 
other  occupation  or  employment,  not  connected  with  the  public  service,  shall  be 
subject  to  the  condition  that  the  products  of  the  labor  of  such  exemi>ts.  or  of  the 
companies  and  establishments  with  which  they  are  connected,  shall  be  sold  and 
disposed  of  by  the  proprietors  at  prices  not  exceeding  seventy-five  per  centum 
ui)on  the  cost  of  production,  or  within  a  maximum  to  be  fixed  by  the  Secretary  of 
War,  uuiler  such  regulatiiHis  as  he  n»ay  prescribe:  and  it  ts  further  provided,  that 


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if  the  proprietors  of  any  sucli  manufacturing  establishments  shall  be  shown,  upon 
evidence,  to  be  submitted  to.  and  judged  of  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  have 
violated,  or  in  any  manner  evaded  the  true  intent  and  spirit  of  the  furegoins;  pro- 
viso, the  exemptions  thei'eiu  granted  shall  no  longer  be  extended  to  them,  their 
superintendents,  or  operatives  iu  said  establishments,  but  they  and  each  and  every 
of  them  -shall  be  forthwith  enrolled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act.  and  ordered 
into  the  Confederate  army,  and  shall  in  no  event  be  again  e.vempted  therefrom  by 
reasmi  of  said  mannfactnring establishments  or  employment  therein;  all  superin- 
tendents of  public  hosjiitals.  lunatic  asylums,  and  the  regular  physicians,  nurses, 
and  attendants  therein, and  the  teachers  employed  in  the  institutions  for  the  deaf, 
dumb,  .and  blind:  in  each  apothecary  store  now  established  and  doing  business 
one  apothecary  in  good  standing,  who  is  a  practical  apothecary;  superintendent* 
and  operators  in  wool  and  cotton  factories,  paper-mills,  and  superintendents  and 
managers  of  wool-carding  machines,  who  may  be  exempted  by  the  Secretary  of 
War:  provided,  the  profits  of  such  estiiblishments  shall  not  exceed  seventy-live  ])cr 
centnnj  upon  the  cost  of  production,  to  be  determined  upon  oath  of  the  parties, 
subject  to  the  same  penalties  for  violation  of  tlie  provisions  herein  contained  «s 
are  herein  befoie  provided  in  c.ise  of  other  manufacturing  and  mechanical  employ- 
ments ;  all  pre.sidents  and  teachers  of  colleges,  academies,  schools,  and  theologiciU 
seminaries  who  have  been  regularly  engaged  as  such  for  two  years  previous  to  the 
pa.asage  of  this  act:  all  artisans,  mechanics,  and  employees,  in  the  establishments 
of  the  government  for  the  manufacture  of  arms,  ordnance,  ordnance  stores,  and 
other  munitions  of  war,  saddles,  harness,  and  army  supplies,  who  may  bo  certified 
by  the  oflicer  in  charge  thereof,  as  necessary  for  such  ostablishment*;  also,  all 
artisans,  mechanics,  and  employees  in  tlie  establishments  of  such  persons  as  are  or 
may  be  engaged  under  contr.acts  with  the  government  in  furnishing  arms,  ord- 
nance, ordnance  stores,  and  other  munitions  of  war :  jirovidcd  that  the  Chief  of  the 
Ordnance  bureau,  or  some  ordnance  officer  authorized  by  him  for  the  purpose,  shall 
approve  of  the  number  of  operatives  required  in  such  establishments;  all  per- 
sons employed  in  tlie  manufactureof  arms,  or  ordnance  of  any  kind  by  the  -)everal 
states;  or  by  contractors  to  furnish  the  same  to  the  several  state  governments, 
whom  the  Governor  or  Secretary  of  State  thereof  may  certify  to  be  necessary  to 
the  same;  .all  persons  engaged  in  the  consfructiou  of  ships,  gun-boats,  engines, 
#  sails,  or  other  articles  necessary  to  the  public  defence,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Navy;  all  superintendents,  managers,  mechanics,  and  miners 
employed  in  the  production  and  manufacture  of  sait  to  the  extent  of  twenty 
bushels  per  day,  and  of  le.ad  and  iron,  and  all  persons  engaged  in  burning  coke  for 
smelting,  and  manufacture  of  iron  ;  regular  miners  in  coal  mines,  and  all  colliers 
eng.oged  in  making  charcoal  for  ni.iking  pig  and  bar  iron,  not  to  embrace  laborers, 
messengers,  wagoners,  and  servants,  unless  enipK)yed  at  works  conducted  uniler 
the  authority  and  by  the  officers  or  agents  of  a  sUite.  or  in  works  employed  in  the 
production  of  iron  for  the  Confederate  States;  one  male  citizen  f5r  every  500  head 
of  cattle,  for  every  250  head  of  horses  or  ntules,  and  one  shepherd  for  every  500 
head  of  sheep,  of  such  per,sons  as  are  engaged  exclusively  in  raising  stock :  pro- 
vided, that  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  do  military  duty  engaged 
v.ith  such  person  in  raising  stock :  to  secure  the  proper  police  of  the  country,  one 
poison  either  as  agent,  owner,  or  overseer  on  each  plantation  on  which  one  white 
person  is  required  to  be  kept  by  the  laws  or  ordinances  of  any  state,  and  on  which 
there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  do  military  service ;  and  in  states  having 
no  such  law,  one  person  as  agent,  owner,  or  overseer  on  each  plantation  of  twenty 


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negroes,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  ftdnlt  not  liable  to  military  service; 
andfurllurmorc.foTaAilUional  police  for  every  twenty  negroes  on  two  or  more 
plantations,  within  five  miles  of  each  other,  and  each  having  less  than  twenty  ne- 
'^roe.s,  on  which  there  is  no  male  white  adult  not  liable  to  military  duty,  one  per.sun, 
being  the  oldest  of  the  owner.s  or  overseers  on  such  plantations;  and  such  other 
persons  as  the  President  shall  be  satisfied  on  account  of  J.U3tire.  equity,  or  neces- 
sity ought  to  be  e.xemjttcd.  are  hereby  exempted  from  military  service  in  the 
urmies  of  the  Confederate  .States:  also  a  regiment  raised  under  and  by  authority 
<d'  the  State  of  Texas  for  frontier  defence,  now  in  the  service  of  said  state,  while 
in  such  service:  provided,  further,  that  the  exemptions  herein  above  enumerated 
and  granted  hereliy.  shall  only  continue  while  the  persons  exempted  arc  actually 
(Migaged  in  tlieir  respective  pursuits  or  occupations. 

Sec.  2.  Be  il  further  enacted.  That  the  act  entitled  "  An  .let  to  exempt  certain 
persons  from  enrolment  for  serviie  in  the  armies  of  the  ('onfederate  State^i," 
approved  the  'Jlst  of  Ajiril,  1802,  is  hereby  repealed.    j.Vpproved  October  11,  l'Sl"2.J 

[No.  42.] 

An  art  to  amend  an  act  entitled  "  .'l)i  act  to  further  praride  for  the  I'lih- 
lic  Defence,"  approred  IQth  April,  1862,  nnd  the  act  to  amend  the 
«ame.  approved  September  27,  1862. 

The  Omgress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Jmeriea  do  enact,  That  all  persons  sub- 
ject to  enrolment  for  military  service  m.ay  be  enrolled  iinder  instructions  from 
the  War  department,  and  reported  by  the  enrolling  officer  wherever  found, 
whether  within  the  state  or  county  of  their  resi<leiice  or  not:  and  when  so 
i-nrolled.  shall  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  law  as  fully  as  if  enrolled  within 
the  county  and  state  of  which  they  may  be  residents:  provided,  that  this  act  shall 
not  extend  to  any  member  of  a  military  organization  under  any  state  law  while 
he  leniains  in  actual  service  without  the  limits  of  liis  state:  and  jirovided. further. 
that  the  President  is  authorized  to  suspend  the  execution  of  this  act  .is  regards  the 
residents  of  any  locality  where  he  may  lind  it  impracticable  to  execute  the  act 
futitled  ••  An  act  to  further  provide  for  the  public  defence."  approved  .'Vpril  10. 
1862.  and  the  act  to  amend  the  last  mentioned  act,  approved  September  27.  1S62. 
[  Approved  October  8,  1862  ] 

[No.  49.} 

An  act  to  establish  placet  of  Jiendezroii-i  for  the  E.vaminatxon  of  Enrolled 

men. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  there  shall  be 
established  in  each  conuty.  parish,  or  district,  and  in  any  city  in  a  county,  parish, 
or  district  in  the  several  st.ates,  a  place  of  rendezvous  for  the  per.sons  in  said 
County,  district,  parish,  or  city  enrolled  for  military  duty  in  the  field,  who  shall  b* 
there  examined  by  one  or  more  surgeons  to  be  employed  by  the  government,  to 
be  assigned  to  thatMuty  by  the  I'resident  on  a  day  of  which  ten  days  notice  shall 
be  given  by  said  surgeon,  and  from  day  to  day  next  thereafter  until  all  who  shall 
be  in  attendance  for  the  purpose  of  examination  shall  have  been  examined:  and 
the  decisions  of  said  surgeons,  under  rcguL-ttions  to  be  cslablish«>d  by  the  Secretary 


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uf  \V;ir.  as  til  the  plivsical  and  mental  cai)!>city  of  any  such  person  for  military 
.Itity  in  the  fielil,  shall  be  final ;  and  those  only  thus  luicertained  to  be  tit  for  mili- 
lary  dnty  in  the  field  shall  ho  required  to  assemble  at  camps  of  instruction. 

Sec.  2.  There  shall  be  jussignert  to  each  congre-ssional  district  in  the  several 
states  three  surgeons,  who  shall  constitute  a  board  of  examination  in  8ucli  ilis- 
trict(  f 'r  the  purpose  specified  in  the  foregoing  section  any  one  or  more  of  whom 
may  act  at  any  place  of  rendezvous  in  said  districts. 

Ski;.  3.  When  it  shall  appear  to  any  surgeon  attending  such  place  of  rendezvtiiis 
liy  till'  ccitificate  of  a  respectable  physician  resident  in  that  county,  district, 
(rirish  oi- city  in  a  county,  parish,  or  district  that  any  enrolled  person  therein  is 
n  i-ible  to  attend  on  account  of  sickness,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  surgeon  to  lile 
i>iid  i-ertificate  with  the  commandant  of  the  nearest  camp  of  instruction;  and  if 
the  iK'ison  named  therein  shall  not  within  a  reasonable  time  report  himself  for 
examination  at  said  camp  of  instruction  or  liis  continual  disability  certified  by 
the  certiticate  of  a  respectable  physician  of  his  county,  city,  district,  or  parish,  he 
slial!  be  held  liable  as  abs'iit  without  leave  of  his  comn^nding  officer.  [Approveil 
().-tol..Tll,  1862.J 


II.  Commandants  of  (Jon.scrii'ts  and  Cami'S  ok  In'Structiox. 

1.  An  ofRecr,  styled  the  commamlant  of  eonscript.«,  will  be  aji- 
Ijointeil  for  each  state,  who  will  be  charged  with  the  supervision  of  the 
enrolment  and  disposition  of  conscripts.  He  will  establish  one  or 
more  camps,  in  which  conscripts  will  be  assembled  and  instructed,  and 
may  recommend  for  appointment  a  surgeon,  a  quartermaster,  a  com- 
missary, and  the  requisite  number  of  drillmasters  for  e.ach  camp.  If 
m'lre  than  one  camp  be  established,  he  msty  also  recommend  a  com- 
mandant for  each  camp  not  under  his  own  immediate  command. 

2.  A  hospital  will  be  established  and  huts  for  winter  quarters  eon- 
^iructed  at  each  camp;  and  all  conscripts  assembled  at  the  camps  will 
lie  promptly  vaccinated,  if  it  has  not  already  been  done. 

'■i.  The  commandant  of  conscripts  will  require  from  each  camp  a 
report  on  the  first  ^Monday  in  every  month,  showing  the  e.xpenses  of 
the  preceding  month  ;  the  number  of  conscri))ts  in  the  camp;  the  num- 
ber received  and  sent  away  during  the  preceding  month  ;  the  regi- 
ments, battalions,  or  companies  to  which  they  were  sent;  the  number 
transferred  to  the  navy;  the  number  of  sick;  the  nature  of  their 
diseases,  and  the  number  of  deaths.  Ho  will  make  a  consolidated 
montlilj'  report  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  of  the  army. 

4.  The  commandants  of  conscripts  east  of  the  Mississippi  river  will 
receive  orders  only  from  the  War  department,  and  will  not  be  inter- 
fered with  by  Generals  commanding  departments  or  ai:jiiies  in  the  field. 
\Vest  of  the  Mississippi  they  will  report  to  and  receive  instructions 
from  the  Commanding  General  of  the  Trans-iMississippi  department, 
who  will  require  them  to  conform  as  nearly  as  possible  to  this  order, 


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and  to  the  regulations  prescribed  for  commandants  east  of  the  Mis^is- 
sijipi.  lie  will  make  a  consolidated  monthly  report  to  the  Adjutant 
and  iDspector-Genoral  of  the  army. 

6.  The  commandants  of  all  regiments,  battalions,  squadrons,  or  unat- 
tached companies  which  were  in  service  on  the  16th  of  April,  1S62, 
desiring  to  receive  conscripts,  may  transmit,  through  the  Adjutant  and 
Inspector-Ueneral  of  the  army,  statements  of  the  strength  of  their 
commapds  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  in  their  respective  states. 
who,  unless  otherwise  ordered,  will,  as  far  as  practicable,  distribute  the 
••onscripfs  of  the  state  among  its  regiments,  battalions,  and  companies 
thereof,  in  proportion  to  their  respective  deficiencies. 

He  will  consult  the  wishes  of  the  conscripts  in  assigning  them  to 
companies  or  regiments,  so  far  as  may  be  consistent  with  their  proper 
distribution,  and  will  not  separate  men  from  the  same  county,  district 
or  parish,  if  it  can  be  avoided.  The  same  rule  will  be  observed  by  the 
(•■)mmandants  of  corps  in  assigning  conscripts  to  companies. 

6.  Conscripts  for  cavalry  will  only  be  taken  from  those  who  furnirh 
their  own  horses.  No  conscripts  c.in  be  assigned  to  companies  mustered 
into  service  since  the  16th  of  April,  1862. 

7.  The  commandants  of  conscripts  are  specially  enjoined  to  pay  un- 
ceasing attentiou  to  the  health,  comfort,  and  instruction  of  the  eon- 
scripts  under  their  command,  and  to  bear  in  mind  that  the  efficiency  of 
the  army  and  the  safety  of  the  country  ^epend  in  a  great  measure  upon 
their  faithful  discharge  of  these  duties. 

in.  Enrolmknt  of  Conscripts. 

All  white  male  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages 
cf  eighteen  and  forty,  not  exempted  by  act  of  Congress,  or  not  already 
in  the  service,  will  be  enrolled.  Persons  liable  to  enrolment  may  be 
enrolled  wherever  they  may  be  found,  as  provided  by  the  act  No.  42, 
herewith  published. 

IV.    UNDOMlCILEn    FOREIC.VERS. 

1.  Foreigners  not  do^niciled  in  the  Confederate  States  are  not  liable 
'n  enrolment.  Domicil  in  the  Confederate  States  consists  fa  residence 
with  intention  permanently  to  remain  in  those  states,  and  to  abandon 
domicil  elsewhere.  Long  residence  of  itself  does  not  constitute  domi- 
cil. A  person  may  acquire  domicil  in  less  thau  one  year,  and  he  may 
no;  acquire  it  in  twenty  years  residence.  If  there  is  a  determination  to 
return  to  the  native  country  and  to  retain  the  domicil  there,  no  length 
of  residence  can  confer  domicil. 

The  principal  evidences  of  intention  to  remain  are  the  declarations  ol 
the  party,  the  exercise  of  rights  of  citizenship,  marriage,  and  the  ac 


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quisition  of  real  estate  ;  but  the  intention  may  be  gathefred  from  other 
facts. 

2.  The  enrolment  will  be  made  by  the  enrolling  officers  of  the  state, 
if  the  Governor  thereof  will  permit  them  to  act  under  the  orders  of  the 
commandant  of  conscripts,  and  application  will  be  made  by  the  said 
commandant  for  such  permission.  If  it  be  declined,  the  commandant 
will  report  the  fact  to  the  Adjutant  and  In.spector-General,  and  ask  for 
the  employment  of  Confederate  officers  for  the  purpose  of  making  en- 
rolments. If  the  Governor  consent,  but  the  enrolling  officers  of  the 
state  be  found  unable  or  unwilling  to  discharge  their  duty  efficiently, 
the  like  application  will  bo  made  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gen- 
eral; and,  in  such  event,  a  commissioned  officer  for  each  congressional 
district,  and  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  private  for  each  county, 
city,  town,  district,  or  parish  will  be  assigned  to  such  duty. 

In  making  such  assignment,  officers  and  men  disabled  by  wounds 
from  active  duty  in  the  field,  and  acquainted  in  the  localities  in  which 
they  are  required  to  serve,  will,  as  far  as  practicable,  be  selected.  The 
commissioned  officer  in  each  district  will  superintend  the  enrolments 
and  collection  of  conscripts  therein.  Non-commissioned  officers  and 
privates,  while  so  employed,  will  be  allowed  pay  as  extra-duty  men. 
The  enrolling  officers  of  the  states,  if  employed,  will  be  paid  the  com- 
pensation allowed  by  the  state  laws  for  similar  services. 

The  Commanding  Generals  of  armies  in  the  field  will  order  such  com- 
missioned officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  and  privates  as  they  think 
qualified  to  be  enrolling  Officers  or  drill  officers,  and  who  are  unfit  for 
active  service  in  the  field,  to  report  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  in 
their  respective  states,  who  will  order  such  of  them  to  duty  as  may  be 
required,  and  report  the  remainder  by  letter  to  the  Commanding  Gen- 
eral as  not  needed  for  such  service. 

3.  Enrolments  for  particular  regiments,  srjuadrons,  battalions,  and 
companies  in  service  on  the  16th  of  April,  1862,  may  be  made  by  offi- 
cers detailed  for  the  purpose  by  the  Commanding  General  of  a  depart.' 
ment  or  an  army  in  the  field ;  but  such  officers  must  report  to  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts  in  their  respective  states,  receive  instructions 
from  him,  and  assemble  their  conscripts  at  such  point  as  he  may  desig- 
nate. Conscripts  enrolled  without  reporting  to  such  commandant  will 
be  deemed  to  be  enrolled  for  general  service,  and  shall  at  any  time  be 
transferred,  on  their  own  application,  or  on  the  application  of  com- 
mandants of  corps  needing  conscripts^  to  such  corps. 

V.  Exemptions. 
The  Exemption  act  will  be  construed  prospectively,  and  does  not 
authorize  the  discharge  of  any  one  enrolled  or  ia  service  prior  to  the 
nth  day  of  October,  1862. 


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VI.   BoniLV    AND    Mr.STAL   Imirmivv. 

1.  Questions  of  bodily  and  mputal  incapacity  will  he  decided  by 
surgeons  employed  for  the  purpose,  by  virtue  of  the  act  of  Congre?? 
approved  on  the  11th  of  October,  ISrS. 

Three  surgeons  in  each  congressional  district  will  be  recommended 
by  the  commandants  of  conscripta  to  the  Adjutaat  and  Inspettior- 
(J-eneral  f*  era])loymcnt  under  the  foregoing  act;  aad  the  sai<l  com- 
mandants will  establish  in  each  county,  city,  parish,  or  district  a  place 
of  rendezvous  for  the  examination  of  conscripts  enrolled  therein. 

2.  The  three  surgeons  employed  in  each  congressional  district  will 
constitute  a  board  of  examination  for  the  district;  and  one  or  more  of 
them  may  act  at  any  place  of  rendezTous  therein.  They  shall  fix  day.=i 
for  the  examination  of  conscripts  in  each  county,  citj-,  parish,  or  dis- 
trict, and  give  at  least  ten  days  Dotice  thereof,  by  publication  in  one  or 
more  newspapers  circulating  in  the  congressional  district,  and  by  notice 
posted  at  the  principal  places*  of  public  resort. 

'3.  The  enrolling  officer  for  the  county,  city,  parish,  or  distFict  shall 
attend  at  such  examinations,  and  enroll  and  send  to  the  camp  O'f 
instruction  such  persons  as  arc  examined  and  found  by  the  surgeon  to 
be  incapable  of  bearing  arms.  The  standard  of  bodily  capacity  .shall 
be  that  establisheil  by  (.ieucral  Order,  No.  58,  modified  by  the  omission 
of  the  3d  paragraph,  which  authorized  the  enrolment  of  persons  not 
equal  to  all  military  duty.  No  person  will  be  enrolled  as  a  conscript 
who  is  not  capable  of  l)e;iring  arms. 

4.  Persons  deemed  incapable  of  bearing  arms  shall  be  reported  by 
the  examining  surgeon  to  the  board  of  examination,  who  shall  deter- 
mine the  questions  of  exemption,  and  grant  certificates  thereo'f.  The 
certificates  shall  specify-  whether  the  incapacity  is  temporary  or  perma- 
nent; and,  if  permanent,  the  party  shall  be  exempt  frotn  future  exami- 
nation, unless  specially  ordered  by  the  board.  So  soon  as  the  exan»iniDg 
board  shall  be  organized  in  any  congressional  district,  and  shall  enter 
upon  the  discharge  of  their  duties,  no  other  mode  of  examination  for 
persons  in  that  district  will  be  pursued,  aisd  the  decision  of  the  exam- 
uing  board  will  be  deemed  final. 

5.  The  fact  that  a  person  has  been  discharged  from  service  for  phys- 
ical disability  or  other  cause,  does  not  of  itself  exempt  from  enrolment 
as  a  conscript. 

6.  If  any  enrolled  person  is  unable  to  attend  at  the  rendezvous  on 
account  of  sickness,  he  will  send  to  the  examining  surgeon  a  certifi- 
cate specifying  the  cause  of  absence,  and  its  probable  duration,  from 
some  respectable  physician  resident  in  the  county,  city,  parish,  or 
district  in  which  the  rendezvous  is  situatetl.     The  examiuiug  surgeon 


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sball  send  the  certificate  to  the  cominaudant  of  the  nearest  camp  <if 
instruction  ;  and  if  the  person  mentioned  therein  shall  not  report  him- 
self for  examination  at  the  said  camp  within  a  reasonable  period,  or 
send  to  the  commandant  of  the  camp  a  renewal  of  the  certificate, 
showing  his  continued  disability; 'he  shall  b3  deemed  absent  without 
leave. 

7.  A  compensation  of  $i  per  diem,  while  actually  emploj'ed,  will  be 
allowed  to  each  of  the  examiniug  surgeons,  and  will  be  paid  on 
their  certified  account  by  the  quartermaster  of  the  nearest  camp  of 
instruction, 

VII.  Friends,  Dunkards,  Naxarenes,  and  Mennonites. 

All  x>«rsoHS  of  the  above  denominations,  in  regular  membership 
therein  on  the  11th  day  of  October,  1862,  shall  be  exempt  from  enrol- 
ment, on  furnishing  a  .substitute,  or  on  presenting  to  the  enrolling 
officer  a  receipt  from  a  bonded  quartermaster  for  the  tax  of  five  hun- 
dred dollars  imposed  by  act  of  Congress,  and  a,n  affidavit  by  the 
bishop,  presiding  elder,  or  other  officer  whose  duty  it  is  to  preserve 
the  records  of  membership  in  the  denomination  to  which  the  party 
belongs,  setting  forth  distinctly  the  fact  that  the  party  on  the  11th  day 
of  October,  1862,  was  in  regular  membership  with  such  denomination. 
The  affidavit  must  be  taken  and  certified  by  a  justice  of  the  peace,  or 
other  officer  appointed  by  the  law  of  his  state  to  administer  oaths: 
and  his  authority  to  administer  oaths  nmst  be  certified  by  the  clerk  of 
a  court  of  record,  under  the  seal  of  the  court. 

All  assistant  quartermasters  to  whom  the  said  tax  is  tendered  will 
receive  and  receipt  for  it,  and  pay  the  same  into  the  treasury  of  the 
Confederate  States  without  unreasonable  delay.  The  enrolling  officer 
will  receive  the  receipt  and  forward  it  to  the  commandant  of  con- 
scripts, by  whoiti  it  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Quartermaster-Genei'al, 
who  will  charge  the  assistant  quarteruiaster  with  the  amount  received 
by  him. 

VIII.  Provi.«ion  against  Extortion. 

1.  When  application  for  exemption  is  made  by  any  shoemaker,  tan- 
ner, blacksmith,  wagon-maker,  miller,  mill  engineer,  or  millwright,  not 
ia  the  employment  of  any  company  or  establishment,  but  working  for 
himself,  the  party  seeking  exemption  shall  state  in  writing,  under  oath, 
that  he  is  skilled  and  actually  employed  in  his  said  trade  ;  that  he  is 
habitually  engaged  in  working  for  the  public  ;  that  the  products  of  his 
labor,  while  exempt  from  military  service,  shall  not  be  sold,  exchanged, 
or  bartered  for  a  price  exceeding  the  cost  of  production  and  seventy- 
ive  per  cent,  profit  thereon;  and  that  he  will  not  by  any  arrangemeur, 


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.■'liif't,  or   contrivance,  evade    the    liiw,  or    receive    a   greater  price  or 
reward  than  it  allows. 

2.  Where  application  is  made  to  exwmpt  superintendents  and  opera- 
tives in  wool  and  cotton  factories  and  paper-mills,  and  superintendents 
and  managers  of  wool-carding  machines,  shoemakers,  tanners,  black- 
smiths, wagon-makers,  millei-s,  mill  engineers,  or  millwrights,  not 
working  for  themselves,  but  in  the  employment  of  some  company  or 
establishment,  the  president  or  some  director,  if  the  company  be  incor- 
porated, if  not;  the  proprietor  of  the  business,  or,  if  there  be  a  firm,  some 
partner  therein,  shall  make  oath  in  writing  that  the  said  superintendents, 
operatives,  managers,  or  mechanics  as  the  case  may  be,  are  skilled  and 
actually  employed  in  their  said  vocations;  that  they  are  habitually 
working  for  the  public;  that  they  are  absolutely  necessary  for  the  suc- 
cessful prosecution  of  the  business  of  the  concern  :  that  the  products 
thereof  shall  not  be  sold,  or  exchanged,  or  bartered,  during  the  said 
exemption,  for  a  price  exceeding  the  cost  of  production  and  seventy- 
five  per  cent,  profit  thereon  ;  that  no  shift,  contrivance,  or  arrangement 
shall  be  made  to  evade  the  law,  or  to  secure  a  larger  return  or  profit 
than  it  allows ;  and  that  exemption  is  not  sought  for  a  larger  number 
of  parsons  than  is  absolutely  uecessary  for  the  successful  prosecutioji 
of  the  business  of  the  concern. 

3.  The  foregoing  affidavits  shall  be  made  before  some  justice  of  the 
l)eace,  or  other  person  authorized  by  law  to  administer  oaths,  and  if 
such  justice  or  other  person  be  not  personally  known  to  the  enrolling 
officer  to  be  what  he  purports  to  be,  his  official  character  and  his  right 
to  administer  osiths  must  be  certified  l)y  the  clerk  of  some  court  of 
record,  under  the  seal  of  his  court. 

The  affidavits  shall  be  returned  to  the  comuLindant  of  conscripts, 
:ind  exemptions  shall  be  granted  by  the  enrolling  officer.  If,  however^ 
he  suspect  fal.se  swearing  or  mistake,  he  shall  refuse  the  exemption,  and 
refer  tho  case,  after  first  enrolling  the  names  of  the  parties  in  question, 
to  the  commandant  of  conscript.*,  who  shall  dispose  of  it.  If  at  any 
time  the  enrolling  officer  have  cause  to  suspect  false  swearing  or  mis- 
take in  the  foregoing  affidavits,  he  shall  report  the  fact  to  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts,  and  if  the  said  commandant  be  satisfied  after 
due  investigation  that  a  larger  number  of  persons  is  designedly  em- 
ployed than  is  necessary,  or  that  a  larger  profit  th.an  the  law  allows  is 
received  either  directly  or  indirectly, -he  shall  order  the  enrolment  of 
the  parties  exempted  upon  the  said  affidavits. 

IX.  Details. 

Citizen  employees  and  mechanics  who  arc  employed  in  establishmeiit.s 
of  the  government,  or  by  contractors  with  the  government  in  the  manu- 


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facture  of  arms,  ordnance,  ordnance  stores,  and  other  mnnitions  of  war, 
saddles,  harness,  and  army  supplies,  will  be  enrolled  and  returned  to 
their  work:  ])rovided  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  bureau,  or  some 
ordnance  officer  authorized  by  him  for  the  purpose,  shall  certify  thafc 
the  number  of  operatives  required  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  such 
establishment,  or  by  such  contractor  for  government  work,  is  reason- 
able, and  not  excessive.  Such  certificate  will  be  presented  to  the 
enrolling  officer,  who  will  thereupon  make  the  detail  of  the  men  speci- 
fied for  a  period  not  exceeding  sixty  days,  and  return  the  certificate  to 
the  commandant  of  conscripts.  At  the  expiration  of  such  detail,  the 
officer  in  charge  of  the  government  shop,  or  the  contractor  in  whose 
employment  said  conscripts  are,  shall  cause  said  certificates  to  be  re- 
newed, or  return  the  conscripts  to  the  nearest  camp  of  instruction.  If 
the  certificate  be  not  renewed,  or  the  conscripts  be  not  returned,  no 
other  detail  shall  be  granted  to  such  establishment  or  contractor.  In 
all  cases  of  details  for  contractors,  the  party  requesting  the  detail  shall 
make  affidavit  that  the  persons  so  detailed  will  not  be  employed  on  any 
other  than  government  work,  which  affidavit  shall  be  returned  to  the 
commandant  of  conscripts ;  and  if  it  be  found  that  at  any  time  such 
detailed  oonsevipts  are  employed  by  said  contractors  upon  work  for 
private  individuals,  the  detail  shall  be  cancelled  by  the  commandant  of 
conscripts. 

Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  »0,  current  series,  is  hereby  re- 
voked. 

X.    To    WHOM    AppLICATK>.NS    for    EXEMPTIO'N    MUST    BE    ADDRESSED. 

Applications  for  exemption  must,  in  all  cases,  be  made  to  the  enroll- 
ing officer,  from  whose  deciEion  an  appeal  may  be  taken  to  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts.  "The  department  will  not  consider  the  appli- 
cation until  it  has  been  referred  by  the  latter  ofRcer. 

XI.    SUBSTITOTES. 

1.  When  a  person  claims  exemption  on  the  ground  that  he  has  put  a 
substitute  in  service,  he  must  exhibit  to  the  enrolling  officer  a  discharge 
from  some  company,  signed  by  the  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment 
or  command  to  which  the  said  company  belongs,  or  then  belonged  (see 
General  Order,  No.  26),  or  an  exemption  signed  by  the  commandant  of 
conscripts.  And  if  the  said  discharge  or  exemption  do  not  show  that 
it  was  granted  in  consideration  of  a  substitute  having  been  furnished, 
such  fact  must  be  certified  in  writing  by  the  commanding  officer  of  the 
regiment  or  command  to  which  the  company  belongs,  or  by  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts,  as  the  case  may  be. 


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But  in  all  case?  ariMiig  within  thirty  days  Crom  the  date  of  this  order, 
Ihe  enrolling  officer  may  grant  the  exemption  upon  salisfactorv  proof 
that  the  party  furni.she<I  a  substitute,  who  was  actually  received  into 
the  service  of  the  ConfedL-rate  States  for  three  years  or  the  war,  and  the 
nibstitutc  is  not  liable  to  military  service.  Such  exemption  may  at 
any  time  be  cancelled,  if  fraud  or  mistake  be  discovered. 

2.  Paragraph  IT,  0.>ncrai  Order.  No.  29.  eurrenl  series,  is  hereby 
revoked.  No  person  under  cighlcen  years  of  age,  or  not  domiciled  in 
fho  Confederate  States,  or  not  of  good  moral  character,  or  who  is  liable 
under  the  existing  order  to  enr..lm:nt  as  a  conscript,  shall  be  received 
a"  a  substitute. 

And  in  .all  cases  in  which  a  .sub.stitutc  becomes  subject  to  tuilitarjr 
i-ervice,  the  cvemption  of  tLe  principal,  by  reason  of  the  substitution 
thall  expire.  ^  ' 

Any  person  subject  to  enrolment,  wh,.  desires  to  furnish  a  substitute, 
may,  at  any  time  before  enrolment,  or  before  he  is  aseigocd  to  a  com- 
pany and  sent  from  the  camp  of  instruction,  present  a  substitute  at 
Mich  camp.  And  if  the  substitute  be  capable  of  bearing  arms,  and  be 
of  good  moral  character,  and  not  within  the  prohibited  classes,  be 
shall  bo  received,  and  the  principal  shall  be  exempt  from  military 
service. 

Xir.    Voj.r.NTEIMtiSG. 

All  persons  liable  to  conscription  may.  before  enrolu, en t.  volunteer 
•  n  companies  in  service  on  the  16th  April,  lS(i2.  But  after  enrolment 
they  can  not  volunteer,  nor  ca«  they  at  any  time  volunteer  in  con>paniec 
received  into  service  since  the  10th  of  April,  1^62. 

Xril.    MiSCEI.LAN-EOtS. 

1.  All  impressments  of  men  by  regimental,  biitt^lion,  or  company 
oommanders,  under  any  pretence  whatever,  are  prohibited,  if  being  the 
design  of  the  department  to  supj^ly  the  army  exclusively  throucrh  the 
<ifficers  appointed  by  this  act.  *  " 

2.  All  the  laws  and  regulations  applicable  to  deserters  shall  be  ap- 
plied to  such  conscripts  as  fail  to  repair  to  the  place  of  rendezvous  for 
enrolment,  or  who  shall  desert  after  enrolment. 

3    All  the  agencies  employed  for  the  apprehension  and  confinement 
"t  deserters,  and  their  transportation  to  the  commands  of  their  respec 
tu-ecomman.lers,  shall  be  applicable  to  persons  liable  to  duty  a.  con 
scripts  who  shall  fail   to   repair  to  the  place  of  rendezvous  after  tLc 
publication  of  the  call. 

By  order. 

S,  COOPEIl, 
Adjittatit  and  Inspitrtor-CvneraL 


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r.ENERAL  ORDERS."!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  83.  j  Richmond,  Ifnvembe.r  8,  1862. 

I.  .A  Court  of  Inquiry  was  convened  at  Adams'  Run,  S.  C,  August 
25,  1S62,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  137,  from  the  Head-quarters 
of  the  Department  of  South  Carolina  and  Georgia.,  of  August  16,  1862, 
issued  by  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  under  authority  of  the  act 
uf  Congress  entitled  "An  act  to  punish  drunkenness  in  the  army," 
approved  April  21,  1862,  when  the  following  proceedings  were  had 
upon  charges  and  specifications  against  Colonel  John  Dunovant,  1st 
regiment  South  Carolina  volunteers: 

Charge. 
Driinlcenness  on  duly. 

Specification  1st In  this;  '-That  he,  Colonel  John  Dunovant,  of  the  1st  regiment 

S.  C.  regulars,  having  been  detailed  by  his  Commanding  General,  X.  G. 
Evans,  P.  A.  C.  S.,to  lead  the  advance,  with  liis  battalion,  against  the  enemy, 
known  to  be  at  Legareville,  did  become  so  drnnk  as  to  be  entirely  unable  to 
execute  said  order."  This  in  front  of  the  troops  of  the  brigade,  on  John's 
island,  S.  C,  on  or  about  the  9th  June,  1862. 

Specification  '2d In  this:  '•  That  he.  the  said  Colonel  John  Dunova.nt.  having  re- 
ceived an  order  from  his  Commanding  General,  Brigadier-General  N.  G. 
Evans,  in  words  and  fignres  following,  viz : 

"•On  intimation  given  by  the  Commanding  General,  Colonel  i>Mnova«( 
will  storm  the  bridge  at  Bcezan's,  and.  in  co-oi)eration  with  Colonel  Means, 
capture  the  advance  guard  of  the  enemy,  said  to  be  at  Bcezan's  Iiouse. 
Should  the  enemy  advance.  Colonel  Dunovant  v^ill  attack  him  (his  right 
being  supported  by  Colonels  Slaughter  and  Means),  and  drive  the  enemy 
to  his  gun-boats.' 

"  Which  order  having  been  received  by  Colonel  Dunovant.  and  having  been 
ordered  by  his  Commanding  General  to  have  the  guns  of  his  battalion  loaded 
ready  to  advance,  was  so  drunk  as  to  be  unable  to  execute  said  order.-'  This 
on  John's  island,  S.  C,  on  or  about  the  night  of  the  9th  June,  1862. 

Specification  Zd In  this;  "That  he.  the  said  ColonA  John  Dunovant,  lii  regi- 
ment S.  C.  regulars,  having  ai  rived  with  his  battalion  at  a  point  near  which 
the  enemy  were  supposed  to  be,  and  being  ordered  by  his  Commanding  Gen- 
eral to  have  his  guns  loaded  and  be  ready  to  advance,  did  become  so  drunk  as 
to  be  unable  to  execute  the  order;  and  did  thus  expose  himself  to  theofhcers 
and  soldiers  of  his  command,  lying  drunk  by  the  roadside."  This  on  John's 
island,  on  or  about  the  night  of  the  9th  of  June,  1862. 

II.. The  court,  after  full  deliberation  ou  the  testimony  in  the  case, 
found  the  accused  "guilty  of  the  charge;"  ;iud  submitted  their  proceed- 
ings to  the  Secretary  of  War,  by  whom  they  have  been  laid  before  the 
President,  whose  orders  thereupon  are  as  follows  : 

**  The  offence  is  of  too  grave  a  character  to  be  overlooked  in  an  officer 


Ill 

of  such  high  rank,  and  is  aggravated  bj'  the  circumstances  under  which 
it  was  committed.     Col.  Dunovant  will  be  dismissed  from  the  scr-vice." 
Colonel  John  Dunovant,  1st  regiment  of  South  Carolina  infantry, 
therefore  ceases  to  be  an  officer  of  the  army  from  this  date. 

III.. The  above  named  Court  of  Inquiry,  whereof  Brigadier-General 
■J.  Hagood,  p.  a.  C.  S.,  Is  President,  is  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPEK, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gencrnf. 


tlENERAL  ORDERS,^  Aiuutast  a.nd  Ixspector-Gbnerai/s  Offick, 

No.  S4.  J  Richmond,  November  10,  1862. 

I.. The  following  orders  are  published  for  the  information  and  guid- 
ance of  the  army: 

II..AVhcreas    reliable   information   has  been   rcoeivcil   that  Colonel 

Lowe,  and  Colonel  A.  C.  Harding,  8th  Illinois  regiment,  U.  S. 

army,  have  been  engaged  in  a  scries  of  wanton  cruelties  and  depreda- 
tions in  Clarksville,  Tennessee,  and  the  surrounding  counties,  which  in 
many  instances  have  resulted  in  the  arrest,  incarceration,  and  mar- 
treatment  of  non-combatants  and  peaceful  citizens  of  the  Confederate 
States,  and  in  others  in  the  unjustifiable  dsstruction  of  private  prop- 
erty, without  compensation,  and  contrary  to  the  rules  and  practice  of 
civilized  warfare:  Therefore,  it  is  ordered  that  the  aforesaid  Colonel 
— —  Lowe,  and  Colonel  A.  C.  Harding,  8th  Illinois  volunteers,  U.  S. 
A.,  be  and  thej'  are  hereby  declared  no  longer  entitled  to  be  regarded 
as  soldiers,  aijd  that  the,y  have  forfeited  all  claim  to  the  benefits  of  the 
cartel  existing  between  the  Governments  of  the  Confederate  States  and 
the  United  States  for  the  exchange  of  prisoners  of  war;  and,  further, 
that  in  the  event  of  their  capture  they  shall  be  kept  in  close  confine- 
ment and  treated  as  felons  until  otherwise  ordered  by  the  President  of 
the  Confederate  Stales. 

III.. And  whereas  other  otivcers  of  the  United  States  army,  yet  un- 
known to  the  Confederate  government,  are  represented  and  believed  to 
have  participated  in  the  wrongs  and  outrages  before  referred  to:  There- 
fore, it  is  also  ordered,  that  the  provisions  of  the  first  paragraph  of 
this  order  shall  be  applicable  to  any  other  officers  of  the  Federal 
army  in  the  State  of  Tennessee,  upon  proof  of  their  guilt  deemed  sat- 
isfactory by  the  commanding  officer  of  tho  department  in  which  they 
may  be  captured  and  held. 


1!2 

IV.  .And  whereas  Major-Geueral  John  Pope  has  been  removed  from 
the  Federal  army  operating  in  Virginia,  and  the  obnoxious  order,  No. 
11,  of  July  23,  1862,  issued  by  him,  has  been  stated  by  the  United 
,Stat€S  authorities  to  be  inoperative  and  without  cficct:  Therefore,  it  is 
ordered,  that  so  much  of  Greneral  Orders,  No.  54,  of  August  1,  1862, 
from  the  Adjutant  and  iBspector-General's  office,  Richmond,  as  applies 
to  the  said  Major-Gencral  John  Pope,  and  th«  officers  serving  under 
Lim  in  Virgiiiia,  fee  y,nd  is  herebj'  rescinded. 

By  order. 

5.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Iiifspector-Gencral. 


GENERAL  OKBEKS.lj  Adjutant  and  Inspeceoe-General's  Office, 

No.  85.  j  KicnMOND,  NoKcmher  11,  1862. 

T. -At  a  (Jeneral  Court  Martial,  held  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  May  2, 
1862,  by  vii'tue  of  General  Orders,  No.  36,  from  Head-quarters  of  the 
Department  of  South  Cai'oliua  and  Georgia,  the  followiiag-named  par- 
ties were  arraigned  aad  t-ried: 

1.-.  Private  Juncph  i\lt:Intyre.,  Company  D,  1st  Georgia  volunteers: 

Chauge Violation  ofHhe  9th  Article  of  War,  iu  resistiiag  his  suijerior  offioi-rs 

while  in  the  diaaUarge  of  their  duty,  and  in  the  use  of  violent  and  improptr 
language  and  gestures  toward  said  oUKcere. 

Vrrdict Guilty. 

Sentence Death. 

2-,  Private  Thoman  G'dlvspic^  of  the  ChathaiM  artilkry,  1st  Georgia 
brigade  : 

Charge Violition  uf  the  20th  Articlt^  of  War,  in  having  deserted  from  his  com- 
pany, and  also  in  being  absent  therefrom  v,  itlioist  I'-ave., 

Verdict Guilty, 

Sentence Death. 

3,  .Private  .l/(e7i«e^  ^«,(/e)-<y,  of  the  Cliatham  artillery,  1st  Georgia 
brigade : 

CuAnoE  1 ViulatioB  of  the  2oth  Ai'ticle  of  War,  in  liaviiig  deserted  from  bi^ 

company. 

Chargi;  - Violation  of  the  22d  Article  of  War,  in  having  deserted  from  his  com- 
pany and  euliHted  in  another. 

Verdict Guilty. 

S'.nlcnce Dcatli. 


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4.  Private  Willlnm  M.  BcasUy,  Company  p,  1st,  Georgia  volun- 
teers : 

CiiAUGE DeBortion. 

Verdict Guilty. 

Sentence Death. 

5.  Private  /'.  V.  R.  J/occ,  of  the  Chatham  light  horse,  Georgia 
volunt-ecrs  : 

C'HARGK Desertion. 

iientence Dwitli. 

II.. The  proceeding!"  in  the  foregoing  cases  having  been  submitted 
bj'  the  Commanding  General  of  the  Department  of  South  Carolina, 
Georgia,  aud  Florida  for  the  consideration  of  the  Pr<'!<ident,  under  the 
Article  of  War  for  pardon  or  mitigation,  he  has  been  ple.ased  to  extend 
to  the  several  parties  the  E.xecutive  clemency;  and  therefore  directs, 
in  mitigation  of  the  punisliment  adjudged  by  the  court,  that  the  sen- 
tence in  each  of  the  casot;  bo  changed  to  hard  labor,  with  ball  and 
chain  attached  to  the  leg,  for  the  period  of  twelve  months;  a  forfeiture 
of  monthly  pay  for  the  'same  period  of  time;  and  confinement  in  the 
guard-house  whenever  not  employed  at  hard  labor.  Thi.s  order  will  be 
carried  into  effect  under  the  direction  of  the  Comm8.nding  General  of 
the  department. 

III.. The  General  Court  Martial  by  which  the  above-named  cases 
were  tried  is  hereb_y  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjninul  and  Innjyector-deneral. 


GENERAL  ORDEllS.  |  Adjutant  and  Insi'kctor-Oeneral's  Office, 

No.  8C.  )  KiCHMOND,  Xovember  V2,  1862. 

I.. The  following  notice  of  the  officers  and  men  who  have  been  duly 
exchanged  as  prisoners  of  wsir  is  published  for  the  information  of  all 
concerned  : 

EXCHANGE  NOTICE,  NO.  3. 

KiCBMOND,  Vn.,  ynvember  11,  1862. 

1.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  captured  find  paroled  in  Vir- 
ginia or  Maryland  at  auj-  time  from  the  beginning  of  hofitilities  to  the  Ist  of 
November,  1862,  have  been  duly  exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared. 

2.  All  Confederate  ofBcers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at  Aikin's  landing. 

10 


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ou  Jamea  rlvor,  at  iiny  time  previous  to  the  11th  of  November.  1862,  have  been 
dtily  exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared. 

3.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at  Vicksburg.  Mis- 
sissippi, previous  to  the  1st  of  November,  1S62,  and  including  said  date,  have  been 
duly  exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared. 

(Signed)  ROBERT  OULD. 

Agent  for  Exchange, 

II.  .All  ofBcers  and  men  who  have  been  duly  exchanged  as  prisoners 
of  war,  will,  without,  delay,  join  tlicir  respective  regiment.'!  and  corpn. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutont  mid  liii>p€r:toi--Gcney'il. 


GENEK.^L  ORDERS."*  Adjciasi  and  Inspixtor-Gk.neral's  Orncj;, 

Xo.  87.  J  Richmond,  November  15, 1S62. 

At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1862,  pursuant  to  Special  Orders,  No.  118,  dated  July  28, 
1862,  from  the  Head-quarters  of  tLe  Dopartmenr  of  South  Carolina 
and  Georgia,  waw  arraigned  and  tried  First  Lieutenant  Aluxandor 
Doyle,  Company  A,  47th  Georgia  volunteers,  on  the  following  ehargeu 
and  specifications: 

Charoe  1 Violation  of  the  36th  Article  of  War. 

Spccificalinii Misapplication  and   embezzlement  of  raticus   belonsinK  t'-"'   his 

company. 

Charge  2 Violation  of  the  9th  Article  of  War. 

iSpociJlcation Di.'iobedieiice  of  the  orders  of  his  superior  officer. 

Findings  and  Sentence  op  tan  CoimT. 

The  court  fiuds  the  accused,  First  Lieutenant  Alexander  Dnylc.,  Company  A, 
47th  Georgia  Tolunteers,  lis  follows  : 

Of  the  Specification,  1st  Char.je,  Guilty.     ■ 

or  the  l«t  Charge,  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge,  Gnilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,  Guilty. 

And  the  court  does,  therefore,  sentence  tlie  said  Fli-st  Lieutenant  Alexander 
Doyle,  Company  A,  47th  Georgia  volunteers,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  '•  to  be  cashiered." 

II.  .The  proceeding.s  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  submitted  to 
the  President,  the  following  is  his  decision  thereon  : 

*  *  *  The  accused  was  not  found  guilty  of  violating  the  .36th 
Article  of  War.  The  finding  of  the  court  on  the  charge  of  violating 
the  9th  Article  of  War  is  scarcely  suBtained.by  the  evidence,  itappear- 


Il.-i 

ing  tu   have   been   rather  a»  inquiry   aud   auswex  thaa  au  order  and 
refusal  to  obey.     Sentence  remitted- 

III.. First  Lieutenant  Alej-ntidrr  Doylt,  CompAnj  A,  47th  Geori^ia 
volunteers,  will  ther<>fore  be  rcU•a.^cd  from  nrro.st,  nnd  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

B.   COOPEl^ 
Adjulnnt  onrt  Jn'p'-^f'jr-GcncrnJ. 


UKNERAL  ORDKRS, >  Awrr^NT  aMi  IxsHKCTOR-OByaiALH  OvHtt. 

V 
No.  8.S.  J  IlicHMCisn.  yovtmbfr  17,  186:1, 

I.. At  a  Gecerai  Court  Martini,  convened  at  Charleston.  S.  C, 
September  10,  1862,  by  virtne  of  Special  Orders,  No.  H7,  from  the 
HeHd-qnnrierp  of  the  Department  of  South  Carolina  ;i.nd  Georgia,  was 
arraigned  and  tried  First  Lieutenant  W.  E.  Knrin.  S.  C.  artillery. 
P.  A.  C.  S..  on  the  followinfc  charge  and  .epecification  ,• 

Chame. 
Jnt'ixication  on  diit>/. 

Spceijftatinn In  tliiR:   •'That  he.  the  s.aid  First  T,imton;int   ^y.  E,  Srwhi. 'fi.  C. 

iirtillory,  l>.  A.  C.  S.,  at  Ciistlo  Pinckney,  S.  C,  on  or  iilxmt  the  l;!th  diiy  of 
June.  1862.  did,  when  on  duty  a.s  officer  of  the  day,  become  groBKly  iutoxi- 
c«ted," 

Kl.NDINOS    AND   Sf.NTFNCE   OP   TIIK   COVRT. 

The  court,  having  miXtiirely  weijrhed  and  considi-rnd  the  evidence  In  support  of 
the  charjreB  aijainst  the  prisoner.  First  Lieutenant  W.  £.  Erwin  S.  C.  artillery,  hla 
dcfencd.  and  the  evidence  In  support  of  it.  ik  of  opinion  that  the  said  First  Lieu- 
tenant W.  E.  Erwin.  rt,  C,  artillery,  is 

Of  the  Specific.'xtion  of  thn  Char{re.^  Guilty,  with  the  oxooptlon  of  the  word 
'grossly:' 

Of  the  Charge   Guilty. 

And  the  court  does,  thprefore,  sentence  thn  said  First  Llonten-int  IT.  K.  Ertcm, 
S.  C.  artillery.  ••  to  be  cashiered.'' 

II.. The  proeeedinfTs  in  the  fore^oinp  case  havinp  been  snbmittcd 
to  the  .Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him  laid  before  the  President  for  hifl 
decision,  the  following  are  his  order.s  thereon  : 

In  aceorilanee  with  the  unanimous  recommendation  of  the  eonrt,  and 
*<»pecially  for  the  reason  assigned,  the  facta  developed  by  the  evidenon 
adduced,  the  sentence  is  remitted. 

III.  .First  Lieutenant  Tl'.  /'.  Encin,  S.  C.  artillery,  will  therefore  be 
released  from  arrest,  an(\  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

d.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inepeetor- General . 


\Hi 


GKNKRAL  OKDKKS, )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

Xo.  89.  )  KicuMOND,  iVocemfcer  18,  1862. 

I.  <Tho  following  act  of  Congress  is  ijublished  for  the  infurmation  of 
all  coucci'ned,  and  will  be  observed  by  all  enrolling!;  otlicers ; 

[No.  29.] 
,4.(1  act  topeniiit  £n/!>)tnients  in  the  \avif  and  Murine  Corps. 

Tilt  Congress  of  the  Confedefate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That,  from  and  after 
tho  passage  of  this  act,  any  person  subject  to  enrolment  for  military  service, 
under  the  acts  of  Congress  providing  for  tho  public  defence,  sliall  be  permitted  to 
enlist  in  tlie  marine  corps  at  any  time  prior  to  being  mii.stered  into  the  army  of  the 
Confederate  States:  provided,  that  the  number  of  men  so  enlisted  does  not  increase 
tlie  marine  corjis  beyond  the  strength  authorized  by  hiw. 

Sec.  2.  That  if  any  person  who  lias  been  or  is  about  to  bo  enrolled  for  service  in 
the  army  shall,  at  any  time  before  being  assigned  to  any  companj',  declare  to  the 
enrolling  or  commanding  ollicer  that  he  prefers  being  enrolled  for  service  in  tho 
navy  or  marine  corps,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  tlie  said  officer  to  enroll  such  person  for 
tho  service  he  may  prefer,  and  to  transmit  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  a  list  of 
the  persons  so  enrolled. 

Sec.  '-i.  Tliat  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act  the  pay  of  sailors  and  nfarines 
shall  be  increased  foiir  dollars  jier  month.    [Approved  October  2,  1862.) 

II.  .Transfers  from  the  military  to  the  naval  service  will  be  effected 
in  the  presence  of  an  enrolling  ollicer,  or  an  officer  of  the  navy,  in  order 
that  when  the  soldier  is  in  due  form  discharged  from  tho  army,  he  shall 
be  at  once  enrolled  and  received  into  the  navy. 

111.. The  following  form  will  be  used  in  all  cases  of  discharge,  to  be 
signed  as  required  by  the  11th  Article  of  War.  Orders  for  discharge, 
emanating  from  this  office  will  V)e  considered  simply  the  authority 
whereon  to  grant  the  discharge,  and  not  the  discharge  itself: 

SOLUIKR'S  BISCIIAKGK, 

X  O     A  I,  L     Vr  H  0  M     I  T   »l  A  y     C  O  N  C  £  II  .s . 

Know  yk;  That  — ■ a '-^  of  Captain Company,  -■ Kegiment 

of .who  was  enlisted  the day  of "  one  tliousand  eight  Imndred  and 

to  serve -.  is  hereby  honorably  discharged  from  the  army  of  the  Confederate 

States. 

Said was  born  in in  the  St  ite  of ,  i» years  of  age, 

feet inches  high, conipIe.xion, eyes, hair,  and  by  occupation, 

when  onlistid.  a . 

Given  at this day  of -.  ISO-. 

By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adfiiliiiit  nnd  [it^pc-ior-Gfii/'rnl. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  Adjutam  and  T>kp£ctor-Ge!»brai,"s  Orrics. 

No.  90.  )  Richmond.  Xowrnhfr  \9, 1862. 

I.  .Kclore  going  into  iiction,  the  chief  of  artillery  of  each  armj'  will 
niiikc  such  dispo.sition  of  the  teams  attached  to  the  battery  wagons  and 
travelling  forges  as  will  render  tbeni  most  av.iilablc  for  the  purpose  of 
securing  artillerj-  captured  on  the  battle-field. 

II.  .Medical  directors  and  inspectors  will  forward  to  the  office  of 
the  Surgeon-General  copies  of  all  circulars,  and  of  all  printed  orders 
or  instruction,'*,  and  of  all  written  orders  of  importance  issued  by  them. 

III.. Details  from  corps  in  the  field  will  only  be  granted  for  govern- 
ment work,  and,  in  eases  of  urgent  necessity,  for  work  under  contract. 
In  the  case  of  details  for  contract  work,  the  consent  of  the  men  must 
bo  obtained,  aud  the  order  detailing  them  will  direct  that  their  pay 
and  allowances  shall  cea.se  during  the  detail,  and  tbat  in  lieu  thereof 
the  contractors  shall  pay  them  full  wages. 

IV.  .Agreeably  to  act  of  Congress,  approved  October  '.),  18(>2,  every 
man  detailed  as  a  shoemaker  will  be  entitled  to  receive,  in  addition 
to  his  extra-duty  pay,  tbirty-tivc  cents  for  each  pair  of  shoes  made  by 
bim. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutnnt  and  limpcctor-deuri-nL 


GENERAL  ORDERS. ~|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gkxeral's  Office, 

No.  91.  j  Richmond,  3oi'em6«r  20.  1862. 

The  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  charged  with  paying 
the  troops  are  hereby  prohibited  from  making  paj-ineut  to  auy  gen- 
eral staff  ollicer  of  the  Provisional  army  who  does  not  o.xhibit  th(! 
evidence  of  assignment  to  the  appropriate  command  under  which  he 
claims  payment,  agreeably  to  paragraph  I.  of  (General  Orders.  No.  48, 
current  .series.  A  departure  from  this  order  will  render  the  paying 
officer  liable  to  stoppage  to  the  amount  of  such  payment,  should  it 
bo  found  in  the  tiettlcmont  of  his  account  at  the  treasury  that  he 
has  disregarded  this  regulation.  The  large  number  of  general  staff 
officers  of  the  Provisional  army  who  are  without  assignment  to 
appropriate  commands,  including  those  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspect- 
or-General's   department.    Quartermaster's    department,    Commissary 


IIH 

department,  and  other  departments  of  the  general  staff,  render?  it  nec- 
essary to  publish  this  order,  and  to  append  to  it  the  subjoined  para- 
graph of  General  Orders,  2^0.  48,  above  referred  to,  to  wit: 

Tlie  appointnienta  of  general  officers  and  officers  of  the  general  staflf  in  the 
Provisional  army  being  made  under  upecial  anthority,  and  for  specific  objecta, 
terminate  with  their  ooramands,  except  iu  caseK  of  assignment  to  other  appropri- 
ate dutios. 

This  order  i.s  not  designed  to  affect  tho«e  general  stafl"  officers  who  are 
teniporaril}'  absent  on  leave,  or  sick,  while  under  proper  assignment  to 
their  appropriate  c-ommands. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Jntpector-Geiiei-nl. 


GENERAL  OKDEKS.  1  Apji'tant  and  1nspectoi!.-Gk.verai,'s  OrncR, 

No.  92.  \  KicuMOND.  Xnvrmbfr  21,  18R^.  ■ 

The  .second  clause  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  ^"o.  29,  current 
series,  is  hereby  amended  to  read  m  follows: 

^  *  *r  iS  *  a  -:•!  *  *  * 

"d.  If  the  substitute  be  of  good  moral  character,  not  within  the  pro- 
hibited cla.sses,  and,  on  examination  by  a  surgeon  or  assistant  surgooii 
of  the  army,  be  pronounced  capable  of  bearing  arms,  he  may,  upon 
the  written  consent  of  the  company  and  regimental  or  battalion  com- 
mander, provided  the  substitution  run  be  etfeeted  without  manifest 
injury  to  the  public  service,  be  enrolled  and  mustered  into  the  com- 
pany for  three  years,  unless  the  war  sooner  terminates;  and  the  non- 
commissioned oificer  or  soldier  procuring  him  shall  thereupon  be  dis- 
charged, but  shall  not  be  entitled  to  transportation  at  the  expense  of 

the  government, 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


OKNERAIv  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  A.\r>  Isspector-Gknkiial's  OrncE, 

No.  93.  j  Richmond,  November  22,  1862. 

L.The   following  acts  of  Congress,  having  been  approved   by  the 
President,  are  published  for  the  information  of  the  army: 

No.  2.— An  ACT  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  provide  for  the  Public  Defence. 

The  Congrees  of  the  Confederate  Stateh  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
sixth  section  of  the  act  to  proride  for  the  public  defence,  approved  on 


110 

the  6th  of  Mnrch,  1S61,  be  amendetl  by  adding  iift.-r  the  words  "bri- 
gades into  divisions,'  tlie  words  ''and  divisions  into  army  corps,"  and 
such  army  corps  shall  be  commanded  by  a  Lieutcnant-General,  to  be 
appointed  by  the  President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
Senate,  who  shall  receive  the  pay  of  a  Brigadicr-Gcncral.  [Approved 
September  18.  1862.] 

No.  3.— All  A(.T  toiiuthorize  the  appointment  of  additional  OflRcors  of  Artillery 
fur  Ordnance  rntics. 

The  ColtijresH  of  the  Coiif\d':ratf  States  of  Amcrii-a  do  euact.  That  the 
President,  bj-  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  may 
appoint  seventy  officers  of  artillery  in  the  Provisional  array,  for  the 
performance  of  ordnance  duties,  in  addition  to  those  authorized  by  the 
act  entitled  ''An  act  io  authorize  the  appointment  of  oflictrs  of  artillery 
in  the  Provisional  army,"  approved  April  21,  1SI?2,  and  that  from  thr 
whole  number  of  artillery  oflicers  appointed  to  discharge  ordnance 
duties  there  .shall  be  one  with  the  rank  of  lieutenaat-coloncl  foi*  each 
command  composed  of  more  than  one  army  corp.-i,  one  with  the  rank  of 
major  for  each  army  corps  •composed  of  more  than  one  division,  and 
the  residue  with  the  rank  of  captain,  and  of  first  and  second  lieutenant, 
in  such  proportion  as  the  President  shall  prescribe.  [Approved  Sep- 
tember 16,  1862.] 

,      Nc.  4. — .\ii  ACT  in  relation  to  tli«  Transfer  of  Troops. 

7'At'  Cotiijrfgit  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  transfer  any  private  or 
non-c'immissioned  officer,  who  maj'  be  in  a  regiment  from  a  state  of 
this  Confedoracy  other  than  hi.s  own.  to  a  regiment  from  his  own  state, 
whenever  sucli  private  or  non-commissioned  officer  may  apj^ly  for  such 
transfer,  and  whenever  such  transfer  can  be  made  without  injury  to 
the  public  service;  and  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  make  regulations  to 
facilitate  such  transfer:  pron'ded,  that  this  act  shall  not  apply  to  any 
one  who  has  enlisted  as  a  substitute.     [Approved  September  23.  1S62.] 

No.  5. — An  ACT  to  renulatc-  tUc  rank  of  Officers  of  tho  Provislnnal  Corps  of 
EnglneorH. 

TTic  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
oflicers  of  the  Engineer  corps  of  the  Provisional  army  may  h.-vvc  rank 
conferred  on  them  during  the  war,  equal  to  that  authorized  by  law  for 
the  Engineer  corps  of  the  Confederate  States  army:  provided,  that  the 
number  of  officers  in  each  grade  be  limited  to  one  colonel,  three  lieu- 
tenant-colonels, six  majors,  fifty  captains,  thirty  first  lieutenants,  and 
twenty  second  lieutenants.     [Approved  September  23,  1862.] 


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No.  6. — An  ACT  to  increase  the  Signal  Corps. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  may  ap- 
point one  major,  ten  first,  and  ten  second  lieutenants  in  the  signal  corps, 
and  that  the  Secretary  of  War  may  appoint  twenty  additional  sergeants 
in  the  signal  corps.     [Approved  September  27,  1862.]        » 

No.  7. — Au  ACT  to  amend  an  act  entitled  '-An  act  to  provide  further  for  the  Public 
.Defence,"  approved  April  16.  1862. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  call  out  and  place  in  the 
militarj'  service  of  the  Confederate  States  for  three  years,  unless  the 
war  should  have  been  sooner  ended,  all  white  men  who  are  residents  of 
the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of  thirty-five  and  forty-five 
years,  at  the  time  the  call  or  calls  may  be  made,  and  who  are  not,  at 
such  time  or  times,  legally  exempted  from  military  service,  or  such  part 
thereof  as  in  his  judgment  may  bo  necessary  to  the  public  defence; 
such  call  or  calls  to  be  made  under  the  provisions  and  according  to  the 
terms  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment;  and  such  authority 
shall  e.\ist  in  the  President  during  the  present  war,  as  to  all  persons 
who  now  are,  or  may  hereafter  become  eighteen  years  of  age;  and  when 
once  enrolled,  all  persona  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five 
shall  serve  their  full  time:  provided,  that  if  the  President,  in  calling 
out  troops  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  first  call  for" 
only  a  part  of  the  persons  between  the  ages  heretofore  stated,  he  shall 
call  for  those  between  the  ages  of  thirty-five  and  any  other  age  less 
than  forty-five: /i/-oi!(Wec?,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  under- 
stood as  repealing  or  modifying  any  part  of  the  act  to  which  this  is 
amendatory,  except  as  herein  expressly  stated  :  and  provided,  further, 
that  those  called  out  under  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which  this  is  an 
amendment,  shall  be  first  and  immediately  ordered  to  fill  to  their 
ma.ximum  number  the  companies,  battalions,  squadrons,  and  regiments 
from  the  respective  states,  at  the  time  the  act  to  further  provide  for  the 
public  defence,  approved  Kith  April,  1862,  was  passed,  and  the  surplus, 
if  any,  shall  be  assigned  to  organizations  formed  from  each  state  since 
the  passage  of  that  act,  or  placed  in  new  organizations,  to  be  officered 
by  the  state  having  such  residue,  according  to  the  laws  thereof,  or  dis- 
posed of  9fi  now  provided  by  law:  provided,  that  the  President  is 
authorized  to  suspend  the  execution  of  this  act,  or  the  act  to  which  this 
is  an  amendment,  in  any  locality  where  he  may  find  it  impracticable  to 
execute  the  same,  and  that  in  such  locality,  and  during  said  suspen- 
sion, the  President  is  authorized  to  receive  troops  into  the  Confederate 


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Kcrvice,  uiultr  an}'  of  the  act3  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress 
prior  to  the  passage  of  the  act  to  provide  further  for  the  public  ilefeuce, 
approved  16th  April,  1862.     [Approved  September  27,  1862.] 

So.  8. — An    ACT   to  letter  provide  for   the  eick  and  wounded  of  the  army  in 

lio^pitaUi.  • 

Thi:  CuiitjrtKn  of  the  Confalerntc  Statet  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
commutation  value  of  rations  of  sick  and  disabled  soldiers  in  the  Iton- 
pitals  of  the  Confederate  States  is  hereby  fixed  atone  dollar,  instead 
of  the  commutation  now  allowed  by  law,  which  shall  constitute  the 
hospital  fund,  and  be  held  by  the  commissary,  and  be  paid  over  by  him 
from  time  to  time  to  the  surgt-on  or  assistant  surgeon  in  charge  of  tho 
hospital  of  which  the  soldier  whose  ration  was  commuted  is  an  inmate, 
upon  tho  said  "surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon's  requisition,  inade  in 
writing,  when  necessary  to  purchase  supplies  for  said  hospital :  pro- 
vided, hotcciier,  when  said  fund  for  any  one  hospital  shall  increase  over 
and  above  the  monthly  expenditures  of  the  same  to  an  amount  cxcopJ- 
iug  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  the  said  commissarj'  shall  be 
required  to  deposit  the  said  excess  over  and  above  the  said  fi\o  thou- 
sand dollars  in  the  treasury  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  such  other 
place  of  deposit  where  government  moneys  are  ordered  to  be  keptj 
which  said  deposits,  when  so  made,  shall  be  passed  to  the  credit  of  the 
said  Confederate  States,  and  be  liable  to  draft  as  other  public  moneys 
are;  and  all  such  funds  shall  be  accounted  for  bj'  tho  faid  commissary 
iu  his  monthly  report  and  abstract,  as  now  required  by  law:  and ju-o- 
ludcd, /nrthcr,  that  all  such  surgeons  and  assistant  surgeons  who  shall 
receive  from  the  said  commissary  any  part  of  said  hospital  fund,  to  be 
expended  for  the  use  of  hospitals,  shall  bo  held  liable  for  a.  faithful  ap- 
plication of  it,  and  in  a  weekly  account  and  abstract,  to  be  made*  out 
and  forwarded  to  the  oflice  of  the  Surgoon-Gcncral,  to  be  verified  "in 
every  instance  by  vouchers,  shall  show  what  disposition  has  been  ni.ido 
of  it;  which  account,  abstract,  and  accompanying  vouchers,  .-ihall  be 
placed  on  file. 

Sec.  2.  That  tho  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed 
to  make  a  contract  with  the  several  railroad  companies  and  lines  of 
boats  for  the  speediest  practicable  transportation  of  all  supfdies  pur- 
chased for  the  use  of  hospitals  by  agents  accredited  by  tho  surgeon  or 
assistant  surgeon  in  charge  for  that  purpose,  or  donations  by  indi- 
viduals, societies,  or  states;  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  tho  Quarter- 
master-General to  furnish  general  transportation  tickets  to  such  agents 
upon  all  railroad  trains  and  canal  boats,  when  engaged  in  tho  actual 
service  of  said  hospitals,  upon  the  request  of  said  surgeon  or  assist.int 
surgeon. 

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Sec.  3.  That  there  shall  be  allowed  to  each  hospital  of  the  Confed- 
erate States  suits  of  clothing,  consisting  of  shirts,  pantaloons,  and 
drawers,  equal  to  the  number  of  beds  in  the  same,  for  the  use  of  the 
sick  while  in  the  hospitals,  when  so  ordered  by  the  surgeon  or  assistant 
surgeon  in  charge;  which  said  clothing  shall  be  drawn  upon  the  written 
requisition  of  said  surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon,  and  shall  be  receipted 
for  and  kept  as  hospital  clothing,  and  be  accounted  for  as  other  publio 
prcjperty. 

Sec.  4.  That  there  be  allowed  to  each  hospital,  with  rations  and 
suitable  places  of  lodging,  the  following  matrons  and  female  nurses 
and  attendants,  viz :  Two  matrons,  to  be  known  and  designated  as 
hospital  matrons-in-chief,  at  a  salary  not  to  exceed  forty  dollars  per 
Bionth  each,  whose  general  duties  shall  be  to  exercise  a  superintendence 
over  the  entire  domestic  economy  of  the  hospital;  to  take  charge  of 
such  delicacies  as  may  be  provided  for  the  sick:  to  apportion  them  out 
as  required;  to  see  that  the  food  or  diet  is  properly  prepared;  and  all 
such  other  duties  as  may  be  necessary.  Two  matrons,  to  be  known  and 
designated  as  assistant  matrons,  whose  general  duties  shall  be  to  super- 
intend the  laundry ;  to  take  charge  of  the  clothing  of  the  sick ;  the  bed- 
ding of  the  hospital;  to  see  that  they  are  kept  clean  and  neat,  and 
perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  necessary,  at  a  salary  not  to 
exceed  thirty-five  dollars  per  month  each.  Two  matrons  for  each  ward, 
at  a  salary  not  to  exceed  thirty  dollars  per  month  each,  to  be  known 
{tnd  designated  as  ward-matrons,  whose  general  duties  shall  be  to  pre- 
pare the  beds  and  bedding  of  their  respective  wards ;  to  see  that  they 
are  kept  clean  and  in  order;  that  the  food  or  diet  for  the  sick  is  care- 
fully prepared  and  furnished  to  them;  the  medicine  administered;  and 
that  all  patients  requiring  careful  nursing  are  attended  to,  and  all  such 
other  duties  as  may  be  necessary.  And  all  surgeons  and  assistant  sur- 
geons in  charge  of  a  hospital  are  hereby  authorized  to  employ  such 
other  nurses,  either  male  or  female,  as  may  be  necessary  to  the  proper 
care  and  attention  of  the  sick,  at  a  salary  each  not  to  exceed  twenty- 
five  dollars  per  month ;  and  also  the  necessary  cooks,  at  a  salary  not  to 
exceed  twenty-five  dollars  per  month  each ;  and  one  ward-master  for 
each  ward,  at  a  salary  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  dollars  per  month 
each;  giving  preference  in  all  cases  to  females  where  their  services 
may  best  subserve  the  purijose ;  and  in  the  event  a  sufBcient  number  of 
such  nurses  and  ward-masters  can  not  be  employed  not  liable  to  military 
service,  and  it  shall  become  necessary  to  assign  to  this  dutj'  soldiers  in 
the  service,  then,  upon  the  requisition  of  such  surgeon  or  assistant  sur- 
geon in  charge  of  such  hospital,  the  soldier  or  soldiers  so  assigned,  who 
are  skilful  and  competent,  shall  be  permanently  detailed  to  this  duty, 
and  shall  only  be  removable  for  neglect  or  inattention,  by  the  surgeon 


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or  assistaut  surgeon  iu  charge  :  prodded,  in  iill  cases,  that  all  nther 
attendants  and  servants,  not  herein  provided  for,  necessary  to  the  ser- 
vice of  i-aid  hosiiilal,  shall  lie  allowed,  as  now  provided  lij"  law. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  hospitals  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  hereafter 
be  known  and  numbered  as  hospitals  of  a  particular  .state ;  .and  in  all 
eases  where  the  same  can  be  done  without  injury  to  the  patients  or 
great  inconvenience  to  the  government,  all  sick  or  wounded  soldiers, 
being  citizens  or  residents  of  such  particular  state,  shall  be  sent  to 
such  hospitals  as  may  represent  the  same,  and  to  such  private  or  state 
hospitals  rei>resenting  the  same  which  may  be  willing  to  receive  them. 

Sk'-.  C.  That  all  persons  authorized  to  be  employed  by  section  4  of 
this  act,  who  are  not  engaged  in  the  military  service,  and  whose  pay  is 
not  now  provided  for  by  law,  shall  be  paid  monthly  by  any  quarter- 
master or  other  person  authori/.ed  to  pay  troops  in  the  militarv  service, 
upon  a  muster  or  pay  roll,  to  be  made  out  and  certified  to  by  the  sur- 
geon or  assistant  having  in  charge  the  hospital  or  hospitals  in  which 
said  persons  have  been  employed. 

Sr.c.  7.  That  the  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized,  in  such 
way  and  manner  as  he  may  deem  best,  and  under  such  rules  and  regu- 
lations as  he  may  prescribe,  to  enter  into  and  perfect  some  suitable 
arrangement  with  the  railroad  companies,  their  officers  or  authorized 
agents,  whereby  seats  in  one  or  more  cars  of  each  railroad  train,  as 
the  necessities  of  the  ease  may  be,  shall  be  reserved  for  the  use  of  the 
sick  .-ind  wounded  soldiers  who  m.ay  desire  transportation  on  any  such 
railroail,  and  that  no  ])erson  not  sick  or  wounded,  and  not  an  attendant 
upon  the  sick  or  wounded,  sh.all  be  permitted  to  enter  any  such  car  or 
cars  so  reserved  until  the  said  sick  and  wounded  and  their  attendants 
shall  first  have  obtained  seats;  and,  also,  shall  perfect  some  arrange- 
ment with  the  said  railroad  companies,  their  oflieers  or  agents,  whereby 
all  conductors  having  in  charge  .any  such  trains  shall  be  required  to 
provide  for  the  use  of  the  sick  and  wounded  in  thp  ears  so  reserved  a 
suflaeicnt  quantity  of  pure  water. 

Sko.  8.  That  al]  surgeons  and  assistant  surgeons  in  charge  of  a  hos- 
pital, having  in  his  or  their  charge  any  sick  or  wounded  soldier, 
desiring  transportation  as  jiforesaid,  shall,  in  .all  oases,  detail  some 
competent  person  acting  under  his  or  their  authority,  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  accompany  all  such  sick  and  wounded  to  the  depot  of  any 
such  railroad,  to  see  that  all  such  are  properly  cured  for,  and  that  they 
obtain  seats  in  the  said  car  or  cars  so  reserved.  [Approved  September 
•11,  1862.] 


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>o.  9. — An  ACT  to  iimcnd  the  '•  Act  to  authorize  i)aymcnt  to  he  made  for  certain 
horses  juirchaKcd  for  the  army  by  Colonel  A.  W.  McDonahl,"  approved  August 
21, 1862. 

The  CoiKjrcsH  of  the  Confederate  Statex  of  America  do  enact,  That  tlic 
above-recited  act  be  amended  so  as  to  insert  after  the  word  "  horses," 
wherever  it  occurs  iii  said  act,  the  words  "and  cavalry  equipments." 
[Apprbved  September  30,  1862.] 

No.  10. — An  ACT  to  enable  the  President  of  tlie  Confederate  States  to  provide 
the  means  of  military  transportation,  by  tlie  construction  of  a  railroad  between 
IJlue  Mountain,  in  the  State  of  Alabama,  and  Kouie,  in  the  State  of  Georgia. 

Whereas  the  Confederate  States  are  engaged  in  a  war,  the  extent  of 
wliich  has  no  parallel  in  modern  history,  and  the  President,  by  his 
message  of  the  24th  September,  1862,  to  the  Congress,  has  recom- 
mended the  importance  of  constructing  a  railroad  between  Blue  Moun- 
(Ain,  in  Calhoun  county,  Alabama,  and  Rome,  in  the  State  of  Georgia, 
as  a  means  of  transportation  needful  for  tho  public  defence,  and  the 
eongtruction  of  which  is  also  strongly  recommended  by  the  General  in 
oommand  of  the  military  district  in  which  said  road  is  situated : 
Therefore. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
(.he  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  make 
.•ill  contracts,  embracing  such  terms  and  provisions  as  he  may  deem 
expedient  to  cflcct  a  speedy  construction  and  completion  of  the  link  of 
railroad  aforesaid,  with  the  several  railroad  companies  whose  charters 
extend  over  said  line,  in  the  manner  he  may  think  best  calculated  t-o 
promote  the  public  interest  and  provide  for  the  public  defence. 

Seo.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That,  to  enable  the  President  to  accom- 
plish the  object  herein  contemplated,  the  sum  of  one  million  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-two  thousand  four  hundred  and  eighty  dollars  and 
ninety-two  cents,  in  the  bonds  of  the  Confederate  States,  is  hereby 
appropriated,  to  bo  issued  and  applied  by  order  of  tho  President,  at 
such  times  and  in  such  sums  as  ho  may  deem  proper ;  and  that  the 
President  be  directed  to  take  a  mortgage  on  said  road  and  its  appur- 
tenances for  the  ultimate  repayment  of  the  money  so  expended,  with 
interest  at  eight  per  centum  per  annum,  in  aid  of  its  construction. 
[Approved  October  2,  1862.] 

So.  11. — An  ACT  to  amend  an  act  entitled  "An  act  providing  for  the  apiwintmeiit 
of  adjutants  of  regiments  and  legions  of  tho  grade  of  subaltern,  in  addition  to 
the  subalterns  attached  to  companies,"  approved  August  .01,  1861. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
provisions  of  said  act  shall  ba  extended  so  as  to  apply  to  independent 


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battalions,  and  that,  oji  the  recommendation  of  the  commander  of  any 
such  battalion,  an  adjutant  of  the  grade  of  subaltern  may  be  appointed 
by  the  President  for  said  battalion,  who  is  not  attached  as  subaltern  t*.' 
•aid  battalion,  and  that  said  adjutant,  when  so  appointed,  shall  have 
the  same  rank,  pay,  and  allowance  as  are  provided  by  law  for  adjutantt; 
of  regiments.     [Approved  October  2,  1S02.] 

No.  12. — An  ACT  Kuiipluinontal  to  "  An  act  authorizing  the  Secrotnrj  of  Wnr  to 
gr.int  TrunsfcMs,"  approved  Scptembi-r  i",  1S02. 

'  The  Conffrem  of  the  Confederate  Statcn  of  America  do  enact,  That 
whenever  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  grant  transfers  agreeably  to  the 
above  act  to  any  soldier  now  in  the  service,  he  shall  furnish  transporta- 
tion also.     [Approved  October  2,  1S62.] 

No.  1.3. — An  ACT  to  empower  certain  Pcrsoi.s  to  ndniinister  Oaths  in  certain  Cii.Hes. 

The  Coiigreni  of  the  Confederate  Stnten  of  America  do  enact.  Th.it  the 
oath  required  to  enable  sick,  wounded,  or  other  soldiers  to  receive  thek 
pay,  may  be  taken  before  any  quartermaster,  who  \s  hereby  authorized 
to  administer  the  same,  or  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  having  juriff- 
diction,  or  any  other  officer  having  the  right  by  the  laws  of  the  state  t<» 
ndniinister  oaths.     [Approved  October  2,  1862.] 

No.  14 — An  .\CT  supplemontjiry  to  '■  An  ,ict  concerning  the  Pay  and  Allowances 
<lne  to  deco.aged  Soldiers,"  approved  February  lf>,  1862:  und  to  provide  lor  the 
prompt  settlement  of  Claim.s  for  arrcarujjes  of  Pay,  AUowanci'S,  and  Bounty  due 
deceased  Officers  and  Soldiers. 

The  Congreas  of  the  Confederate  Slaten  of  America  do  enact.  That 
claims  duo  to  deceased  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  for  pay, 
ftUowances,  and  bounty,  may  be  audited  and  paid  without  the  necessity 
of  the  parties  entitled  producing  a  pay-roll  from  the  captain  or  com- 
manding officer,  when  there  is  other  official  evidence  of  the  amonnt 
due  satisfactory  to  the  Second  Auditor,  under  such  regulations  as  he 
has  or  may  prescribe,  with  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Skc,  2.  The  claims  of  deceased  commissioned  officers  shall  l>e  paid  to 
their  heirs  or  representatives  in  the  same  manner  as  similar  claims  of 
uon-commissioned  officers  and  privaics  are  now,  or  maj'  bo  directed  by 
law  to  be  paid ;  and  to  assist  the  Second  Auditor  in  more  eftcctHally 
carrying  out  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  oilier  pressing  business  of 
his  office,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  authcn-ized  to  appoint  an 
experienced  accountant,  who,  with  the  chief  clerk,  shall  have  authority 
t-o  sign  and  attest  such  official  business  as  said  Auditor  sh.all  approve 
and  direct. 

Sec.  3.  The  Secretary  of  ihe  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized  to  employ 


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ill  the  office  of  the  Second  Auditor  as  many  additional  temporary  clerks 
as  he  may  think  necessary  to  assist  said  Auditor  in  the  settlement  of 
the  claims  of  deceased  officers  and  soldiers,  the  compensation  of  said 
clerks  to  be  four  dollars  per  day,  and  without  any  addition  whate-ver, 
for  evcrj'  day  they  shall  be  so  actually  engaged,  except  one,  whose 
'tinnual  compensation  shall  be  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  the  others  to  be 
p.aid  weekly  at  the  treasury,  upon  a  certificate  of  service  of  said  Auditor. 
Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  take  efi"ect  from  its  passage,  and  the  third 
5?ei'tiou  ilinll  continue  in  force"  for  twelve  months,  and  no  longer.  [Ap- 
proved Octobi:r  3,  1862.] 

No.  15. — An  ACT  to  provide  for  the  orgauiz,ation  of  Army  Corps. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  eiiaet,  That  the 
sixth  section  of  an  act  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,  approved 
March  G,  1862,  be  so  amended  as  to  authorize  the  President  to  organize 
divisions  of  the  Provisional  army  of  the  Confederate  States  into  army 
corps;  and,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  to  appoint 
officers  to  the  command  thereof.     [Approved  October  6,  1862.] 

No.  16. — An  .4CT  to  authorize  the  establi.slimeiit  of  Ciiuips  of  Instruction,  and  tlio 
appointment  of  otficers  to  command  the  same. 

Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President  be  and  he  is  authorized  to  establish  camps  of  instruction  for 
persons  enrolled  for  military  service,  at  such  places  and  in  such  nura- 
bjrs  in  the  s^vjral  states  as  he  may  deem  necessary,  and  to  appoint, 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  officers  in  the  Pro- 
visional army,  with  the  rank  and  pay  of  major,  to  superintend  and 
command  the  same.     [Approved  October  8,  1862.] 

No.  17. — \n  ACT  toreijeal  thelaw  autliorizingconiinutatiou  fur  SdIiUits' Clothing, 
and  to  require  Clothing  to  be  funiislied  by  the  Secretary  of  War  in  kind. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  so 
much  of  the  existing  law  as  provides  commutation  for  clothing  to  the 
soldiers  in  the  service  of  the  Confederacy,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
repealed :  and  hereafter  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  provide  in  kind  to 
the  soldiers  respectively  the  uniform  clothing  prescribed  by  the  regu- 
lations of  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States;  and  should  any  balance 
of  clothing  be  due  to  any  soldier  at  the  end  of  the  year,  the  money  value 
of  such  balance  shall  be  paid  to  such  soldier,  according  to  the  value  of 
such  clothing,  fixed  and  announced  by  order  from  the  War  department. 
[Approved  October  S,  1862.] 


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No.  18.— An  ACT  to  amend  an  .ict  entitled  "An  act  for  the  organization  of  the 
Staff  dt-partinpnts  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America. '  approved 
March  14,1861. 

The  Congress  of  the  Con/edernte  Stnten  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
first  section  of  the  act  entitled  "An  act  for  the  organisation  of  the  Staff 
departments  of  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,"  ap- 
proved March  14,  1861,  be  amended  by  adding  to  the  Adjutant  and 
Inspcctor-fieneral's  department  one  assistant  adjutant-general,  with 
the  rank  of  colonel.     [Approved  October  8,  1862.] 

No.  19— An  ACT  to  organize  Military  Courts  to  attend  the  army  of  the  Confeder- 
ate States  in  tlie  t'icld.  and  to  define  the  Powers  of  said  Courts. 

The  ConrjreiK  of  the  Confederate  .plates  of  America  do  enact.  That 
courts  shall  be  organized,  to  be  known  as  military  courts,  one  to  attend 
each  army  corps  in  -the  field,  under  the  direction  of  the  President. 
Each  court  shall  consist  of  three  members,  two  of  whom  shall  consti- 
tute a  quorum,  and  each  member  shall  be  entitled  to  the  rank  and  pay 
of  a  colonel  of  cavalry,  shall  be  appointed  by  the  President,  by  .and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  and  shall  hold  his  oflGcc 
during  the  war,  unles.s  the  court  shall  be  sooner  abolished  by  Congress. 
For  each  court  there  shall  be  one  judge  advocate,  to  be  appointed  by 
the  President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  with 
the  rank  and  pay  of  a  captain  of  cavalry,  whose  duties  .-hall  be  as  pre- 
scribed by  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War,  except  as  enlarged  or  modified 
by  the  purposes  and  provi.=ions  of  this  act,  and  who  shall  also  hold  hin 
office  during  the  war,  unless  the  court  shall  be  sooner  abolished  by  the 
Congress;  and  in  case  of  the  absence  or  disability  of  the  judge  advocate, 
upon  the  application  of  the  court,  the  commander  of  the  army  corps  to 
which  such  court  is  attached  may  appoint  or  detail  an  officer  to  perform 
the  duties  of  judge  advocate  during  such  absence  or  disability,  or  until 
the  vacancy,  if  any,  shall  be  filled  by  the  President. 

Sec.  2.  Each  court  shall  have  the  right  to  appoint  a  provost  marshal 
to  attend  its  sittings  and  execute  the  orders  of  the  court,  with  the  rank 
and  pay  of  a  captain  of  cavalry ;  and  also  a  clerk,  who  shall  have  a 
salary  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  Hlollars  per  month,  who  shall 
keep  the  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  court,  .and  sh.all  reduce  to 
writing  the  substance  of  the  evidence  in  each  ease,  and  file  the  same  in 
court.  The  provost  marshal  .and  the  clerk  shall  hold  their  offices 
during  the  pleasure  of  the  court.  Each  member  and  officer  of  the  court 
shall  take  an  oath  well  and  truly  to  discharge  the  duties  of  his  office  to 
the  best  of  his  skill  and  ability,  without  fear,  favor,  or  reward,  and  to 
support  the  Constitution  of  the  Confederate  States.  Each  member  of 
the  court,  the  judge  advocate,  and  the  clerk,  shall  have  the  power  to 
administer  this. 


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Sec.  3.  Each  court  shall  have  power  to  adopt  rules  for  conducting 
business  and  for  the  trial  of  causes,  and  to  enforce  the  rules  adopted. 
«nd  to  punish  for  contempt,  and  to  regulate  the  taking  of  evidence,  and 
to  secure  the  attendance  of  witnesses,  and  to  enforce  and  execute  its 
orders,  sentences,  and  judgments,  as  in  cases  of  courts  martial. 

Sec.  4.  The  jurisdiction  of  each  court  shall  extend  to  all  offences  now 
cognizable  by  courts  martial  under  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War  and 
the  customs  of  war,  and  also  to  all  offences  defined  as  crimes  by  the 
laws  of  the  Confederate  States  or  of  the  several  states,  and,  when  beyond 
the  territory  of  the  Confederate  States,  to  all  cases  of  murder,  man- 
slaughter, arson,  rape,  robbery,  and  larceny,  as  defined  by  the  common 
law,  when  committed  by  any  private  or  officer  in  the  army  of  the  Con- 
federate States  against  any  other  private  or  officer  in  the  army,  or 
against  the  property  or  person  of  any  citizen  or  other  person  within  the 
.■iriny  ;  provided,  said  courts  shall  not  have  jurisdiction  of  offenders 
above  the  grade  of  colonel.  For  offences  cognizable  by  courts  martial, 
the  court  shall,  on  conviction,  inflict  the  penalty  prescribed  by  the 
Rules  and  Articles  of  War,  and  in  the  m.anner  and  mode  therein  men- 
tioned ;  and  for  offences  not  punishable  by  the  Rules  and  Articles  of 
War,  but  punishable  by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States, ^aid  court 
shall  inflict  the  penalties  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate 
States;  and  for  offences  against  which  penalties  are  not  prescribed  by 
the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War,  nor  by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate 
States,  but  for  which  penalties  are  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  a  state, 
said  court  shall  inflict  the  punishment  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  the 
state  iu  which  the  offence  was  committed :  2>>'oridcd,  that  in  cases  in 
which,  by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States  or  of  the  state,  the  pun- 
ishment is  by  fine  or  by  imprisonment,  or  by  both,  the  court  may,  iu  its 
discretion,  inflict  any  other  punishment  less  than  death :  and  for  the 
offences  defined  as  murder,  manslaughter,  arson,  rape,  robbery,  and  lar- 
ceny, by  the  common  law,  when  committed  beyond  the  territorial  limits 
of  the  Confederate  States,  the  punishment  shall  be  in  the  discretion  of 
the  court.  That  when  an  officer  under  the  grade  of  Brigadier-General, 
or  private,  shall  be  put  under  arrest  for  any  offence  cognizable  by  the 
court  heroin  provided  for,  notice  of  his  arrest  and  of  the  offence  with 
which  ho  sha,l!  be  charged  shall  be  given  to  the  judge  .advocate  by  the 
officer  ordering  said  arrest,  and  he  shall  be  entitled  to  as  speedy  a  trial 
as  the  business  before  said  court  will  allow. 

Sec.  5.  Said  courts  shall  attend  the  army,  shall  have  appropriate 
quarters  within  the  lines  of  the  army,  shall  be  always  open  for  the 
transaction  of  business,  and  the  final  decisions  and  sentences  of  said 
courts  in  conviotions  shall  be  subject  to  review,  mitigation,  and  suspen- 
sion, as  now  provided  by  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War  iu  eases  of 
courts  martial. 


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Seo.  6.  That  during  the  recoss  of  the  Senate,  the  President  may 
appoint  the  members  of  the  fiourts  and  the  judges  advocate  provided 
for  in  the  previous  sections,  subject  to  tho  confirmation  of  the  Senate 
at  its  session  next  ensuing  said  appointments.  [Approved  October  9. 
1862.] 

No.  20. — An  ACT  to  proviiic  Shoes  fnr  the  Amij-. 

Thf  fnnqreiR  nf  the  Confederate  Staiex  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  on  the  requisition  of  the 
Qiiartermastcr-<3eneral,  to  detail  from  the  army  persf>n?  skilled  in  the 
manufacture  of  shoes,  not  to  exceed  two  thousand  in  number;  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Quartermaster-General  to  place  them,  >Tithout 
delay,  at  suitable  points  in  shops,  under  proper  re^rulations  prescribed 
by  him.  and  employ  tbcm  diligently  in  the  manufacture  of  shoes  for 
the  army. 

Skc.  2.  lie  it  further  enacted.  That  soldiers  detailed  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  pay  for  extra  duty,  and 
also  thirty-five  cents  per  pair  for  shoes  manufactured  by  them  sever- 
ally, in  addition  to  regular  pfty  and  rations.  [Approved  October  9, 
1862.] 

No.  21. — .\n  ACT  to  authorise  the  I'rosidcnt  to  iiccept  and  place  iu  tho  service 
certain  Ueglmcnts  and  Battalions  horotofore  rniicd. 

The  Covf/reRt)  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  President  be  and  be  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered,  when- 
ever in  his  opinion  the  public  good  would  be  pron)otcd  thereby,  to 
receive  into  the  service  regiments  or  batt.ilions  which  have  been  organ- 
ized in  good  faith  prior  to  the  1st  day  of  October,  1802,  under  authority 
or  by  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War.  or  any  general  officer  of  the 
government,  although  said  regiments  or  battalions  may  be  composed 
in  part  of  persons  bctweou  tho  ages  of  eighteen  and  thirt.v-fivc  years: 
provided,  fhot  this  authority  shall  not  extend  to  regiments  or  battal- 
ions organized  after  tho  said  1st  day  of  October.  1S62.  excci>t  in  those 
states  and  locations  where  the  conscript  law  may  be  suspended. 

Skc.  2.  That  the  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and 
empowered,  whenever  in  \\\s  opinion  it  would  promote  the  public  good, 
to  receive  into  service  regiments  or  batt.ilious  which  h.avc  been  hereto- 
fore organized  of  conscripts  by  a  general  officer  in  any  of  the  state? 
lying  west  of  the  Mississippi  river. 

Skc.  ."?.  That  all  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments  of  infantry 
raised  or  organized  before  tho  first  day  of  December  next,  wilhin  the 
limits  of  Middle  and  West  Tennessee,  to  be  composed  of  residents  of 
said  districts,  may  be  accepted  by  the  President,  when  in  bis  opinion 


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the  public  interest  will  be  promoted  thereby,  and  said  troops  shall  be 
allowed  to  elect  their  own  officers  for  the  first  election,  after  which  all 
vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  the  President  under  the  act,  and  the  acts 
amendatory  of  the  same,  providing  for  the  public  defence,  passed  16th 
of  April,  1802,  and  also  such  counties  in  North  Carolina  lying  east  of 
the  line  of  the  Wilmington  and  "Weldon  railroad  as  are  beyond  the 
lines  of  the  army  and  exposed  to  the  incursions  of  the  enemj'.  [Ap- 
proved October  11,  1S62.] 

No.  22. — An  ACT  to  amend  an  act  entUIeil  '-An  act  to  raise  an  additional  Militai-y 
Force  to  serve  during  the  war,"'  approved  Stli  5I:iy,  1S61.  and  to  provide  for 
raising  forces  in  the  States  of  Missouri  and  Kentucky. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Atneri^n,  do  enact,  That 
the  first  and  second  sections  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment 
are  hereby  declared  to  have  full  force  and  effect  in  those  states  and 
districts  in  which  the  President  may,  under  the  law,  suspend  the  pro- 
visions of  the  acts  providing  for  the  enrolment  of  persons  for  military 
service,  or  when  said  acts  can  not  be  enforced  bj'  reason  of  the  occupa- 
tion of  the  enemy:  prooi'ded.  tli.at  the  troops  received  under  the  sec- 
tions of  said  act  shall  be  received  for  three  years  or  for  the  war. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  President  may,  in  eases  when  in  his  opinion  the 
public  interest  requires  that  he  should  do  so,  appoint  major  and  briga- 
dier-generals with  their  appropriate  staffs,  and  also  the  field,  company, 
and  staff  ofiScers  to  regiments,  battalions,  companies,  or  squadrons, 
before  the  same  are  organized,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Senate;  and  if  said  regiments,  battalions,  companies,  or  squadrons 
are  not  reported  as  complete  within  a  reasonable  time,  the  President' 
may,  in  his  discretion,  vacate  the  commissions  of  said  officers,  who 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  pay  of  their  respective  grades  from  the  date  of 
their  respective  appointments  until  their  commissions  a.re  vacated:  and 
that  companies  of  infa«try  shall  consist  of  at  least  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five,  rank  and  file,  companies  of  artillery  of  at  least  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty,  rank  and  file,  and  companies  of  cavalry  of  at  least 
eighty,  rank  and  file.     [Approved  October  11,  1S62.] 

No.  23. — An  ACT  amendatory  of  an  act  entiilod  "An  .ict  providing  for  the  granting 
of  Bounties  .ind  I'urlouglis  to  Priv.ates  and  Nun-Cunnnissionod  Officers  in  the 
Provisional  Army,-'  approved  December  11. 1801. 

7'lie  Co)i(/ress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  above-recited  act  be  so  amended  as  to  secure  to  all  soldiers  and 
non-commissioned  officers  who  shall  have  entered  the  armies  of  the 
Confederate  States  for  three  years  or  during  the  war,  the  bounty  of 
fifty  dollars,  as  therein  provided,  although  such  soldier  or  non-com- 


missioned  officer  may  liavc  been  icillcfl  in  battle,  died,  or  been  linn- 
orabiy  discharged  before  the  expiration  of  the  first  year's  service  of 
his  term,  to  bo  jiaid  as  other  arrearages.     [Approved  October  11,  1862.] 

Xo.  24. —  An  ACT  to  autliorize  the  rresidont  to  make  oertnin  .T]ipninfiiipnt'<  duiiuir 
the  rec<'ss  of  tlic  Sciiafp. 

The  Cotlijrenii  of  the  Conj'i:der»tc  Staten  nf  Aiiicrirn  <l<i  tii'icl,  That 
the  President  he  and  he  i.s  hereby  authorized  to  fill  by  appointment  all 
offices  created,  and  all  vacancies  which  may  have  occurred  iluring  the 
present  session  of  Congress:  prm-idrd,  that  said  appointments  shall, 
at  the  next  session  of  Congress,  be  submitted  to  the  Senate  for  its 
advice  and  consent:  and  provided,  fnrthf.r,  that  said  appointments 
shall  expire,  unless  confirmed  during  the  next  session  of  the  Pcnato. 
[Approved  October  \?,,  1862.] 

No.  25  — .\n  ATT  to  icgiiljito  ami  fix  tbo  jiny  of  C.-iilcts  in  tbo  servire  of  ilip  Con- 
foderato  .Statos. 

The,  <Jnn</rf:sn  of  lliv  <'aii/<dcrat)j  Sfntcs  of  Ameiira  do  rmtrt,  That 
the  pay  of  cadets  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  the 
same  as  second  lieutenants  of  the  arm  of  service  to  which  they  arc 
attached.     [Approved  October  \:\,  1862.] 

No.  2G. —  \\\  .\("r  «o  iv'licvc  the  ^rmy  of  clisi>{u:ilitii'(l.  disableil,  an<i  inconiiieteiit 
Officers. 

The  Coii(jrc«s  of  the  Confederate  Slulen  of  Anicriea  do  enact.  That 
whenever,  in  the  judgment  of  the  general  commanding  a  department, 
the  good  of  the  service  and  the  efficiency  of  his  command  require  it, 
he  is  authorized,  and  it  is  hereby  made  his  duty,  to  appoint  an  exam- 
ining board,  to  be  composed  of  officers  of  a  rank  at  least  as  high  as 
that  of  the  officers  whose  qualifications  it  is  proposed  to  inquire  into, 
which  board  shall  immediately  proceed  to  examine  into  the  eases  of 
such  odiccrs  as  may  be  brought  to  their  attention,  for  the  ]>urposc  of 
determining  their  qualifications  for  the  discharge  of  the  duties  prop- 
erly apjiertaining  to  their  several  positions. 

Sec.  2.  lie  it  further  enacted,  That  whenever  such  examining  board 
shall  determine  that  any  officer  is  clearly  unfit  to  jicrforni  his  legiti- 
mate and  proper  duties,  or  careless  and  inattentive  in  their  discharge, 
then  the  said  board  shall  comnuinicate  their  decision,  together  with  the 
full  reiiort  of  their  proceedings  in  the  case,  to  the  general  commanding 
the  department  in  which  the  examination  shall  have  been  held,  who 
shall,  if  he  approve  the  finding  of  the  board,  be  authorized  to  suspend 
the  officer  who  has   been  pronounced  unfit  for  his   position,  and  shall 


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immediately  transmit  to  tbe  Secretary  of  War  the  decision  and  pro- 
ceediugs  of  the  examining  board,  with  bis  own  action  and  opinion 
endorsed  thereon:  provided,  that  such  officer  shall  be  entitled  to  be 
heard,  and  to  call  witnesses  in  his  defence. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Secretary  of  War,  if  he 
approve  the  finding  of  the  board  and  the  action  of  the  general  com- 
manding the  department,  shall  lay  the  same  before  the  President,  who 
is  authorized  to  retire  honorably,  without  pay  or  allowance,  or  to  droj) 
from  the  army,  as  the  circum.stances  of  the  case  may  warrant  and  tbe 
good  of  the  service  may  require,  the  oflRcer  who  has  been  found  unfit 
for  his  position. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That,  in  order  to  secure  relial'io  infor- 
mation of  the  efficiency  and  competency  of  officer?,  it  is  hereby  made 
the  duty  of  each  officer  commanding  a  regiment,  separate  battalion, 
company,  battery,  or  squadron,  to  make  to  his  immediate  commanding 
officer,  who  shall  transmit  the  same  to  the  brigadier-general  command- 
ing, a  monthly  report,  in  tabular  form,  a  copy  whereof  shall  be  retained 
by  the  reporting  officer,  subject  to  the  inspection  of  all  officers  interested 
therein,  containing  a  list  of  all  commissioned  officers  of  such  regiment, 
separate  battalion,  company,  battery,  or  squadron,  in  which  shall  be 
stated  the  number  of  days  each  officer  has  been  absent  from  his  com- 
mand, with,  or  without,  or  on  sick  leave;  the  number  of  times  each 
officer  has  been  observed  to  have  been  absent  from  his  command  when 
on  march  or  in  action  ;  when  and  where  tach  officer  has  been  observed 
to  have  performed  signal  acts  of  service  j  when  and  where  negligent  in 
the  performance  of  duty,  and  inattentive  to  the  security  and  economy 
of  public  property ;  printed  blank  forms  of  which  said  reports  shall  be 
furnished  by  the  Secretary  of  War  for  the  use  of  the  officers  whose 
duty  it  is  made  to  make  such  reports. 

Skc.  5.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  whenever  any  officer  of  a  com- 
pany, battalion,  squadron,  or  regiment,  shall  have  been  dropped  or 
honorably  retired,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  then 
the  officer  next  in  rank  shall  be  promoted  to  the  vacancy,  if  competent, 
such  competency  to  be  ascertained  as  provided  in  the  first  and  second 
sections  of  this  act;  and  if  not  competent,  then  the  next  officer  in  rank 
shall  be  promoted;  and  so  on,  until  all  tbe  commissioned  officers  of  the 
company,  battalion,  squadron,  or  regiment,  shall  have  been  gone 
through  with ;  and  if  there  be  no  officer  of  the  company,  battalion, 
squadron,  or  regiment,  competent  to  fill  the  vacancy,  then  the  Presi- 
dent shall,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  fill  the 
same  by  appointment:  ^jrouiVerf,  that  the  officer  appointed  shall  be  from 
the  same  state  as  that  to  which  the  company,  battalion,  squadron,  or 
regiment  belongs:  and  provided,  further,  that  nothing  herein  contained 


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shall  be  construed  as  limiting  the  power  heretofore  conferred  upon  the 
President  by  existing  laws  to  fill  any  vacancy  by  the  promotion  of 
officers  or  the  appointment  of  privates  "distinguished  in  the  service  by 
the  exhibition  of  extraordinary  valor  and  skill;"  and  provided,  further, 
that  vacancies  arising  under  the  operation  of  this  act  in  regiments  or 
battalions  which  were  organized  under  the  laVs  of  a  state  for  the  war, 
or  for  a  period  not  yet  expired,  shall  bo  filled  as  in  case  of  death  or 
resignation.     [Approved  October  13,  1862.] 

\o.  2". — All  ACT  to  authori/.e  tlio  grant  <>f  Medals  and  Badges  of  Distinction  a«  a 
reward  for  Courage  and  Good  Conduct  on  the  Field  of  Battle. 

The  CotigreBS  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  bestow  medals,  with  proper 
devices,  upon  such  oflicers  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States  as 
shall  be  conspicuous  for  courage  and  good  conduct  on  the  field  of  battle; 
and  also  to  confer  a  badge  of  distinction  upon  one  private  or  non-com- 
missioned officer  of  each  company  after  every  signal  victory  it  shall 
have  assisted  to  achieve.  The  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates 
of  the  company  who  may  bo  present  in  the  first  dress  parade  there- 
after may  choose,  by  a  mnjority  of  their  votes,  the  soldier  best  entitled 
to  receive  such  distinction,  whose  name  shall  be  communicated  to  the 
President  by  commanding  officers  of  the  company;  and  if  the  award 
fall  upon  a  deceased  soldier,  the  badge  thus  awarded  him  shall  bo 
delivered  to  his  widow;  or  if  there  be  no  widow,  to  any  relation  the 
President  may  adjudge  entitled  to  receive  it,  [Approved  October  13, 
1862.] 

No.  2S. — An  Atvr  to  authorize  the  formation  of  Volunteer  Companies  for  Local 
Defence. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  for 
the  purpose  of  local  defence  in  any  portion  of  the  Confederate  States, 
any  number  of  persons  not  less  than  twenty,  who  are  over  the  age  of 
forty-five  years,  or  otherwise  not  liable  to  military  dutj',  may  associate 
themselves  as  a  military  company,  elect  their  own  officers,  and  establish 
rules  and  regulations  for  their  own  government,  and  shall  be  considered 
as. belonging  to  the  Provisional  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  serving 
without-pay  or  allowances,  and  entitled,  when  captured  by  the  enemy, 
to  all  the  privileges  of  prisoners  of  war:  provided,  that  such  comjiany 
shall,  as  soon  as  practicable,  transmit  their  muster-roll,  or  a  list  of  the 
names  of  the  officers  and  privates  thereof,  to  the  Governor  of  the  state, 
the  commanding  general  of  the  depivrtment,  or  any  brigadier-general 
in  the  state  or  Confederate  service,  to  be  forwarded  to  the  Secretary  of 
War;  but  the  President  or  the  commander  of  the  military  district  may, 


• 


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at  any  time,  disband  such  companies:  jtrovideJ ,  that  in  the  states  and 
districts  in  which  the  act  entitled  "An  act  to  further  provide  for  the 
public  defence/'  approved  April  10,  1862,  and  the  acts  amendatory 
thereof,  have  been  suspended,  persons  of  any  age,  resident  within  such 
states  or  districts,  may  volunteer  and  form  part  of  such  companies  so  ' 
long  as  such  suspension  may  continue:  provided,  that  no  person  shall 
become  a  member  of  said  company  until  he  shall  have  first  taken  the 
oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Confederate  States  of  America  in  writing,  a 
copy  of  which  shall  be  filed  with  the  muster-roll  of  said  company  as 
above  prescribed.     [Approved  October  V-j,  1S()2.] 

No.  'jy. — An  ACT  to  increase  luiJ  logulate  t)ic  iippoiiitinciit  of  (ieaeritl  Officers  in 
the  Provisional  Army. 

The  CuiKjress  of  the  Cimfvderate  StutCH  of  America  do  ctiurt,  That  the 
President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  Senate,  to  appoint  twenty  general  officers  in  the  Provis- 
ional army,  and  to  assign  them  to  such  appropriate  duties  as  he  may 
deem  expedient.     [Approved  October  \?>,  1862.] 

By  order. 

S.  COOPEK, 
AilJiiUn/t  and  Inxpector-d'eneroL 


GKNERAL  ORDERS,")  Aujltaxt  a^v  Jxsi'UCTOR-OE.MiiiAi.'s  OinoK. 

No.  94.  f  RiciiMOND.  Xovemher  24,  18C-_>. 

I.  .At  a  General  Court  Martial  held  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1862,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  118,  of  July  28,  1862, 
from  the  Head-quarters  of  the  Department  of  South  Carolina  and 
Georgia,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Captain  A.  S.  Cannct,  Company  C,  -ITtb  Georgia  volunteers,  on  the 
following  charges  and  specifications  : 

CHAltOE    I. 
Violalioii  of  lur.  .".-Jt/  AHidc  of  ]Vu>: 

Spccificalian. — In  this;  '-That  lie,  the  said  A.  S.  Cannet,  acting  .SL^cond  Lieulen- 
ant.  Company  C,  47th  Georgia  volunteers.  P.  A.  C.  iS.,  did  shamefully  abandon  hi.s 
post,  and  leave  the  same  exposed  to  the  enemy."  AH  this  on  Jamo.s  island,  ou  or 
about  Ibc  nioruiDg  of  the  1st  of  July,  ISO";. 


135 

CuAnoE  II. 
Viutation  of  the  99(/i  Article  of  War. 

SprcificatioiK— In  this:  ••Tlmt  lie,  the  siiiiJ  A.  H.  iUimd.  acting  as  gecond  Lieu- 
tenant of  Conipauy  C,  47th  Georgia  volnnf ccis,  1*.  X.  C.  S.,  did  neglect  to  halt  the 
fleeing  sentinels  and  make  them  stand  to  their  post  until  it  was  actually  neces- 
sary to  abandon  it."  All  this  on  James  island,  on  or  about  the  1st  day  of  July, 
1862. 

H.-.t'lNhl-Vli-S   AND   SKXTE.NXK   OK    Tllli   COIT.T. 

After  nialuro  deliberation,  the  Coiirt  finds  the  accused,  Ciiptain  A.  S.  Cannrl, 
4Tth  Georgia  volnutcers.  a.-»  follows:  9 

Of  the  Speci'tieation  of  1st  Charok:  ■'Guilty.'" 
Of  the  \st  CiiARUK  :  "Guilty." 
Of  (he  Specif  cut  ion  (;/*2(/ CnAR(iK  :  ••  Guilty." 
Of  the  -Zil  Chauce  :  ■■  Guilty." 

And  does,  therefore,  senteme  the  said  Captain  J.  S.  Cannei.  of  Company  C,  47tli 
Georgia  volunteers  -to  he  ca.Miiered." 

III.  .The  procecding.i  iu  the  foregoing  case  having,  with  the  fiuJings 
and'seiitence  of  the  Court,  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  ami 
laid  before  the  President,  and  by  him  approved  and  confirmed,  Captain 
A.  S.  Cannot,  of  Company  C,  47th  Georgia  volunteers,  therefore  ceases 
to  be  an  officer  of  the  Confederate  vStatcs  army  from  this  date. 

By  order. 

K^.  COOPEK, 
Adjutant  and  Iiti^pfctor-Ginirdl. 


OK'SEliAh  OliDKKS.  i  Adjutant  and  I.NSPECTOu-GKM:r.AL's  Officf, 

Xo.  95.  )  IlU'HMOND.  ytivcmber  'J-j,  IStVJ. 

To  carry  into  eflect  the  provisions  of  "An  act  to  V>ctter  provide  for 
the  sick  and  wounded  of  the  army  in  hospitals.''  approved  September 
27,  1862,  the  following  in.structions  are  jjublished: 

1.  The'comuuitcd  value  of  rations  for  the  sick  and  wounded  in  hvs- 
pitals  will  be  one  dollar.  Rations  for  hospital  attendants  will  be  com- 
muted at  the  rates  heretofore  fixed  by  regulations. 

'J.  Commissaries  of  subsistence  will  transfer,  for  the  purchase  of 
necessary  supplies  for  the  sick  and  wounded,  to  the  medical  officer  iu 


136 


charge  of  a  hospital  (taking  duplicate  receipts  therefor)  sueli  portion 
of  the  hospital  fund  as  may  be  demanded  on  requisition. 

3.  Accounts  current  of  the  portion  of  the  hospital  fund  thus  trans- 
ferred will  be  rendered  weekly  to  the  Surgeon-General  by  the  medical 
officer  in  charge  of  a  hospital,  accompanied  by  vouchers  (numbered)  fur 
the  expenditures.  The  fractional  part  of  the  week  corresponding  with 
tlje  termination  of  a  month  will  be  included  in  the  fourth  or  last  account 
current  of  the  month.     The  following  form  will  be  adopted  : 


Account  Curreki-of  the  Hospital  Fvjnd  expended  fok  the 
week  commencing and  ending  186     . 


Swyeon 


-,  in  charge  of  ■ 


Hospital  at 


in  account  with 


Confederate  States. 


186    . 
October           1... 

Dr. 

55 

500 
555 

221 
$334 

50 

To  amount  transforred  by  the  commissary  for  the  pur- 
chase of  supplies  for  the  subsistence  or  comfort  of  the 

00 

Voucher  No.  1.  ... 

Cr.                         Pdrchased: 

7|00 

175  00 

12  50 

'.6  50 

60 

-     "'■■{ 

By   35  lbs.  butter.  »t  .30  ceuts 10  50 

00 

;50 

-Hotpital  at- 


-186 


Sure/eon  in  Charge. 


4.  A  copy  of  the  '-Statement  of  the  Hospital  Fund"  will  be  rendered 
monthly  by  medical  officers  to  the  Surgeon-tieneral,  according  to  the 
following  form  : 


137 


Statement  ok  the  Hospital  Fund  at  - 
OK  186 


KOR    THE    MONTH 


Dr. 

To  balaiici-  due  hospital  Inst  month 

1,632  rations,  being  whole  amount  due  this  month 

for  the  sick  and  wounded,  at  SI  per  ration 

4.10  rations  for  hospital  attendants,  at  30  cents  per 

ration 


Cr.  Issued: 

By  the  following  provisions  at  contract  prices: 

283J/1J  lbs.  of  pork,  at  10  cents  per  lb 

690      lbs,  of  fresh  beef,  at  !S  cents  per  lb 

10      lbs.  of  hard  bread,  at  4  cents  per  lb... 

70      lbs.  of  rice,  at  (>  cents  per  lb 

5()     lbs.  of  coffee,  at  121^  cents  per  lb 

193%  lbs.  of  sugar,  at  S  cents  per  lb 

171^  qts,  of  vinegar,  at  5  cents  per  qt 

15  ft-16  lbs.  of  candles,  at  12  cents  per  lb..,. 

6II4  lbs.  of  soap,  at  6  cent.s  per  lb 

16J^  qts  of  salt,  at  3  cents  per  qt 

12    galls,  of  uiola.sses.  at  28  cents  per  gall. 


1.6.32  00 
135  00 


Tr.\nsferred:  I] 

Amount  transferred  to  the  me<lical  officer  in  1 

charge  for  the  piirchase  of  supplies  for  the  ! 

subsistence    or  comfort   of   the  sick    and  | 

wounded: 

October    2 11  500'OOi 

12 i    250  00 

27 il  150  001 


Total  issue  transferred. 


Amount  of  hospital  fund 

Excess  of  fund  (over  $6,000),  to  be  returned  to  treasury. 


Balance  due  tliis  month. 


4,820 


2S  35 
55  20I 
50  42i 
0'40 
4  20 
700 
15  51 

0  8C 

1  83 
3  68 
0  50 
3  36 


177  31 


1,077 

5.409 
409 


$5,000 


Surgeon  in  Charge. 


b.  When  a  hospital  fund  shall  exceed  five  thousand  dollars  the  Com- 
missary of  subsistcuee  having  the  fund  in  hand  will  deposit  such 
excess  in  the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  other  place  of 
deposit  where  government  moneys  are  kept,  to  be  liable  to  draft  as 
other  public  moneys  are.  Commissaries  will  account  for  hospital  funds 
on  their  monthly  abstracts  and  summary  statements. 

6.  The  Quartermaster  will  have  arrangements  made  with  the  various 
railroad  companies  and  lines  of  boats  for  the  speediest  practicable 
transportation  of  suppli«?s  for  the  hospitals;  and  general  transporta- 
12 


i:i8 

tion  tickets  will  be  furnished  to  accroditod  agents  engaged  in  tho 
actual  purchase  of  these  supplies  upon  the  request  of  the  medical 
officer  in  charge  of  a  hospital. 

7.  Medical  officers  in  charge  of  general  hospitals  will  make  requisi- 
tions on  the  medical  purveyors  for  hospital  suits  (shirts,  pantaloons, 
and  drawers)  for  the  use  of  tho  sick  and  wounded  while  in  hospital, 
not  to  exceed  in  number  the  number  of  beds  ;  which  clothing  shall  be 
borne  on  the  returns,  and  be  accounted  for  as  other  hospital  property. 

8.  There  will  bo  allowed  to  each  general  hospital,  with  rations  and 
suitable  places  of  lodging,  two  chief  matrons,  at  a  salary  not  to 
exceed  forty  dollars  per  month  each,  whose  general  duties  shall  be  to 
exercise  a  superintendence  over  the  entire  domestic  economy  of  the 
hospital ;  to  take  charge  of  such  delicacies  as  may  bo  provided  for  tho 
sick ;  to  apportion  them  out  as  required ;  to  see  that  tho  food  or  diet 
is  properly  prepared;  and  all  such  other  duties  as  may  be  necessary  ; 
two  assistant  matrons,  at  a  salary  not  to  exceed  thirty-tive  dollars  per 
month  each,  whojie  general  duties  shall  be  to  superintend  the  laundry ; 
to  take  charge  of  the  clothing  of  the  sick  and  the  bedding  of  the  hos- 
pital ;  to  see  that  they  are  kept  clean  and  neat;  and  perform  such  other 
duties  as  may  be  necessary :  two  wardmatrons  for  each  ward  (esti- 
mating 100  patients  for  each  ward),  at  a  salary  not  to  exceed  thirty 
dollars  per  month  each,  whoso  general  duties  shall  be  to  prepare  the 
beds  and  bedding  of  their  respective  wards;  to  see  that  they  are  kept 
clean  and  in  order;  that  the  food  or  diet  for  the  sick  is  carefullj'  pre- 
pared and  furnished  to  them  ;  the  medicine  administered  ;  and  that  all 
patients  requiring  careful  nursing  are  attended  to;  and  all  such  other 
duties  as  lilay  be  necessary :  one  wardmaster  for  each  ward  (estimating 
100  patients  for  e,ach  ward),  at  a  salai-y  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  dol- 
lars per  month  each;  and  such  other  nurses  and  cooks,  male  or  female 
(giving  preference  to  females  when  their  services  may  best  subserve  the 
purpose),  at  a  salary  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  dollars  per  month  each, 
as  may  be  necessary  for  the  proper  care  of  the  sick.  These  attendants 
to  bo  paid  monthly,  on  hospital  muster-rolls,  by  the  Quartermaster's 
department,  and  to  be  removed  when  expedient  by  the  medical  officer 
in  charge.  Other  attendants  not  herein  provided  for,  necessary  to  the 
service,  shall  be  allowed  as  now  provided  by  law. 

9.  If  a  sufficient  number  of  nurses  and  wardmasters  not  liable  to 
military  service  can  not  be  employed,  and  it  shall  become  necessary  to 
assign  to  this  duty  soldiers  in  the  service,  then,  upon  the  requisition  of 
tho  medical  officer  in  charge  of  a  hospital,  tho  soldiers  so  assigned  who 
are  skilful  and  competent  shall  be  permanently  detailed  to  this  duty, 
and  shall  only.be  removable  for  neglect  or  inattention,  by  the  medical 
officer  in  charge. 


10.  Hospitals  will  be  kuowu  a.nd  numbered  as  hospitals  ul'  a  par- 
ticular state.  The  sick  aud  wounded,  when  not  injurious  to  themselves 
or  greatly  inconvenient  to  the  itervice,  will  bo  sent  to  the  hospitals 
representing  their  respective  ("tates?,  am',  to  privato  or  state  hospitalii 
representing  the  same. 

11.  The  Quartermaster- General  will  have  arrangements  made  with 
the  railroad  companies  to  reserve  seats  in  one  or  more  cars,  as  may  lie 
necessary,  for  the  ujie  of  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  and  their 
attendants  to  be  transported  ;  and  until  they  .are  seated  to  prevent 
other  persons  from  entering  thoue  reserved  ears;  and  alr-o  to  require 
conductors  of  the  trains  to  provide  for  the  use  of  the  sick  and  wounded, 
in  the  reserved  ears  a  .sufficient  quantity  of  pure  water. 

12.  Medical  oflficcr.><  in  charge  of  Imspitals  will  detail  an  attendant  to 
accompany  the  sick  and  wounded,  furloughed,  discharged,  or  trans- 
ferred, to  railroad  depc)ts,  to  see  that  they  are  cared  for  and  provided 
with  seats  in  the  reserved  cars. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiitonl  lotfi  Juiptrtor-h'cnfrtil. 


OKNKRAIi  ORDKRS. )  .Vdjut.vst  *sb  l.ssi'ECXon-tiKXRRAi's  Offick, 

No.  90.  )  UiCHM0N-i>.  Ji'ovemher  27.  1S62. 

Command.'ints  of  conscripts  will  cause  the  following  order  to  be  pub- 
lished for  at  least  seven  times  in  a  sutlicieut  number  of  newspapers  in 
eaoh  state  of  the  Confederacy  to  insure  its  reaching  every  part  of  the 
country  : 

I.. All  commissioned  olFicers  and  enlisted  men  who  are  now  ab.-icnt 
from  their  commands  from  any  other  cause  than  actual  disability,  or 
duty  under  orders  from  the  Secretary  of  War,  or  from  their  department 
commanders,  will  return  to  their  commands  without  ilolay. 

II.  .Commissioned  officers  failing  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
the  foregoing  paragraph  within  a  reasonable  length  of  time,  in  no  case 
to  exceed  twenty  days  after  the  publication  of  this  order,  shall  be 
dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the  army  in  disgrace,  and  their  names  will  be 
furnished  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for  enrolment  in  the  rank.i. 

III.  .All  enlisted  men  who  shall  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
paragraph  I  of  this  order,  within  a  reasonable  length  of  time,  shall  bo 
considered  as  depertors,  and  treated  accordingly  :    their  names  to  be 


J  40 

furnished  to  tbe  commandant  of  conscripts  in  their  state  for  publication, 
or  such  other  action  as  maybe  deemed  most  efficacious. 

IV.  .In  order  to  insure  the  efficient  co-operation  of  all  concerned  to 
carry  this  order  into  immediate  effect,  department  commanders  are 
directed  to  require  from  the  commanding  officer  of  each  separate  com- 
mand in  their  departments  a  prompt  report  of  the  names  of  all  com- 
missioned officers  and  enlisted  men  now  absent  from  their  commands. 
These  reports  must  state  in  each  case  the  cause  of  absence  ;  and  any 
regimental,  battalion,  or  company  commander  who  shall  neglect  to 
furnish  such  a  report,  or  who  shall  knowingly  be  guilty  of  concealing 
any  case  of  unauthorized  absence  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  sum- 
marily dismissed. 

V.  .Under  the  provisions  of  the  2d  clause  of  paragraph  II  of  General 
Orders,  No.  82,  commissioned  officers  and  privates  who  are  incapable 
of  bearing  arms  in  consequence  of  wounds  received  in  battle,  but  who 
arc  otherwise  fit  for  service,  are  required,  if  not  otherwise  assigned,  to 
report  to  the  nearest  commandant  of  conscripts  in  their  respective 
states,  who  will,  if  they  are  fitted  for  such  duty,  assign  them  to  the 
collection  of  stragglers  and  the  enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  this 
order,  with  full  powers  to  call  upijn  the  nearest  military  authority  for 
such  assistance  as  may  be  necessary  thereto. 

VI.. Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  charged  with  pay- 
ment of  troops  are  hereby  directed  not  to  pay  any  commissioned  officer, 
non-commissioned  officer,  or  private  who  does  not  furnish  satisfactory 
evidence  that  he  is  not  liable  to  the  penalties  described  in  the  fore- 
going order.  Any  disbursing  officer  who  shall  make  payment  in 
violation  of  this  order  shall  be  liable  on  his  bond  for  the  amount  of 
such  payment. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiilaitt  (luil  Iiinjjeclor-Genernl. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,'!  Ad.tutam  and  I.nspector-Genebal's  Office, 

No.  97.  \  Richmond,  Dccemhtr  1, 1862. 

I.. Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  are  expressly  pro- 
hibited from  visiting  the  seat  of  government  for  the  purpose  of  obtain- 
ing supplies.  The  usual  mode  of  effecting  these  objects,  by  requisition, 
is  deemed  isufficient;  and  no  deviation  from  tbe  established  rules  of 


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the  service  in  this  respect  ■will  be  permitted,  without  the  previous 
sanction  of  the  Quartermaster-General,  obtained  through  the  regular 
channel  of  communication. 

II..OflRcers    and    agents   of    the    Quartermaster's    deportment    are 
hereby  ordered   not  to  interfere  with   leather  purchased  or  contracted 
for  by  officers  or  agents  of  the  Ordnance  department. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Afl'pilniil  and  Inupprtor-Gviicrnl. 


GENERAL  ORDKKS."|  '    AnjUTANT  ant)  Inspeutoii-Gexeral's  OfriCE, 

No.  98.  j  RiCHMO.vn,  i)ecen^«r  3, 1862. 

Colonel  William  M.  W.\di.kv,  Assistant  Adjutant-General,  is  hereby 
specially  assigned  to  take  supervision  and  control  of  the  transportation 
for  the  government  on  all  the  railroads  in  the  Confederate  States. 

1.  IIo  is  empowered  to  make  contracts  for  transportation  with  said 
railroads,  or  any  of  them,  and  such  negotiation  and  arrangements  with 
them  as  may  he  requisite  or  proper  to  secure  efficiency,  harmony,  and 
co-operation  on  the  pjjrt  of  said  railroads,  or  any  proper  number  of 
them,  in  carrying  on  the  transportation  of  the  government. 

2.  He  will  take  direction  of  all  agents  or  employees  engaged  by  the 
government  in  connection  with  railroad  transportation  ;  will  retain, 
engage,  or  dismiss  such  as  may  be  requisite,  and  take  charge  of  and 
employ  all  engines,  machinery,  tools,  or  other  property  of  the  govern- 
ment owned  or  used  for  railroad  transportation  ;  and  may  exchange, 
sell,  or  loan  such  machinery  with  or  to  any  railroad  company,  to 
facilitate  the  work  of  transportation  ;  and  may  generally  assist  and 
co-operate  with  the  railroads  in  effecting  the  work  of  transportation. 

3.  The  better  to  accomplish  such  ends,  he  may  reijuirc  co-operation 
and  assistance  to  such  au  extent  as  can  be  reasonably  granted  by  the 
Quartermaster  and  Commissary  bureaus ;  and  may  apply  for  details 
from  the  army,  of  such  artisans,  mechanics,  and  workmen  as  may  be 
necessarj'  to  facilitate  the  duo  accomplishment  of  his  duties. 

4.  He  will  r^eport,  through  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  to 
the  Secretary  of  War. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjiitfint  and  InHpector-Geitfral. 


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GENERAL  ORDEUS,]  AnJUTiNT  a\d  1nspector-0£keral'8  OrncE. 

No.  99.  j  RiCHMOMD,  Uecemher  5, 1862. 

The  Superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau  is  authorized 
and  directed  to  press  the  home  production  of  nitre  from  plantation  and 
domestic  sources. 

Where  indispensable,  the  labor  of  conscripts  is  authorized  in  interior 
districts,  and  details  will  continue  to  be  made  as  at  present;  but  officers 
and  agents  of  the  bureau  will  exercise  especial  caution  to  use  this  labor 
as  a  last  resort. 

Resignations  in  the  nitre  and  raining  corps  must  bo  placed  upon 
the  same  footing  with  resignations  in  the  line  in  front  of  the  enemy. 
Faithfully  executed,  this  service  is  second  to  no  other  engaged  in  the 
public  defence. 

Bj'  order. 

S.  COOPER. 

b 

Adjutant  and  Iimpector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDEKS,")  Adjutant  axi>  Inspkctor-Oenebal's  Office, 

No.  TOO.  j  RiCHMJND,  DccemliKr  8.  1862. 

I.. The  following  act,  and  regulations  in  reference  thereto,  are  pub- 
lished for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 

All  act  to  repeal  the  law  authorizing\!vmmntation  for  Soldiers'  Clothivg, 
and  to  require  Clothing  to  be  fnrninhcd  by  the  Secretary  of  War  in  kind. 

The  Congress  of  the  Omfeckrate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  so  mucli  of  the 
existing  law  as  pioviiles  commutation  for  clothing  to  tha  soldiers  in  the  service  of 
the  Confederacy  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed;  and  horeafter  the  Secretary 
of  War  shall  provide  in  kind  to  the  soldiere  respectively  the  uiiifonu  clothing 
prescribed  by  the  Regulations  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States.  And  should 
any  balance  of  clothing  be  due  to  the  soldier  at  the  end  of  the  year,  the  money 
value  of  such  balance  shall  be  paid  to  such  soldier,  according  to  the  value  of  such 
clothing,  fixed  and  announced  by  order  of  the  War  department.  [Approved 
Octobers.  1S62.] 

II.. In  accordance  with  the  above  act  of  Congress,  no  p.ayment  of 
commutation  for  clothing  will  be  made  for  a  period  extending  beyond 
October  8,  1S62.  When  payment  of  said  allowance  has  been  made 
prior  to  the  promulgation  of  this  order  for  a  term  which  will  not 
expire  until  after  the  date  of  this  act,  issues  of  clothing  in  kind  will 
be  made,  to  commence  at  the  end  of  such  period.  Where  it  has  not 
been  so  paid,  clothing  will  be  furnished  from  the  8th  October,  1862. 


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III.  .A  soldier  is  allowed  the  uniform  clothing  stated  in  the  following 
Ublc,  or  articles  thereof  of  equal  value.  When  a  balance  is  due  him 
at  the  end  of  the  year,  he  will  be  allowed  the  money  value  thereof,  as 
herein  set  forth  :*  to  be  paid  him  upon  the  muster  and  pay-roll  of  his 
compauy.  When  he  shall  have  drawn  clothing  in  excess  of  the  amount 
allowed,  it  will  be  charged  against  him  upon  the  muster  and  pay  roll 
of  his  company.  If  di.^charged  before  the  e.K])iration  of  the  year,  and 
he  shall  not  have  been  furnished  with  clothing  in  kind,  or  pai<l  com- 
mutation thereof  for  the  period  of  service  rendered  since  the  Stb 
October,  1S62,  he  will  l)e  entitled  to  receive  the  money  value  of  the 
clothing  allowed,  in  proportion  to  such  period  of  service. 


CLOTHING. 


FOR  TnRKE  TEARS. 


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Trowsers 

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ShoeH,  pairs ".. 

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Stnblc-frock  (Cor  inoiintcd  men) 

Futijrue  overall  (for  engineers  and  ordnance)  , 
Blanket 


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IV.  .When  clothing  is  needed  for  issue  to  the  men,  the  company  com- 
mander will  procure  it  from  the  quartermaster  on  requisition  approved 
by  the  commanding  officer. 

v.. Ordinarily,  the  comp.any  commander  will  procure  and  issue 
clothing  to  his  men  twice  a  year.  At  other  times,  in  special  cases, 
such  articles  as  the  soldier  may  need  will  be  issued  to  him. 

VI.. Officers  receiving  clothing  will  render  quarterly  returns  to  the 
Quartermaster-General. 

VII.. Commanders  of  companies  will  take  the  receipts  of  their  men 
for  the  clothing  issued  to  them,  on  a  receipt-roll,  witnessed  by  an  officer, 
or,  in  the  absence  of  an  officer,  by  a  non-commissioned  officer;  the 
witness  to  be  witness  to  the  fact  of  the  issue  and  the  acknowledgment 
and  signature  of  the  soldier.  The  several  issues  to  a  soldier  to  bo 
entered  separately  on  the  roll,  and  all  vacant  spaces  on  the  roll  to  be 
filled  with  a  cipher.     The  roll  U  the  voucher  for  the  i.ssue  to  the  quar- 


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terly  return  of  the  company  commander.     Extra  issues  will  be  so  noted 
on  the  roll. 

VIII-.Each  soldier's  clothing  account  is  kept  by  the  company  com- 
mander in  a  company  book.  This  account  sets  out  only  the  money 
value  of  the  clothing  which  he  received  at  each  issue,  for  which  his 
receipt  is  entered  in  the  book,  and  witnessed  as  in  the  preceding  para- 
graph. 

IX.  .When  a  soldier  is  transferred  or  detached,  the  amount  due  to  or 
by  him  for  clothiug  will  be  stated  on  his  descriptive  list. 

X.  .When  a  soldier  is  discharged,  the  amount  due  to  or  by  him  for 
clothiug  will  be  stated  on  the  duplicate  certificates  given  for  the  settle- 
ment of  his  accounts.  > 

XI.  .Deserters'  clothing  will  be  turned  into  store.  The  invoice  of  it, 
and  the  quartermaster's  receipt  for  it,  will  state  its  condition,  and  the 
name  of  the  deserter. 

XII.. The  inspection  report  on  damaged  clothing  shall  set  out,  with 
the  amount  of  damage  of  each  article,  a  list  of  such  articles  as  are  fit 
for  issue,  at  a  reduced  price  stated. 

XIII.  .Commanding  officers  may  order  necessary  issues  of  clothing 
to  prisoners  and  convicts,  taking  deserters'  or  other  damaged  clothing, 
when  there  is  such  in  store. 

XIV.  .In  all  cases  of  deficiency,  or  damage  of  any  article  of  clothing 
or  camp  or  garrison  equipage,  the  officer  accountable  for  the  property 
is  required  by  law  to  show  by  one  or  more  depositions  setting  forth  the 
circumstances  of  the  case  that  the  deficiency  was  by  unavoidable 
accident  or  loss  in  actual  service,  without  any  fault  on  his  part,  and  in 
case  of  damage,  that  due  care  and  attention  were  exerted  on  his  part, 
and  that  the  damage  did  not  result  from  neglect. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inapector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  101.  f  Richmond,  December  9, 1862. 

I.. Clause  I,  paragraph  "VI,   General   Orders,  No.  82,  current  series, 
is  80  amended  as  to  provide  that  one  of  the  three  surgeons  for  each 


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congressional  district  shall  be  a  medical  oCScer  of  the  army,  and  that 
the  two  others  (to  be  recommended  by  the  commandant  of  conscript? 
to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral)  shall  be  selected  from  con- 
gressional districts  different  from  that  in  which  they  are  to  examint- 
I'onscripts. 

II. .  As  in  the  case  of  "barrels  and  sacks,"  officers  of  the  Subsistcrict 
department  receiving  beeves  will  deliver  to  the  commissaries  from 
whom  they  draw  supplies  a  like  number  of  hides.  The  issuing  com- 
missary win  tranpfer  them  to  the  quartermaster  charged  with  their  ccl 
lection. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjut<xnt  tiiid  Intpector-Gcnirul. 


(jENKRAL  ORDERS.  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneiul's  Ovnar.. 

No.  102.  f  Richmond,  December  10,  1862. 

The  sentence  of  dismissal  pronounced  in  Special  Orders,  No.  4. 
Head-quarters  of  the  Department  of  Mississippi,  September  4,  1862. 
against  2d  Lieutenant  W.  AV.  Dunlop,  C.  S.  A.,  and  approved  by  Gen- 
eral Bragg,  is  by  direction  of  the  President  commuted,  so  as  to  require 
of  Lieutenant  Dunlop  a  written  apology  to  his  Commanding  General 
for  the  disrespect  exhibited  in  the  disobedience  of  orders  complained 
of,  and  the  language  employed  by  him  on  that  occasion. 

The  President  is  thus  lenient  toward  Lieutenant  Dunlop  in  consid- 
eration of  his  youth  and  inexperience  and  the  pledges  which  he  ha? 
given  of  amendment:  but  the  conduct  of  this  officer  must  be  remarked 
on  as  both  unb.'ooming  in  itself,  and  calculated  to  degrade  his  pro- 
fession. 

Upon   making   the   required   apology.    Lieutenant   Dunlop    will    be 
restored  to  the  pervice,  and  will  report  for  duty  to  General  Bragg. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- Gentr  at - 


liENERAL  ORDERS. ~j  Adjutasi, ASD  I.nspbctor-Generals  OincE. 

No.  103.  /  Richmond,  December  12, 1862. 

I.. At  a  Court  of  Inquiry,  convened  at  Camp  French,  near  Peters- 
burg, Virginia,  by   virtue  of  Special   Orders,  No.  31,  Pettigrew'g  bri- 
gade, October  2,  1862,  and  by  authority  of  the  act  of  April  21,  1862. 
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was  lirraigncd  ami  tried  Lieutenant  Calviu  Dit-kerson,  Company  B, 
26th  North  Carolipa  volunteers,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  charge  of  "  drunk- 
enness "  while  on  the  march  from  Black  creek  to  Petersburg. 

II.  .The  court  having  found  the  accused  guilty,  as  charged,  and  the 
proceedings  and  findings  in  the  case  having  been  submitted  to  the 
Secretarj'  of  War,  and  by  him  laid  before  the  President,  he  approves 
the  findings  of  the  court,  <and  directs  that  the  said  Lieutenant  Calvin 
Dickerson,  Company  B,  26th  North  Carolina  volunteers,  P.  A.  C.  S., 
be  therefore  dismissed  the  service.  Lieutenant  Dickerson  accordingly 
ceases  to  be  an  ofiBcer  of  the  Provisional  army  of  the  Confederate 
States  from  this  date. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


(lENERAL  ORDERS, ~|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  104.  J  Richmond,  December  13, 1862.    ' 

I.  .Encampments  of  troops  near  towns  and  villages  must  be  avoided 
where  it  is  not  indispensable.  Whenever  it  is  so,  a  sufiicient  force  for 
o;uards  and  outposts  must  be  selected  fuom  the  best  disciplined  troops, 
.i,nd  assigned  as  a  garrison,  etc. :  and  officers  and  men  will  not  be  per- 
mitted to  enter  the  town  or  village,  except  on  written  permission  of  the 
commanding  officer. 

II.  .Arms  must  not  be  carried  from  the  camp,  nor  will  mounted  men 
in  camp  be  permitted  to  ride  their  horses  except  upon  duty. 

III.  .Private  property  is  invariably  to  be  respected,  and  must  not  be 
taken  or  used,  except  when  indispensable  for  the  public  service,  and 
then  only  by  orders  of  competent  authority,  and  in  the  manner  pointed 
out  in  the  Army  Regulations  and  orders  of  the  Quartermaster  and 
Commissary  departments. 

IV.  .The  reckless  destruction  of  fencing,  wood,  and  other  property  of 
the  citizens,  which  has  occurred  in  so  many  instances,  can  not  be  too 
strongly  condemned.  Commanders  of  troops  of  whatever  grade  should, 
by  the  exercise  of  diligence  and  strict  discipline,  endeavor  to  prevent 
such  results,  entailing,  as  they  will,  poverty  upon  individuals,  and  use- 
less expense  on  the  government.     Fencing  ought  not  to  be  disturbed 


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where  it  can  possibly  be  avoided ;  and  wben  wood  is  necessarj'  for  the 
public  use,  that  which  is  least  valuable  must  be  selected,  with  as  little 
waste  as  practicable. 

V.  .A  careful  observance  of  these  orders  is  enjoined  on  the  army  as 
of  the  first  importance  to  the  public  interests.  All  violations  of  them 
are  directed  to  be  reporte<l  to  the  proper  authi)rity,  fur  such  punishment 
as  may  be  requisite. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Affjiitniii  find  ftmpector-Geiierfif. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,']  ADJUTiST  and  Isspector-Oeneral's  Office. 

No.  105.  j  KiCHMOND,  December  15.  1862. 

I.. Some  confusion  havinj^  occurred  in  the  payment  of  troops  in 
hospital,  as  authorized  in  paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No'.  65,  modi- 
fied by  paragraph  I,  Ueneral  Orders,  No.  67,  and  by  paragraph  II, 
general  Orders,  No.  68,  it  is  hereby  directed  that  the  orders  above 
Teferred  to  be  so  limited  as  to  embrace  only  the  monthly  pay  of  the 
soldier  mustered  on  the  hospital  rolls;  and  all  quartermasters  making 
payments  to  troops  referred  to  in  said  orders  are  required  regularly  to 
forward,  through  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  ofl5ce,  to  the 
company  commanders  of  such  troops  (to  be  noted  on  the  company 
rolls)  an  accurate  list  of  the  persons  and  amounts  so  paid,  and  the 
particular  time  for  which  such  payments  Lave  been  made. 

II.. No  transportation  tickets  will  be  issued  except  when  the  appli- 
cant presents  conclusive  evidence  that  be  has  proper  authority  for  his 
absence  from  his  command,  and  is  entitled  to  transportation.  A 
register  will  be  kept  in  the  transportation  office,  upon  which  the  name 
of  the  applicant  for  transportation,  and  the  authority  upon  which 
transportation  is  given,  will  be  recorded  in  every  case.  Every  precau- 
tion will  be  taken  against  imposition  and  fraud;  and  whenever  such 
fraud  or  imposition  is  detected,  it  will  be  immediately  reported  to  the 
proper  authorities. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Insjyector-General. 


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GKNKRAL  ORDERS. ~|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  OrriCE. 

No.  106.  J  Richmond,  December  15.  1862. 

I..  A  Court  of  Inquiry  having  been  couveucd,  November  14,  18fi2,  :it 
Kichinond,  Va.,  by  direction  of  the  President,  and  under  Special  Orders, 
No.  265,  paragraph  XXXV,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Generars 
office,  "to  report  upon  the  charge  of  fraud  and  peculation  against  an 
officer  iu  the  Bureau  of  the  Commissary-General,  which  appeared  in  an 
editorial  of  the  Richmond  E.raminer  of  October  20,  1862,  entitled  'The 
Commigsari/  Department :  hoti)  purchaaen  are  made;'"  and  having  made 
the  required  examination  and  report,  the  result  is,  by  direction  of 
the  President,  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

Findings  of  the  Court. 

II.. The  court,  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced, 
finds  the  following  facts  proved: 

1.  That  by  the  Revenue  laws  of  the  State  of  Virginia  a  license  i? 
required  to  be  taken  out  by  cattle  dealers ;  and  every  person  who  buys 
to  sell  again  must  either  take  out  such  license  himself,  or  employ  the 
s-ervices  of  a  cattle  dealer,  who  is,  of  course,  entitled  to  the  customary 
compensation  for  his  services.  g 

2.  That  the  cattle  in  this  case  were  consigned  for  sale  to  Mr.  John  (J. 
Moffit,  a  licensed  cattle  dealer  iu  the  City  of  Richmond. 

H.  That  Mr.  John  G.  Moffit  was  in  the  employment  of  the  Commis- 
!4ary  department,  to  make  purchases  for  its  use,  at  a  regular  stated 
salary. 

4.  That  the  sale  was  made  to  the  Commissary  department  through 
Mr.  .John  G.  Moffit,  the  parties  being  full}'  apprised  of  his  relation  to 
the  department  in  the  transaction  of  the  29tb  July,  1862. 

5.  That  before  the  sale,  and  while  the  cattle  were  still  in  the  hands 
of  the  owners,  Mr.  Jonathan  H.  Haymond  was  informed  by  Mr.  Moffit, 
in  answer  to  a  suggestion  made  by  him,  that  the  usual  commission  of 
one  dollar  per  head,  and  one  per  centum  on  the  amount  of  sale,  would 
be  deducted  from  the  gross  price  of  the  cattle,  and  would  be  retained 
by  the  government  for  its  own  benefit. 

6.  That  on  the  30th  July,  1862,  the  parties  met  at  the  office  of  the 
Com'missary-Geueral  in  this  city,  to  make  the  settlement  and  receive 
their  money  —  when  the  settlement  was  made,  showing  the  number  of 
cattle  and  the  gross  amount  of  purchase  money,  from  which  the  com- 
missions, amounting  to  one  hundred  and  ninety  dollars  and  thirty-nine 
cents  {$\dO  "^),  wei-e  deducted  as  a  credit  to  the  government,  and  the 
net  balance,  amounting  to  nine  thousand  six  hundred  and  forty-niiye 


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dollars  and  one  cent  ($9,040  01),  was  paid  to  the  owner.-:  for  which 
amount,  and  that  only,  a  receipt  was  taken. 

7.  That  the  commission  of  one  hundred  and  ninety  dollars  and  thirty- 
nine  cents  ($190  39)  enured  to  the  benefit  of  the  governmont,  and  not 
to  that  of  any  of  its  employees. 

8.  That  all  of  the  parties  interested  in  the  cattle  were  entirely  .^ati-ified 
with  the  propriety  of  the  deduction,  and  yielded  a  cheerful  acquie.scenoe 
thereto,  except  Mr.  Haymond.  who  did  not  attend  at  the  time  of  settle- 
ment, or  make  known  h\i  objection  to  any  one  in  the  Commissary 
department,  until,  on  the  Saturday  precediuj;  the  20th  December.  1S62, 
ho  applied  to  the  Commissary-CJoncral,  when,  not  being  satisfied  with 
the  result  of  his  interview,  he  complained  to  the  associate  editor  of  the 
Richmond  Examiner. 

9.  That  there  is  no  fact  or  circumstance  disclosed  or  sugge.ited,  tend- 
ing to  show  any  fraud  or  peculation  committed  or  attempted,  but  on 
the  contrary,  that  great  and  exemplary  zeal  and  devotion  to  the  public 
service  were  evinced  by  all  the  officers  and  employees  of 'the  Commis- 
sary department. 

III.  .The  court,  having  accomplished  the  business  before  it.  is  hereby 
dissolved.' 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjxitnvt  and  Tnspectov-Genr.ral. 


OENKKAL  ORDEH.S-I  Adjutam  and  Inspector-Oenkral's  Ofmok, 

No.  107.  )  UiCHMOND,  Decmber  17,  186i 

I.  .Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  72,  current  series,  is  modilieii 
as  follows : 

Medical  officers  referred  to  in  said  order  will  not  hereafter  issue 
certificates  for  furloughs,  except  when  the  health  of  the  soldier  requires 
his  removal,  <ir  a  change  of  climate;  and  in  all  such  cases  this  laot 
must  be  distinctly  stated  in  the  surgeon's  certificate. 

II.  .Whenever,  in  the  opinion  of  the  commanding  officer  of  a  mili- 
tary department,  the  object  of  the  fourth  paragraph  of  General  Orders, 
No.  72,  has  been  for  the  time  being  accomplished,  by  sufficiently  re- 
ducing the  number  in  hospital,  he  may  suspend  the  sessions  of  the 
medical  boards  until  the  condition  of  the  sick  and  wounded  renders  it 
expedient  to  reassemble  said  boards. 


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III. .  Officers  cbarged  with  the  iluty  of  enrolling  conscripts  are  hereby 
instructed  that  the  resignation  of  officers  does  not,  of  itself,  exempt  the 
party  resigning  from  the  provisions  of  the  Conscript  law.  All  such  per- 
sons are  subject  to  enrolment  and  examination  in  common  with  other 
parties  of  conscript  age. 

IV.  .Lieutenant-Colonel  Smith  Stansbury  is  hereby  detailed  for  the 
same  duty  as  that  assigned  in  paragraph  III.  General  Orders,  No.  80, 
current  series,  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  W.  Lerov  Broun,  and  he  will 
proceed  immediately  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  to  Mobile,  Ala.,  for  the 
purpose  of  e.\amining  candidates  for  appointments  as  artillery  oflBeers 
for  ordnance  duty,  under  the  act  of  Congress  approved  September  l(i, 
1862. 

The  Generals  comma»din<j  at  those  points  will,  on  his  application^ 
associate  with  him  any  two  artillery  officers  performing  ordnance  duties 
he  may  select,  who,  together  with  himself,  will  constitute  an  Examining 
Board. 

Due  notice  will  be  given  thi'ough  the  local  papers  of  the  time  at 
which  examinations  will  be  held. 

Applications  for  permission  to  be  examined  will  be  made,  as  per 
General  Orders,  No.  80,  to  the  General  commanding. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  hispectur-Geiierul. 


GENKRAL  ORDERS. "J  ADJUT.iNT  and  I.vspector-Gsn'erals  Office. 

No.  108.  j  Richmond,  December  IS,  1862. 

I.. At  a  Court  of  Inquiry,  convened  at  Staunton,  Va.,  December  '^. 
1862,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  278,  paragraph  XIX.  from  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  Richmond,  to  examine  and 
repori  upon  certain  charges  and  imputations  against  Colonel  M.  G. 
Harm  AN,  52d  Virginia  volunteers,  respecting  his  conduct  while  acting 
as  quartermaster  at  Staunton,  Virginia,  and  also  as  enrolling  officer  at 
the  same  place,  the  following  report  and  finding  of  facts  were  duly 
made,  and  are  now  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

II..IlErORT    AND    FlNDING.S    OF    THE    CoUKT. 

The  court,  *  ••■  *  having  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  re- 
spectfully reports,  that  immediately  after  its  organization  the  Recorder 
addressed  a  note  to  the  Hon.  A.  H.  H.  Stuart,  requesting  an  interview 


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• 

for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  specific  information  upon  the  subject  of 
its  inquiry.  The  interview  was  declined,  but  the  desired  iaformation 
was  set  forth  in  a  letter  from  that  gentleman,  which  was  in  part  adopted 
by  the  court  as  a  basis  of  its  investigation.  This  communication,  t'- 
which  special  reference  is  here  made,  appears  in  the  records,  beginninp 
at  page  3.  ^ 

The  court  dccliued  to  receive  any  testimony  upon  points  not  affecting 
Colonel  }Iaiiman  its  quartermaster  and  enrolling  officer  at  Stauntoti. 
although  evidence  was  tendered  by  him  to  overthrow  everj'  imputation 
brought  to  the  knowledge  of  the  court.  It  will  be  perceived,  upon 
inspecting  the  record,  that  several  of  these  alleged  improprieties  refer 
to  a  period  when  Colonel  Harma.v  was  not  in  the  service  of  the  Con- 
federate St.ites,  and  were  not,  therefore,  questions  within  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  court. 

In  the  4th  specification  of  rumors  contained  in  Mr.  Stuart's  letter 
to  the  court  it  is  .asserted  that  Colonel  IIatiman  sold  hay,  pasturage, 
corn,  and  wood  t.o  the  government,  and  employed  government  t*ams  in 
hauling  the  wood  and  hay,  contrarj'  to  the  9(i.jd  regulation.  The  proof, 
however,  shows  that  these  articles  were  purchased  by  Captain  Peyton. 
a  quartermaster  at  .'^taunton,  at  lower  rntes  than  could  be  had  else- 
wl|erc.  It  was  also  proven  that  a  few  loads  of  wood  were  hauled  by 
the  governraeni  teams,  at  the  instance  of  Captain  Pkvto.v,  to  relieve 
the  immediate  wants  of  the  government,  and  without  the  knowleJce  or 
consent  of  Colonel  Harman.  These  facts  do  not,  in  the  judgment  ot 
the  court,  constitute  a  violation  of  the  regulations  above  cited;  but 
whatevei'  constrnction  m.iy  prevail  upon  this  point,  the  court  is  satisfied 
that  the  transaction  was  without  fraud,  to  the  interest  of  the  govern- 
ment, and  unworthy  of  further  consideration. 

The  court  was  unable  to  procure  the  least  evidence  in  support  of  any 
other  charge  than  tJM  one  just  disposed  of,  although  every  person  men- 
tioned by  Mr.  Stuart  as  likely  to  possess  information  was  examined. 
except  when  the  person  disclaimed  such  knowledge  after  appearing 
before  the  court  in  obedience  to  its  summons. 

The  record  will  also  show  that  diligent  but  fruitless  efforts  were 
made  to  obtain  information  from  other  sources  than  those  suggested  by 
Mr.  Stuart  :  and  it  is  but  just  to  state  that  every  facility  that  the 
defence  could  render  to  help  forward  the  investigation  was  promptly 
and  cheerfully  accorded. 

In  the  opinion  of  the  court,  Colonel  Hakjian  has  discharged  the 
responsible  duties  devolved  upon  him  with  a  /.eal,  fidelity,  and  intelli- 
gence rarely  observed.  His  official  conduct  in  those  departments  of 
the  service  respecting  which  it  has  been  the  duty  of  the  court  to  inves- 


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Ugate  furnishes  an  example  worthy  of  all  imitution,  aliiie  creditable  to 
himaelf  and  advantageous  to  the  government. 

III.. The  above-named  Court  of  Inquiry,  in  the  case  of  Colonel  M. 
Q.  Harman,  52d  Virginia  volunteers,  is  hereby  dissolved. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjufant  and  rnsprcfor-OenernL 


ilENERAL  ORDERS.")  Adjutant  and  In3pector-<}e!vep.ai,'s  Office, 

No.   109.  j  Richmond,  D/^mmber  20, 1862. 

I.. The  following  appointments  under  the  act  of  October  9,  1862, 
providing  for  the  appointment  of  military  courts  to  attend  the  army, 
have  been  made  by  the  President,  and  are  announced  for  the  informa- 
tion of  all  concerned: 

1.   Lieutenant- General  James  Luitgatreet'a  Corps. 

Charles  L.  Scott,  Alabama,  Presiding  .ludge. 

Albert  P.  Hill,  Mississippi. 

L.  W.  Spratt,  South  Carolina. 

Charles  M.  Blackford,  Virginia,  Judge  Advocate. 

2.   Lieutenunt-General  T.  J.  Jackson's  Oorpn. 

Richard  H.  Lee,  Virginia,  Presiding  Judge. 

James  Jackson,  Georgia. 

David  H.  Carter,  North  Carolina. 

Daniel  A.  Wilson.  Louisiana,  Judge  Adv^ate. 

3.    General  G.  T.  Beaureyard's  Corps. 

D.  F.  Jamison,  South  Carolina,  Presiding  Judge. 
L.  M.  Lamai',  Georgia. 

Captain  W.  C.  Bird  {1st  Florida  volunteers),  Florida. 
A.  H.  Boykin,  South  Carolina,  Judge  Advocate. 

4.  Lientenant-General  Leonidas  Polk'i  Corps. 

Andrew  Ewing,  Tennessee,  Presiding  Judge. 

Edward  S.  Worthington,  Kentucky. 

J.  A.  P.  Campbell,  Mississippi. 

Thomas  W.  Brown,  Tennessee,  Judge  Advocate. 


•I5» 

5.    LieutcnriDt-Cevcral  K.  K.  Smith's  Corp^. 

Thomas  Ruflin,  North  Carolina.  Prcsidiii!;  .Tuilge. 

James  Neil,  Tennessee. 

Charles  B.  Thomas,  Kentucky. 

Shelby  Williams.  Tennessee,  .Judge  Advocate. 

6.    Lieutenant-General  T.  11.  ,Holmei>'  tlovps. 

.Justin  Polk,  Missouri,  Presiding  Judge. 

George  C  Watkins,  Arkansas. 

Major  W.  P.  Townsond  (4th  To.xa8  volunteer.''),  Te.xa.^. 

liioncl  Tj.  TiCvy,  Louisiana,  .Judge  Advocate. 

7.     Mnjor-(feneral  John  H.  Forner/'n  ('oti>'<. 

Thomas  .].  Judge,  .\labaina,  Presiding  .Judge. 
S.  W.  Fisk,  Louisiana. 
Samuel  J.  Douglass,  Florida. 
J.  Little  Smith,  .Judge  Advocate. 

• 

S.   .Witjur-trenrrul  Stnniiel  Jones'  Vorp». 

Colonel  P.  T.  Moore,  Virginia,  Presiding  Judge. 

W.  IL  Norris,  Maryland. 

Colonel  A.  T.  M.  Rust,  Virginia. 

Septimus  T.  Wall,  liontueky,  Judge  Advocate. 

!).    .Ifajor-Gcneral  G.    W.  Smith's  Corpg. 

Wm.  I!.  Rodman,  North  Carolina,  Presiding  .Judge. 

-John  M.  Patton,  Virginia. 

Bradly  T.  .Johnson,  Maryland.  , 

W.  P.  Johnson,  Georgia,  Judge  Advocate. 

II.. The  above-named  mcmber.'i  of  the  courts  referred  to  will  report, 
without  delay  to  the  commanding  officers  of  the  respective  army  corps 
to  which  they  have  been  assigned,  to  whom  the  letters  of  appointment 
will  be  forwarded,  except  in  those  cases  where  they  have  been  de- 
livered to  the  parties,  or  may  be  called  for  at  this  office  at  an  i-arly 
day. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPKR, 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-Gwrral. 


154  « 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Atijupant  and  Inspeotor-Genekal's  Office. 

No.  110.  J  Richmond,  December  22. 1S62. 

I.. The  atteution  of  the  army  is  called  to  Geueral  Orders,  No.  52: 
from  this  office,  requiring  commanding  officers  to  report  the  facts  and 
circumstances  of  "  extraordinary  valor  and  skill"  displayed  by  officers 
and  soldiers,  which  may  entitle  them  to  recommendation  to  the  Presi- 
dent for  promotion  to  vacancies  in  their  companies,  as  provided  by  the 
act  of  April  21,  1862  ;  and  due  observance  of  said  order  is  enjoined  on 
all  concerned. 

II.. The  52d  Article  of  War  directs  that  "any  officer  or  soldier  vvb^ 
shall  misbehave  himself  before  the  enemy,  run  away,  or  shamefully 
abandon  any  fort,  post,  or  guard  which  he  or  they  may  be  commanded 
to  defend,  or  speak  words  inducing  others  to  do  the  like,  or  shall  casr 
away  his  arms  and  ammunition,  or  who  shall  quit  his  post  or  colors  t" 
plunder  and  pillage,  every  such  offender,  being  duly  convicted  thereof, 
shall  suffer  death,  or  such  other  punishment  as  shall  be  ordered  by  the 
sentCDce  of  a  general  court  martial." 

The  enforcement  of  the  foregoing  article  is  enjoined  on  all  officers 
and  non-commissioned  officers  of  the  army;  and  in  order  the«better  to 
carry  its  provisions  into  effect  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  all  com- 
jiany  commanders  to  see  that  the  company  roll  is  regularly  called 
before  and  after  each  battle  ;  and  to  arrest,  and,  whenever  proper, 
report  for  trial  by  court  martial  all  absentees  who  are  without  the 
requisite  excuse. 

The  number  of  the  Confederate  army  who  bring  disgrace  upon  it  by 

a  violation  of  the  article  a,bove  quoted  is  happily   small ;  and  it  is, 

therefore,  the  more  incumbent  that  their  disreputable  conduct  should  be 

exposed  and  punished,  and  the  fair  name  of  the  large  number  wh<i 

respect  its  honor  and  character  be  thus  publicly  vindicated. 

By  order. 
•  S.   COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENKRAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office. 

No.  111.  J  Richmond,  December  24,  1862. 

I.. The  following  proclamation  of  the  President  is  published  for  the 
infnrmation  and  guidance  of  all  concerned  therein  : 

liij  the  President  of  the  Confederate  Statefi — A  I'mclaination.   > 

'■  Whereas  a  communication  was  addressed,  on  the  6fh  day  of  July 
last  (18G2),  by  General  Robert  E.  Lee,  acting  under  the  instruction.' 


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of  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  to 
General  H.  W.  Halleck,  (ieneral-in-chief  of  the  United  States  army, 
informing  the  latter  that  a  report  had  reached  this  government  that 
Wm.  B.  Mumford,  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States,  had  been  ex- 
ecuted by  the  United  States;  authorities  at  New  Orleans  for  having 
pulled  down  the  United  States  flag  in  that  city  before  its  occupation  by 
the  forces  of  the  United  States,  and  calling  for  a  statement  of  the 
facts,  with  a  view  to  retaliation,  if  such  an  outrage  had  really  been 
committed  under  sanction  of  the  authorities  of  the  United  States  : 

'•And  whereas  (no  answer  having  been  received  to  said  letter) 
another  letter  was.  on  the  2d  August  last  (1862),  addressed  by  General 
Lee,  under  my  instrubtions,  to  General  Halleck,  renewing  the  inquiry 
in  relation  to  the  said  execution  of  said  Mumford.  with  the  information 
that  in  the  event  of  not  rccciviug  a  reply  within  fifteen  days  it  would 
be  assumed  that  the  fact  alleged  was  true,  and  was  sanctioned  by  the 
government  of  the  United  States  : 

"And  whereas  an  answer,  d.ated  on  the  7th  August  last  (1862),  waf 
addressed  to  General  Lee  by  General  II.  W.  Hailcck,  the  said  General- 
in-chief  of  the  armies  <>f  the  United  States,  alleging  suirieient  cause 
for  failure  to  make  early  reply  to  said  letter  of  6tli  July,  asserting 
that 'no  authentic  information  had  been  received  in  relation  to  the 
execution  of  Mumford,  but  measures  will  be  immediately  taken  t" 
ascertain  the  facts  of  the  alleged  cxecutinn,'  and  promising  that  Gen- 
eral Lee  should  be  duly  informed  thereof: 

"And  whereas  on  the  2flth  November  last  (1862)  another  letter  was 
addressed,  under  my  instructions,  by  Robert  Ould,  Confederate  agent 
for  the  exchange  of  prisoners,  under  the  cartel  between  the  two  govern- 
ments, to  Lieutenant-Colonel  W.  H.  Ludlow,  agent  of  the  United 
States  under  said  cartel,  informing  him  that  the  explan.ations  promised 
in  the  said  letter  of  General  Halleck,  of  7th  of  August  last,  had  -not 
yet  been  received,  and  that  if  no  answer  was  sent  to  the  government 
within  fifteen  days  from  the  delivery  of  this  last  communication,  it 
would  be  considered  that  an  answer  is  declined; 

"And  whereas,  by  letter  dated  on  the  third  day  of  the  present  month 
of  December,  the  said  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ludlow  apprised  the  said 
Robert  Ould  that  the  above-recited  communication  of  29(h  of  Novem- 
ber had  been  received  and  forwarded  to  the  Secretary  of  War  of  the 
United  States: 

"And  whereas  this  last  delay  of  fifteen  days  allowed  for  answer  has 
elapsed,  and  no  .answer  has  bacn  received  : 

"And  whereas,  in  addition  to  the  tacit  admission  resulting  from  the 
above  refusal  to  answer,  I  have  received  evidence  fully  establishing  the 
truth  of  the   fact  that  the  said  William  B.  Mumford,  a  citizen  of  this 


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Confederacy,  was  actually  and  publicly  executed  in  cold  blood  by 
hanging,  after  the  occupation  of  the  City  of  New  Orleans  by  the  forces' 
under  the  command  of  General  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  when  said  Mum- 
ford  was  an  unresisting  and  non-combatant  captive,  and  for  no  offence 
even  alleged  to  have  been  committed  by  him  subsequent  to  the  date  of 
the  capture  of  the  said  city : 

'•And  whereas  the  silence  of  the  Government  of  the  United  State*, 
and  its  maintaining  of  said  Butler  in  high  office  under  its  authority 
for  manjr  months  after  his  commission  of  an  act  that  can  be  viewed  in 
no  other  light  than  as  a  deliberate  murder,  as  well  as  of  numerous 
other  outrages  and  atrocities  hereafter  to  be  mentioned,  afiford  evidonco 
only  too  conclusive  that  the  said  government  sanctions  the  conduct  of 
said  Butler,  and  is  determined  that  he  shall  remain  unpunished  for  his 
crimes : 

'•Now,  therefore,  I,  Jefferson  Davis.  President  of  the  Confederate 
States  of  America,  and  in  their  name,  do  pronounce  and  declare  the 
said  Benjamin  F.  Butler  to  be  a  felon,  deserving  of  capital  punishment. 
I  do  order  that  he  be  no  longer  considered  or  treated  simply  as  a  public 
enemy  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  but  as  an  outlaw  and 
common  enemy  of  mankind,  and  that  in  the  event  of  his  capture,  the 
officer  in  command  of  the  capturing  force  do  cause  him  to  be  imme- 
diately executed  by  hanging;  and  I  do  further  order  that  no  commis- 
sioned officer  of  the  United  States,  taken  captive,  shall  be  released  on 
parole  before  exchange,  until  the  aaid  Butler  shall  have  met  with  due 
punishment  for  his  crimes  : 

"And  whereas  the  hostilities  waged  against  this  Confederacy  by  the 
forces  of  the  United  States  under  the  command  of  said  Benjamin  F. 
Butler  have  borne  no  resemblance  to  such  warfare  as  is  alone  permis- 
sible by  the  rules  of  international  law  or  the  usages  of  civilization,  but 
have  been  characterized  by  repeated  atrocities  and  outrages,  among 
the  large  number  of  which  the  following  may  be  cited  as  examples  : 

"  Peaceful  and  aged  citizens,  unresisting  captives,  and  non-combat- 
ants have  been  confined  at  hard  labor,  with  balls  and  chains  attached 
to  their  limbs,  and  are  still  so  held  in  dungeons  and  fortresses.  Others 
have  been  subjected  to  a  like  degrading  punishment  for  selling  medi- 
cines to  the  sick  soldiers  of  the  Confederacy. 

"  The  soldiers  of  the  United  States  have  been  invited  and  encour- 
aged by  general  orders  to  insult  and  outrage  the  wives,  the  mothers, 
and  the  sisters  of  our  citizens. 

"Helpless  women  have  been  torn  from  their  homes  and  subjected  to 

solitary  confinement,   some  in  fortresses  and  prisons,  and  one,  espe- 

.  cially,  on   an  island  of  barren  sand,  under  a  tropical  sun  ;  have  been 


15T 

fed  with  loathsome  rations  that  bad  been  condemned  a?  unfit  for  ?ol- 
diers,  and  have  been  exposed  to  the  vilest  insults. 

"Prisoners  of  war.who  surreuiiered  to  the  naval  forces  of  the  United 
Stat«K,  on  agreement  that  they  sliould  be  released  on  parole,  have  been 
seized  and  kept  in  close  confinemont. 

"  Repeated  pretexts  have  been  sought  or  invented  for  plundering  the 
inhabitants  of  the  captured  city  by  fines,  levied  and  exacted  under 
threat  of  imprisoning  recusants  at  hard  labor  with  ball  and  chain. 

"  The  entire  population  of  the  City  of  New  Orleans  have  been  forced 
to  elect  between  starvatior^  by  the  confiscation  of  all  their  property, 
and  taking  an  oath  against  conscience  to  bear  allegiance  to  the  invaders 
of  their  country. 

••  Egress  from  the  city  has  been  refused  to  those  whose  fortitude 
withstood  the  test,  even  to  lone  and  aged  women  and  to  helpless 
children;  and,  after  being  ejected  from  their  homes  and  robbed  of  their 
property,  they  have  been  left  to  starve  in  the  streets  or  subsist  on 
charity. 

"  The  slaves  have  been  driven  from  the  plantations  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  New  Orlwiius  till  their  owners  would  consent  to  share  the 
crops  with  the  Commanding  General,  his  brother,  Andrew  J.  Butler, 
and  other  officers;  and  when  such  consent  had  been  extorted  the 
slaves  have  been  restored  to  the  plantations,  and  there  compelled  to 
work  under  the  bayonets  of  guards  of  United  States  soldiers. 

••Where  this  partnership  was  refused,  armed  expeditions  have  been 
«ont  to  the  plantations  to  rob  them  of  everything  that  was  susceptible 
of  removal,  aud  even  slave?  too  aged  or  infirm  for  work,  have,  in  spit<.> 
of  their  entreaties,  been  forced  from  the  homes  provided  by  the  owners, 
and  driven  to  wander  helpless  on  the  highwaj'. 

•'  By  a  recent  General  Order  (No.  91)  the  entire  property  in  that 
part  of  Louisiana  lying  west  of  tbe  Mississippi  river  has  been  seques- 
trated for  confiscation,  and  officers  have  been  assigned  to  duty,  with 
orders  to  '  gather  up  aud  collect  the  personal  property,  and  turn  over 
to  the  proper  officers,  upon  their  receipts,  such  of  sftid  property  as  m.ay 
be  required  for  the  use  of  the  United  States  army  ;  to  collect  together 
all  the  other  personal  property,  and  bring  the  same  to  New  Orleans, 
and  cause  it  to  be  sold  at  public  auction  to  the  highest  bidders  '—an 
order  which,  if  executed,  condemns  to  punishment,  by  starvation,  at 
least  a  quarter  of  a  million  of  human  beings  of  all  ages,  sexes,  and 
conditions;  and  of  which  the  execution,  although  forbidden  to  mili- 
tary ofliccrs  by  the  orders  of  President  Lincoln,  is  in  accordance  with 
the  confiscation  law  of  our  enemies,  which  he  has  directed  to  be  en- 
forced through  the  agency  of  civil  officials.  And,  finally,  the  African 
slaves  have  not  only  been  excited  to  insurrection  by  every  license  and 


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encouragement,  but  numbers  of  them  have  actually  been  arm6d  for  a 
servile  war — a  war  in  it«  nature  far  exceeding  in  horrors  the  most  mer- 
ciless atroctties  of  the  savages. 

"And  whereas  the  officers  under  the  command  of  the  said  Butler 
have  been,  in  many  instances,  active  and  zealous  agents  in  the  commis- 
sion of  these  crimes,  and  no  instance  is  known  of  the  refusal  of  any- 
one of  them  to  participate  in  the  outrages  above  narrated  : 

"And  whereas  the  President  of  the  United  States  has,  by  public  and 
official  declaration,  signified  not  only  his  approval  of  the  effort  to 
excite  servile  war  within  the  Confederacy,  b%t  his  intention  to  give  aid 
and  encouragement  thereto,  if  these  independent  states  shall  continue 
to  refuse  submission  to  a  foreign  power  after  the  first  day  of  January 
next,"  and  has  thus  made  known  that  all  appeals  to  the  laws  of  nations, 
the  dictates  of  reason,  and  the  instincts  of  humanity  would  be  ad- 
dressed in  vain  to  our  enemies,  and  that  they  can  be  deterred  from  the 
commission  of  tliese  crimes  only  by  the  terms  of  just  retribution  : 

"Now,  therefore,  I,  Jefferson  Davis,  President  of  the  Confederate 
vStates  of  America,  and  acting  by  their  authority,  appealing  to  the 
Divine  Judge  in  attestation  that  their  conduct  is  not  guided  by  the 
passion  of  revenge,  but  that  they  reluctantly  yield  to  the  solemn  duty 
of  repressing,  by  necessary  severity,  crimes  of  which  their  citizens  are 
the  victims,  do  issue  this  my  proclamation,  and,  by  virtue  of  my  author- 
ity as  Commander-in-chief  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  do 
order — 

"  1st.  That  all  commissioned  officers  in  the  command  of  said  Benjamin 
F.  Butler  be  declared  not  entitled  to  be  considered  as  soldiers  engaged 
in  honorable  warfare,  but  as  robbers  and  criminals,  deserving  death; 
and  that  they  and  each  of  them  be,  whenever  captured,  reserved  for 
execution. 

"  2d.  That  the  private  soldiers  and  non-commissioned  officers  in  the 
army  of  said  Butler  be  considered  as  only  the  instruments  used  for  the 
commission  of  the  crimes  perpetrated  by  his  orders,  and  not  as  free 
agents;  that  they  therefore  be  treated,  when  captured,  as  prisoners  of 
war,  with  kindness  and  humanity,  and  be  sent  home  on  the  usual 
parole,  that  they  will  in  no  manner  aid  or  serve  the  United  States  in 
any  capacity  during  the  continuance  of  this  war,  unless  duly  ex- 
changed. 

"  3d.  That  all  negro  slaves  captured  in  arms  be  at  once  delivered 
over  to  the  executive  authorities  of  the  respective  states  to  which  they 
belong,  to  be  dealt  with  accordiug  to  the  laws  of  said  states. 

"4th.  That  the  like  orders  be  executed  in  all  cases  with  respect  to 
all  commissioned  officers  of  the  United  States,  when  found  serving  in 


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company  with  armed  slaves  iu  iu;:urrection  against  the  authorities  of 
the  diflFerent  states  of  this  Confederacy. 

"  [L.  S.]  In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  signed  these  presents,  and 
caused  the  seal  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  to  be  atfixeil 
thereto,  at  the  City  of  Richmond,  on  this  23d  day  of  December,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

(Signed)  .JEFFERSON  DAVIS." 

By  the  President  : 
*  J.  P.  Benjamin,  Secretin-)/  of  State. 

II.. Officers  of  the  army  are  charged  with  the  observance  and 
enforcement  of  the  foregoing  orders  of  the  President.  Where  the 
evidence  is  not  full,  or  the  case  is,  for  any  reason,  of  a  doubtful 
character,  it  will  be  referred,  through  this  office,  for  the  decision  of  the 
War  department. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailjirtnnt  and  fnnpector-Geneml. 


SERIES    1863. 

JANUARY  TO  DECEMBER. 


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ANALYTICAL   INDEX 

TO 

(^tnmx\  &xtkx^  from  Wnx  gcpavtmcut, 

From  January  to  Decembeh,  1863. 


No.     No. 

ACTS  OF  CONGRESS.  p",',  o^ 

To  protect  the  rights  of  owners  of  sl.aves  taken  by  or  em- 
ployed by  the  army.      Chapter  Ixii.     Approved  October 

13,1862.. I     25 

S^c.  1.     Disposition  of  slaves  captured  from  enemy. 
See.  2.     Depots   for   reception   of  slaves    to    be   estab- 
lished by  Secretary  of  War. 
Sec.  3.     List  and  description  of  slaves  to  be  advertised. 
Sec.  4.     Slaves  in  depots  may  be  employed  on  public 

work. 
See.  5.     May  be  inspected  and   e.xamined  to  establish 

ownership. 
See.  6.     Secretary  of  War  to  require  list  of  slaves   in 

employment  of  officers  and  soldiers. 
See.  7.     Slaves  in  depots  to  be  furnished  with  subsist- 
ence    I    25 

To  punish  drunkenness  in  army.     April  21,  1862 1     34 

See.  1.  Any  officer  while  on  or  off  duty  convicted 
thereof,  to  be  cashiered,  suspended,  or  reprimanded, 
according  to  nature  of  offence. 
Sec.  2.  Duty  of  all  officers  to  report  cases  coming 
*  under  observation  that  they  may  be  brought  to  trial ; 
findings  of  court  to  be  transmitted  for  approval  of 
Secretary  of  War,  to  bo  reported  to  Congress  at  next 

session  thereafter I     34 

Impressment  act.     (See  impreB»mentB  of  property) 87 

To  amend  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  regulate  impressments 


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of  property  by  officers  of  the  army."    April  27, 1863.    (See 

imju-eiismeiits  of  property) • 53 

To  prohibit  the  punifhmcnt  of  soldiers   by  ivhipping.     Ap- 
proved April  13,  18C3 44 

Sec  1.  Courts-martial  not  to  cause  any  soldier  to  be 
punished  by  whipping. 

Sec.  2.     Deserters,  how  punished 44 

To  exempt  mail  contractors  and  drivers  of  post-coaches  and 
hacks  from  military  service.     Approved  April  14,  1S63. 

(See    exemption) 44 

To  discharge  persons  in  military  service  appointed  or  elected 

to  certain  civil  offices.     April  2,  1S63 I     48 

To  provide  and  organize  engineer  troops  to  serve  during  the 

war.     Approved  March   20,  1863.     (See   Engineer  corps)  I     66 
To  abolish   supernumerary  officers  in  the   Commissary  and 

Quartermaster's  departments.     May  1,  1863 I     70 

Sec.  I.     Abolishes  regimental  commissaries;  duties  of, 

to  be  performed  by  regimental  quartermasters. 
Sec.  2.     Enlisted  men  may  be  detailed  by  regimental  or 
battalion    commanders  to   perform   duties   now  per- 
formed by  commissary  sergeant,  to  receive  extra  pay 
of  $20  per  month. 
Sec.  S.     Supplies  for  regiments,  how  drawn. 
Sec.  4.     Sales  to  officers,  by  whom  made. 
Sec.  5.     Officers  of  Commissary  and  Quartermaster's  de- 
partments becoming  permanently  detached  from  or- 
ganizations to  which  originally  appointed,  cease  to  bo 
officers,  unless  reassigned  by  Secretary  of  War. 
Seed.     Secretary  ofAVar  to  communicate  to  chiefs  of 
Subsistence  and   Quartermaster's  bureaus  names  of 
officers  dropped  under  this  act. 
Sec.  1.     Repealing  laws  and  parts  of  laws  contravening 

provisions  of  this  act I     70 

.    To  allow  hospital   accommodations  to   sick  and  wounded 

officers.     April  29,  1863 71 

Sec.  1.     Fixes  rate  per  diem. 

Sec.  2.     In  ease  officer  has  no  money,  hospital  fee — 

how,  when,  and  by  whom  drawn M. .         71 

To  regulate  pay  of  detailed  men.     May  1,  1863 I     75 

Sec.  1.  Enlisted  men  employed  on  detailed  or  detached 
service,  by  departmental  or  other  commander  of  dis- 
trict, or  by  military  bureaus,  compensation  in  lieu  of 
other  allowances  to  be  $3  per  day. 


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Sec.  2.     Act  to  remain  in  force  until  January  1,  1804. .   I     7i 
To  establish  a  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau.     Approved  April 

22,  1SG3 I    85 

Sec.  I.     Certain  officers  to  constitute  independent  bu- 
reau, entitled  "The  Nitre  aud  Mining  bureau." 

Scc^2.     Defines  duties  of  bureau — what  cdar^ed  with 

spccifyiug  authority  aud  duties  of  superintendent  of 
bureau. 
Sie.  3.     Rank  and  pay  of  officers  constituting  bureau.  I     85 
To  provide  for  local  defence  and  special  service.     August  21 , 


1S61 


.XII  -M 


Sec.  I.     Authorizes  President  to  accept  services  of  cer- 
tain persons  for  defence  of  exposed  places,  etc. 
Sec.  2.     How  mustered — pay  and  subsistence. 
Sec.  3.     How    organized.     Field-officers    appointed    by 

President.     Company  oillcers  elected XII     86 

To  amend  au  act  entitled  An  act  to  provide  for  an  increase 
of  the  Quartermaster's  and  Commissary  departments, 
approved  February  15,  1862.  Approved  April  22,  186.3..  I  105 
Strikes  out  proviso  at  end  of  act  February  15,  1802,  and  in 
lieu,  prohibits  quartermasters  and  commissaries  from  cm- 
ploying  any  one  as  clerk  who  is  liable  to  military  service; 
provides  for  details  of  clerks  from   ranks  ;   where  can  bo 

found  only  disabled  soldiers  to  be  so  detailed I  105 

To  provide  for  transportation  of  persons  who  have  been 
mustered  into  service  for  the  war.     Approved  February 

7,  lS6o 

Qirants  transportation  home  and  back  to  men  enlisted  for 
the  war,  to  whom  furloughs  may  be  granted  for  not  more 
than  sixty  days.     This  allowance  only  to  be  made    once 

during  term  of  enlistment I  103 

To  amend  an  act  for  the   establishment  and  organization  of 
a  general   staff  for  the  Army  of  the  Confederate   States. 
Approved  March  20,  1S63. 
Provides  that  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  quartermaster- 
general  shall  be  those  of  brigadier-general,  P.  A.  C.  S I  108 

To   prevent    the   absence    of  oQicers    and    soldiers    without 

leave.     Approved  April  16,  1 863   I  108 

Sec.  1.     Prohibits    payments    to    officers    and    soldiers 

during  period  for  which  absent  without,  leave.     Thiai 

restriction  not  to  affect  sick  or  wounded  in  hospitals. 

Sec.  2.     Commanders  of  companies  to  note   on   muster 

aud  pay  rolls  time  of  unauthorized  absence  of  any 


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nffleer  or  soldier ;  failing  to  do  so,  Lold  responsible 
for  amount  forfeited.  Quartermasters  to  deduct  pay 
for  unauthori/.od  aVisonce  os  i>cr  muster  and  pay  roll. 
Sec.  3.  Officers  to  certify  upon  honor  on  pay  nccounte, 
whether  they  have  or  have  not  been  absent  with  lut 
leave — if  absent,  stating  period.  Commanding  (tfljoers 
of  companies  to  certify  on  pay  accc.uiits  that  the 
muster-rolls  of  their  companies  were  fully  and  cor- 
rectly made  out. 
i>'ec.  4.     This  act  not  to  relieve  persons  from  other  pen- 

•  alties  to  which  liable  under  existing  regulations I  108 

Explanatory  of  an  act  entitled  An  act  to  authorize  the 
President  to  place  in  service  certain  regiments  and  battal- 
ions heretofore  raised,  approved  October  11,  1S62.  Ap- 
proved April  16,  1863. 
Second  section  of  above  recited  act  not  to  be  so  construed  as 
to  allow  general  officers  to  appoint  any  of  the  officers  of 
said  regiments,  etc.,  which  shall  have  right  to  reorganize, 

provided,   etc 

To  repciil  certain  clauses  of  Exemption  act,  approved  Oc- 
tober 11,  1862.     Approved    May  1,1863... lift 

Sec.  1.     Repeals  so  much  as  exempts  agent,  owner,  or 
overseer  on  plantation  ;  also  clause  providing  for  ad- 
ditional police,  etc. 
Sec.  2.     Provides   for  exemption   of  certain   persons  to 

secure  proper  police  and  management  of  slaves. 
Sec.  3.     Authorizes  President  to  exempt  certain  persons 
in  districts  deprived  of  white  or  slave  labor  indispen- 
sable for  production  of  grain  and  provisions  necessary 
for  population  at  home,  etc. 
,SV<:.  4.     Provides    for    exemption   of    ailditionul   stato 
officers. 
To  amend    an    act   entitled    An    act   to  organize   military 
courts,  approved  October,  1862.     Approved  Miiy  1,  18l"(3. 
Authorizes  organization  of  one  military  court  in  each  de- 
partment, in  addition  to  the  military  courts  for  each  army 

corps  in  the  field I  108 

To   continue  in  force  the  third  section  of  an  act  relating  to 
settlement  of  claims  for  pay,  etc.,  due  deceased  soldiers. 

Approved  May  1, 1803 I  108 

Joint  rcsoluliuns  on  subject  of  retaliation.     Approved  May 
1,  1863. 

Sec.  1.     Commissioned  oliiuers  of  uncmy  ought  not  to 


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be  delivered  to  authorities  of  states,  as  suggested  in 
President's  message,  but  should  be  dealt  with  by 
Confederate  government. 

iSec.  2.  The  Proclamations  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  dated  respectively  September  22,  1S62, 
and  January  1,  1863,  may  be  properly  and  lawfully 
repressed  by  retaliation. 

Sec.  3.  Authorizing  the  President  to  retaliate  for  any 
violations  by  the  enemy  of  the  laws  or  usages  of  war. 

Sec.  4.  Provides  for  the  punishment,  in  the  event  of 
capture,  of  every  white  person,  being  a  commissioned 
oflicer  or  acting  as  such,  who  shall  command  negroB 
in  arms  against  Confederate  States,  etc. 

Sec.  5.  Provides  for  the  punishment,  in  the  event  of 
capture,  of  everj'  person,  being  a  commissioned  officer 
or  acting  as  such,  who  shall  excite  or  cause  to  be  ex- 
cited a  servile  insurrection,  etc. 

Sec.  6.  Provides  manner  of  trial  for  any  person  charg- 
ed with  offences  punishable  under  above  resolutions. 

Sec.  7.  Negroes  and  inulattoes  engaged  in  war,  or  taken 
in  arms  against  Confederate  States,  when  captured 
to  be  delivered  to  authorities  of  state  in  which  cap- 
tured, to  bo  dealt  with  according  to  laws  of  said 
state. 
To  provide  for  appointment  of  military  storekeepers,  P.  A. 
C.  S.     Approved  May  1,  1863. 

Sec.  1.  Authorizing  President  to  appoint  not  to  exceed 
eight  (8)  storekeepers  ;  four  with  pay  and  allowances 
of  captain  of  infantry,  four  with  pay  and  allowances 
of  first  lieutenant  of  infantry. 

Sec.  2.     Who   may   bo   appointed.      Fixes   amount   of 

bond I  108 

To  prevent  fraud  in  the  Quartermaster's  and  Commissary 
departments,  etc.     Approved  May  1 I  108 

Sec.  1.  Disbursing  officers  not  to  invest  on  private  ac- 
count any  public  moneys  entrusted  to  them  for  safe- 
keeping, or  other  purpose. 

Sec.  2.  Disbursing  officers  not  to  trade,  speculate,  or 
traliic  in  any  article  which  is  or  may  be  required  to 
be  purchased  for  use  of  the  army  or  prosecution  of 
the  war. 

Sec.  3.  No  officer  shall  take  receipts  in  blank  for  any 
article  purchased  by  him  for  government;  receipti 
shall  specify,  etc. 


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Sec.  4.     Prohibits  officers  from  forwarding  by  govern- 
ment conveyance,  or  at  expense  of  government,  any 
article  not  belonging  to  government,  except  as  aulbor- 
iied  by  law. 
Sees.  6  and  C.     Provides  for  punishment  of  officers  and 
of  persons  in  employment  or  service  of  government 
who  shall  violate  provisions  of  this  act. 
To  pay  officers  and  enlisted  men  not  legally  mustered  into 
service  of  Confederate  States,  for  gervicos  actually  per- 
formed.    Approved  May  1,  1863. 
Provides  for  payment  of  persons  in  legally  constituted  mili- 
tary organizations  which  have  been  actually  received  into 
service    of  Confederate    States    by    any    general    officer 

thereof I  108 

To  provide  for  transfer  of  persons  from  army  to  navy.     Ap- 
proved May  1, 1863 I  108 

All  persons  who  may  desire  transfer  from  army  to  navy, 
and  whose  transfer  as  seamen  or  ordinary  seamen  shall 
be  applied  for  b^'  Secretary  of  Navy,  shall  receive  trans- 
fer. 
Regulating  the  granting  of  furloughs  and  discharges  in  hos- 
pitals.    Approved   May  1,  1863 108 

Sec.  1.     Constitutes  boards  for  examination  of  subjects 
for  furloughs  and  discharge.     Boards  may  grant  fur- 
loughs not  to  exceed  sixty  days  ;  may  employ  clerk  to 
issue  all  furloughs  which  shall  specify,  etc. 
Sec.  2.      No   further  regulation    shall    bo    required    of 
soldier,   and   his  furlough  shall   be  equivalent  to  a 
passport. 
Sec.  3.     Said  board  may  recommend  discharges,  which, 
when  approved  by  Surgeon-General  or  commanding 
general  of  soldier,  will  entitle  him  to  a  discharge  and 
transportation. 
Sec.  4.     Provides  for  constitution  of  board  where  only 

two  hospitals ;  where  but  one  hospital. 
Sec.  5.     House  surgeon  in  all  hospitals  shall  see  each 
patient  under  his  charge  once  every  day. 
Act  to  punish  persons  not  subject  to  Articles  of  AVar  who 
shall  entice  soldier  to  desert,  or  who  shall  purchase  his 
arms,  uniform,  etc.,  or  any  part  thereof. 

ABSENTEES. 

When  officers   absent  without  authority  thirty  days   from 

publication  of  this  order,  to  bo  dropped I     15 


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Not  to  be  paid  without  exhibiting  authority  for  absence  ...   I     16 

Men  absent  without  authority  from  commands  and  cm- 
ployed  ou  government  work  must  return  to  respective 
compauies 94 

Amucsty  granted  by  President  to,  who  shall  return  to  their 

posts  within  twenty  days I  109 

Not  to  receive  pay  for  time  during  which  absent  without 

authority lOS 

Monthly  roll  of  all  without  authoritj',  to  be  furnished  by 
regimental,  battalion,  etc.,  commanders  to  Chief  Bureau  of 
Conscription I  122 

Modification  of  above  order VII  125 

Not  to  be  paid  for  time  for  which  absent  without  au- 
thority    I  103 

ADJUTANTS. 

To  report  to  Adjutant  and  Inspeetor-Gcnoral's  office  cases  of 

slaves  serving  without  written  authority  of  master I     59 

Allowed   to  regiments  and    regulailj'  organized   battalions 

only Page  227 

Of  ba'ttalions,    when  competent,  not  to   be  changed  should 

battalion  be  increased  to  a  regiment Page  227 

AIDES-DE-CAMP. 

Supernumerary,  not  to  be  accepted  by  general  otPiccrs  unless 

they  are  exempt  from  militarj'  service V  107 

ALIENS. 

Respecting  discharge  o{  {Ojn'nion  of  Attonif;/-General).  .Fage  227 
Must  be  domiciliated  to  be  subject  to  military  duty Page  227 

AMMUNITION. 

For  organizations  for  local  defence  furnished  by  Confeder- 
ate States VII     86 

Practice  of  issuing  on  eve  of  battle  twenty  rounds  over 
and  above  capacity  of  cartridge-boxes  to  be  discontinued, 
except  on  special  order  of  commanding  general Page  225 

Issues  of,  except  to  cover  expenditures  in  battle,  limited  to 

three  rounds  per  man  per  month Page  225 

Supplies  of,  to  cover  expenditures  in  battle  —  how  fur- 
nished  Pago  225 

Issues  of — how  made Pago  240 

Chests  for  twelve-pounder  Napoleons;  how  packed  .......  Page  239 

Captured,  to  bo  kept  separate  from  that  of  our  own  manu- 
facture   Page  239 


X  INDEX. 

AMNESTY. 

Granted  by   President  to  all   unauthorized   absentees  who 

shall  return  to  duty  within  certain  time I  109 

Granted  to  all  who  have  been  accused,  convicted,  and  under- 
going sentence  for  absence  without  leave  or  desertion, 
except  it  be  second  oflfecce II  109 

APPLICATIONS. 

For  staff  ajipuintmeuts  to  fill  vacancies  to  be  sent  through 

proper  channel,  and  to  show  how  vacancies  have  occurred.   I       8 
For  military  appointments  to  give  character  and  qualifica- 
tions   of  persons   recommended,    and    name    of  state   in 
which  born  and  of  which  citizen VII  28,  I  163 

APPOINTMENTS. 

Applications  for  staff,  to  fill  vacancies,  to  be  sent  through 

proper  channel,  and  to  state  how  such  vacancies  occurred.   I      8 

Of  artillery  otficers  who  have  passed  examinations  not  to 
exceed  half  the  number  passed;  how  selected;  commis- 
sions, when  issued ;  regulating  pay I     13 

Applications  for,  to  give  character  of  person  recommended 

and  name  of  state  in  which  born,  etc VII  28,  I  163 

Of  provost  marshals  from   persons  not  belonging  to  army 

prohibited I     74 

Of  field -oflScers  for  organizations  for  local  defence  made  by 

President IX     86 

Of  battalion  and  regimental  commissaries  will  not  be  made.  I     70 

Of  military  storekeepers  may  be  made  not  to  exceed  eight — 
rank  and  pay  {Sec.  1) I  108 

Of  artillery  oflSeers  under  rank  of  major  (except  for  ord- 
nance duty)  can  not  be  made  by  War  department Page  228 

Can  not  be  made  to  grade  of  brevet  second  lieutenant, 
except,  etc Page  233 

ARMS. 

When  furnished  by  men,  to  be  paid  for  at  rate  of  one  dollar 
per  mouth;  or  may  be  sold  to  government  at  prices  fixed 
by  mustering  officer — fact  to  be  noted  on  muster-rolls,  to 
be  paid  for  by  brigade,  division,  or  other  ordnance 
officers I       9 

Captured  on  battle-field  not  to  be  exchanged  by  troops 
without  proper  authority Ill     19 

Captured  to  be  turned  over  to  chief  ordnance  officer Ill     19 

Captured  by  partisan  rangers  to  be  assessed  under  orders 


INDEX.  XI 

of  commanding  general,  and  paid   for  by  Ordnance  de- 
partment   II     20 

For  organizations  for  local  defence  to  be  furnished  by  Con- 
federate States VII     86 

Left  by  stragglers  in  hands  of  citizens  to  be  collected  by 
ofticors  of  Quartermaster's,  Commissary,  and  Conscription 
departments I  119 

So  collected  to  be  turned  over  to  nearest  ordnance  officer, 
who  will  receipt  for,  and  upon  proper  vouchers  will  pay 
reasonable  transportation II  119 

Schedule  of  average  cost  of,  parts  of,  and  accoutrements. . .       158 

Calibre  of  Enfield  rifles  adopted  for  infantry,  made  at  gov- 
ernment establishments Page  234 

Classification  of Page  240 

ARTILLERY. 

Field,   belonging  to  separate  army,  to   be  parked  together 

under  the  direction  of  the  general,  etc II       ? 

Public  horses  suitable  for,  to  be  turned  over  to  chief  quar- 
termaster of  armies,  and  collected  under  orders  of  inspect- 
or field  transportation 60 

Horses  for,  to  be  carefully  husbanded I  142 

Inspections,  impressments,  and  issues  of  horses  for,  made 
under  orders   inspector-general  of  transportation  (Major 

A.  H.  Cole) II  142 

Horses  for,  condemned  ;  how  disposed  of IV  142 

Fixing  calibre  of,  to  be  hereafter  made Pago  234 

Regulation,  with  a  view  to  trace  history  of,  employed  in  th  e 

service , Page  238 

Organizations  of  light,  received  under  act  May  10,  1861, 
not  afl'ected  by  General  Order,  No.  81,  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector-General's office,  of  1862 Page  227 

Officers  of,  under  rank  of  major  (except  for  ordnance  duty) 
can  not  be  appointed  by  War  department Page  228 

ARRESTS. 

Stragglers  and  deserters  to  be  arrested  by  enrolling  officer.  .II       1 
Of  disbursing  officers  to  be  stayed  until  facts  are  reported 

to  War  department II     15 

ARSENALS. 

Names  of,  under  immediate   charge    of    War   department ; 

orders  to  be  given  directly  through   Ordnance  bureau. ...   I     13 

Stores  fabricated  and  deposited  at;  how  drawn II     13 

Officers  stationed  at,  to  report  upon  arrival  to  commanding 


Xli  INDEX. 

general  of  department,   and  to  obtain    leave  of  absence 

from  him Ill     13 

Officers  stationed  at,  subject  only  to  orders  from  War  de- 
partment  Ill    13 

Officers  in  charge  of,  to  forward  list  and  description  of  em- 
ployees, with  statement  of  pay Ill     33 

Officers  stationed  at,  to  be  employed  on    duties  appropriate 

to  their  commissions,  etc Page  236 

Wages  paid  at,  on  March  31,  1S63,  considered  fixed  and  not 

to  be  changed,  except Page  236 

No  building  costing  more  than  $1,000  begun  without  esti- 
mate  Page  238 

ASSIGNMENTS. 

Of  officers  stationed  at  permanent  posts,  etc.,  established  by 
Quartermaster's  department,  not    to  be  changed    except 

through  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's    office II  114 

Of  officers  will  not  be  made  until  after  reception  of  ap- 
pointment    I  121 

As  inspector  of  arsenals,  of  Lieut.  Col.  J.  A.  DeLagnel.  .Page  242 

As  inspector  of  small  arms,  of  Major  F.  F.  Jones Page  242 

As  superintendent  of  laboratories,  of  Maj.  G.  W.  Mallett.Page  243 

BADGES. 

Names  of  those  entitled  to 131 

BOARDS. 

Of  examinations  for  conscripts — additional  instructions  to. .  22 

For  examination  of  cadets  to  be  assembled  by  commanders 

of  armies  infield II     38 

Of  examiners,  composed  of  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals, 

authorized  to  grant  limited  furloughs I,  V     69 

Will  examine  and  may  recommend  applicants  for  dis- 
charge   IV  69 

Of  examiners  can  not  grant  leaves  of  absence  to  officers — 

can  only  recommend  for  consideration  of  department  or 

army  commanders X     69 

Temporary,  for  examination  of  conscripts,  may  be  appointed 

by  commandants  of  conscripts Ill     15 

Medical  examining,  granting  furloughs,  to  specify  length 

of  furlough,  places  of  residence,  company,  etc II     69 

Of  examination  for  discharge  may  recommend  applicants 

for  detail  in  staff  departments I     96 

Medical,  can  not  extend   leaves  of  absence  or  furloughs — 

can  only  recommend Ill     96 


INDEX.  xiii 

Of  examination    of    officers    for   promotion ;  how  condnet- 

*•* Page  228 

CADETS. 

Boards  for  examination  of — how  assembled II     38 

On  attaining  majority  to  be  e.xamined,  and  may  bo  promot- 
ed to  grade  of  second  lieutenant II     33 

Failing  to  report  to  War  department  within  twenty  days 
where  born,  how  and  whence  appointed,  etc.,  to  be  dropped 
from  rolls  of  army j  132 

CAMPS  OF  IXSTRUCTION. 

To  be  established  at  Petersburg I       4 

Commandants  of,  to  provide  quarters  for  recaptured  negroes 

sent  to  depots jjj     95 

CARTRIDGES. 

Each  package  of  manufactured,  to  be  labelled,  etc Pago  2.34 

CAVALRY. 

Companies  of,  to  be  kept  with  regiment Ill       5 

Companies  of,  not  to  be  detailed  as  couriers  and  guides  for 

head-quarters jjj     ^ 

Equipmcnis  brought   into  service  by  men  to  be  paid  for  ; 

valucj  how  fi.xcd tj       q 

Members    of,  refusing  to    keep    themselves   provided   with 

horses,  may  be  transferred  to  infantry  or  artillery II     67 

Soldiers  able  to  furnish  horses  may  be  transferred  to II     67 

Members   of  companies  of,  for  local  defence,  must  furnish 

own  horses,  and  will  receive  40  cent?:  per  day  for  hire II  86 

CERTIFICATES. 

Of  exemption  granted  by  enrolling  officer I       | 

Of  exemption    not  to    be  granted  by  officers   acting  under 

authority  of  circular  of  January  8,  1863 I     jg 

Of  disability  to  be  made  out  in  accordance  with  established 


forms. 


.IV    r 


Of  disability  not  to  contain  recommendations  for  li(/ht  dufi/.IV       T 

Of  last  payment  to  be  furnished  by  quartermasters  to  officers 
leaving  on  detached  duty jy     28 

Of  disability  granted  by  examining  boards  to  be  completed 
by  commandant  of  post  and  forwarded  to  the  Adjutant  and 

Inspector-Gr«ncraJ. ly    «n 

CLAIMS. 

For  impreBsed  property;  how  settled ..VI    81 


XIV  INDEX. 

For  commutation  of  transportation  due  enlisted  men  who 
have  been  promoted,  settled  by  Quartermaster's  depart- 
ment  V     33 

For  commutation  of  transportation  due  personal  representa- 
tives of  deceased  soldiers,  settled  by  Second  Auditor V    33 

For  horses  and  mules  left  on  premises  of  farmers  by  enemj' 
will  not  be  made  by  government  unless  value  exceed 
amount  property  of  which  said  farmer  has  beendespoiled.il     61 

Regulations  adopted  by    Second  Auditor  for  settlement  of, 

for  pay  and  allowance  due  deceased  soldiers Page  229 

CLOTHING. 

Of  deceased  soldiers  in  hospitals  ;  how  disposed  of I     49 

Of  deceased  soldiers  will  be  reissued  by  quartermaster  at 

appraised  value I     49 

Of  deceased  soldiers,  appraisement  of  to  be  made  after  being 

washed  and  put  in  condition 93 

Of  detailed  men  absent  from  commands  when  disbanded; 

by  whom  drawn  and  issued Ill     80 

Due  soldier  at  end  of  yeai;,  money  value  of,  may  be  paid 
upon  descriptive  list,  wHIn  soldier  is  properly  absent  and 
will  be  prevented  from  joining  within  sixty  days  thereafter.       138 

Statement  of  cost  of,  for  army I  146 

Soldiers  to  be  charged  and  credited  on  account  of,  as  provid- 
ed in  General  Orders,  No.  100,  of  1862,  at  above  rates  and 
not  invoice  prices II  146 

COMMANDS. 

Not  to  be  disbanded  prior  to    expiration  of  service  without 

authority  from  War  department I     28 

Brigadier-generals  not   to  be  permanently  detached  from, 

without  authority  from  War  department II     28 

Colonels  will   not   be  permanently  detached   from,  without 

authority  from  War  department II    28 

COMMANDANTS  OF  CONSCRIPTS. 

To  forward  monthly  return  of  conscripts  to  bureau  at  Rich- 
mond ....   Ill       1 

May  appoint  temporary  boards  for  examination  of  con- 
scripts  Ill     15 

Names  of  persons  enlisting  recruits  for  new  organizations  to 

be  reported  to Ill     18 

To  report  separately  conscripts  gathered  under  system  ini- 
tiated by  circular  of  January  8,  1863 II     16 

To  make  requisition  for  conscripts  who  have  vo'lunteered  in 
organizations  formed  since  April  16,  1862 Ill  125 


INDEX.  XV 

May  employ  officers  and  soldiers  coming  within  their  juris- 
diction, under  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  82,  and 
paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  96.  of  1862,  in  duties 
of  railroad  guards,  bridge  or  ferry  guards,  iff  protection  of 
property,  etc jgy 

May  also  detail  as  above,  convalescents  recommended  by  hos- 
pital boards jgy 

COMMANDING  OFFICERS. 

Of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  to  forward  to  Chief  of  Bureau 
of  Conscription  list  of  substitutes  in  respective  commands.   I  122 

Of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  to  forward  also  monthly  list 
of  deserters  and  absentees  without  leave I  122 

Examining  abstracts  of  issues  of  commissaries  to  see  that 
only  number  of  men  present  for  duty  are  included  on  pro- 
vision   return jj  j^j 

Camps  of  instruction   may    make  requisitions  for  ordnance 

8t"rc' Page  234 

COMMISSARIES. 

To  exercise  discretion  in  shipping  freight   not  wanted  for 

immediate  use VI       2 

To  account  for  funds  received  from  Quartermaster's  depart- 
ment for  hides Uj     34 

Office  of  regimental  abolished ;  duties  of  devolve  on  regi- 
mental quartermaster J     70 

Becoming  detached  from  commands  to  which  originally  ap- 
pointed, cease  to  beoflScers  unless  reassigned  by  Secretary 
of  War J     170 

Brigade,  may  make  sales  to  officers I     70 

Appointments  of  battalion  and  regimental  will  not  be  made.   I     70 

Act  to  prevent  fraud  in  department.    Approved  May  1, 1863. 

(See  Acts  of  Congrens.) j  jOS 

Not  to  employ  as  clerks  persons  liable  to  military  service. .   I  105 

In  the  field  to  report  to  commanding  general  number  and 
names  of  clerks,  whether  citizens  or  soldiers ;  if  former, 
whether  or  not  exempt;  if  soldiers,  whether  or  not  dis- 
abled, etc II  J05 

At  posts,  to  make  similar  report  through  chief  of  bureau.  .Ill  105 

Serving  with  troops,  when  properly  authorized,  may  receive 

tithe  tax y  jjy 

To  render  assistance  in  collecting  arms  left  by  stragglers  in 

hands  of  citiiens I  jjg 

In  the  field  and  at  depots  to  transfer  hides  of  slaughtered 
iheep  to  officers  of  Quartermaster's  department IT  119 


XVi  INDEX. 

Appointed  prior  to  January  12,  1863  (except,  etc.),  and 
whose  bonds  are  not  filed  in  and  approved  by  War  depart- 
ment, drojjjicd,  provided,  etc II  121 

May  receive  leaves  of  absence  in  certain  cases,  to  make  their 

bonds II  121 

No  application  by  individuals  for  revocation  of  above  or- 
der, will  be  entertained  by  War  department.. Ill  121 

Vacancies  of,  in  brigade,  regiment,  etc.,  how  filled;  ap- 
pointee held  strictly  to  requirements  of  preceding  para- 
graph I Ill  121 

In  charge  of  depots,  to  receive  from  collectors  of  taxes  in 
kind,  and  receipt  for  all  produce  belonging  to  their  de- 
partment, and  also  provide  storehouses  for  same II  132 

And  agents  of  department  appointed  by  Secretary  of  War 
entitled  to  personal  expenses  in  lieu  of  allowances  for  quar- 
ters, fuel,  etc.,  Avhen  temporarily  absent  under  special  or- 
ders from  posts I  15? 

COMMISSIONS. 

To  be  issued  to  acting  ordnance  oflicers  when  examinations 

are  completed  in  all  the  armies I     12 

Not  issued  to  company  ofiicers;  orders  placing  them  on  du- 
ty, together  with  rolls,  take  place  of Page  230 

COMPANY  COMMANDERS— DUTIES  OF. 

Note  on  muster  and  pay  rolls  amounts  of  commutation  of 
transportation  received  by  soldiers  in  lieu  of  furlough 
authorized  by  act  approved  December  11,  1861,  and  April 

16,  1862 VI     20 

COMPANY  COMMANDERS. 

To  note  on  muster-rolls  time  of  nnauthorized  absence  of  any 
oflicer  or  soldier I  108 

Failing  so  to  do,  shall  refund  amount  forfeited  by  such  ab- 
sent oflicer  or  soldier I  108 

To  certify  on  own  pay  accounts  thivt  muster  and  pay  rolls 

wei-o  properly  made  out  as  above I  108 

To  report  to  commandant  of  conscripts  name  of  any  con- 
script who  may  volunteer  in  his  company II  113 

If  company  reaches  maximum,  not  to  receive  recruits  as  vol- 
unteers or  otherwise IV  125 

Not  to  receive  or  muster  in  recruits  of  conscript  age  unless 
recruit  shows  certificate  approved  by  enrolling  oflicer, 
stating,  etc V  125 

Boceivin«f  notioea  of  furloughs  grajited  by  examining 
bon;rde>  will   fWrVftril   to   BuilBrinte'HaTOt*  of  Buroan  WT 


INDEX. 


XVU 


Conscription  montblir  Hst,  of  men  who  do  not  promptly 
re  urn,  etc ^    ^ 

To  enlist  four  cook.,  to  cook  for  eac'h  company'.'.*." '  V.*  Vpage  23^ 
CONSCRIPTS. 

All  wbitc  male  citizens  between  eighteen  and  forty  not  cr- 

einpt  by  act  of  October  11,  18G2,  liable  as....  t     , 

Monthly  roll  of  to  be  furnished  to   commandants  cara'pTo'/ 

instruction  by  enrolling  oflicer jjj 

Mon.hly  rolls  of  to  be  forwarded  by  command'an;s"cam"p;  of 

instruction  to  bureau  at  Richmond jjj     ^ 

All  commissioned  otT.cers  between  eiRbtcen  and  forty  'wlio 
have  become  disconnected  with  army,  unless  actually  dis- 

abled,  liable  as ,„ 

Prin.  ipals  who  have  substitutes  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 

and  forty,  liable  as jy 

Substitutes  between  eighteen   and  forty,  not  otherwise  ex- 

enipt,  liable  as,  and  will  beheld  in  service IV       1 

Enrolled,  in  employment  of  railroads,  to  remain  until  other- 

wise  decided  by  Col.  Wadley VIII       2 

Persons  liable  as,  in  certain  counties  in  Virginia,  to  repair  to 

camp  of  instruction  at  Petersburg,  Va I       a 

May   bo  examined  by   surgeons  seleeted  from  districts  in 

which  they  are  to  act ttt       g 

May  bo  examined  by  temporary  boards  of  medical  officer's 

apjjointed  by  commandants  of  conscripts HI     15 

In  custody  of  regular  enroliihg  otficers,  not  to  be  interfered 
with  by  officers    acting  under   authority    of  circular   of 

January  8,  1863 , j.     ., 

Will  not  be  recruited  into  organizations  not  in  service  April 
16,  1862,  unless  such  organization  shall  be  completed  and 
reported  to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office  before 

Mnrch  10,1863 j     ,j. 

To  be  received  when  equal  to  active  duties  of  various  occu- 
pations of  civil  life jj     ,2 

Who  have  received  temporary  exemption  to  report  at  expi- 
ration thereof  for  examination HI     22 

Leaving  employment  without  permission,  to  be  reported  to 

ner.icst  enrolling  officer,  and  punished  as  deserters Ill     30 

Examined  prior  to  publication  of  General  Orders,  No.  22, 

series  1863,  will  be  re-examined H     39 

Persons   discharged  on  certificates  of  disability   liable  as. 

when  dis.ability  ceases og 

16 


-Win  INDEX. 

All  white  male  residents  of  Confederate  States  between  ages 

of  eighteen  and  forty-fire,  liable  as I     98 

May  be  enrolled  wherever  found* I     98 

Persons  not  liable  as  (i.  e.  under  eighteen  and  over  forty- 
five)  may  organize  for  local  defence II     98 

Parsons  liable  as,  not  to  be  employed  as  clerks  by  commis- 
saries or  quartermasters I  105 

Who  have  been  sent  to  camps  of  instruction  or  to  regiments 
in  field  and  pronounced  fit  for  service  by  proper  boards, 
can  only  be  discharged  in  accordance  with  regulations  for 
discharge  of  soldiers I  107 

Assigned  to  regiments,  under  General   Orders,   No.  82,   of 

1862,  must  be  received  and  taken  up  on  rolls Ill  107 

Persons  liable  as,  who  may  volunteer,  not  to  receive  fur- 
loughs for  more  than  ten  (10)  days  before  entering  active 
service I  110 

Persons  liable  as,  who  may  volunteer,  to  report  himself  and 
company  in  which  he  volunteers  to  commandant  of  con- 
scripts— otherwise  held  subject  to  enrolment  and  assign- 
ment   II  110 

Persons  liable  as,  not  permitted  to  volunteer  in  battalions, 

etc.,  organized  since  April  16,  1862,  except I  125 

Not   to    be  assigned   to   companies  which-  have  ma.'cimum 

number  of  men IV  125 

Persons  liable  as,  not  to  be  received  or  mustered  except  on 

certificate  approved  by  enrolling  officer  stating,  etc V  125 

Will  not  be  granted   permits  by  recruiting  ofiicers   to  visit 

or  remain  at  their  homes  for  any  purpose I  135 

Persons  liable  a^,  and  employed  to  aid  enrolling  officers, 
must  be  enrolled,  and  unless  detailed  by  written  orders 
from  War  department  will  be  reported  to  Conscript 
bureau,  etc Ill  135 

Assignment  of,  made  only  by  Bureau  of  Conscription,  except 
such   as  may  be  made  by  Major-General  Pillow  within 

■'    territory  allotted  to  him 140 

Persons    liable    as,    belonging   to    organizations    for   local 

defence,  to  be  discharged  and  conscribed II  150 

CONSCRIPTION  DEPARTMENT. 

OfiBcers  and  agents  of,  to  render  assistance  in  collecting  arms 

left  by  stragglers  in  hands  of  citizens I  119 

Officers  of,  temporarily  absent  from  post,  may  be  allowed 
personal  expenses  in  lieu  of  fuel,  forage,  etc. — how  paid.  .II  133 


INDEX.  XIX 

COOKS. 

Four  (4)  to  be  enlisted  to  cook  for  each  company,  entitled  to 

ordinary  rate  of  "extra  duty"  pay Page  230 

CORRESPONDENCE— MILITARY. 

To  be  sent  through  proper  channels  ;  indirect  with  depart- 
ment prohibited I       3 

Officers  through  whom  sent  to  express  opinions  thereon  ..  .11       % 
To  whom  addressed ' VI     28 

COURTS  OF  INQUIRY. 

Case   of  Lieutenant  Thos.  Nail,  Company  B,  5th  Georgia 

volunteers 29 

Case  of  Captain  H.  T.  Blocker,  P.  A.  C.  S 40 

Case  of  Colonel  R.  IL  Chilton,  A.  A.  G 64 

Case  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Eugene  E.  McLean,  A.  Q.  M. 

General 81 

COURTS-MARTIAL. 

Not  to   cause    any    soldier   to    be   punished   by   whipping. 

{Sfc.  1.) 44 

Note. — For  trials  by,  see  "Militory   Trials." 
DECEASED  SOI-DIERS. 

Effects  of  (except  clothing):  how  disposed  of Ill     CT 

Clothing  of,  in  hospitals;   how  disposed  of I     4a 

Appraisement  of  clothing  of,  to  bo  made  after  being  washed 

and  put  in  condition 93 

Commutation  of  transportation  due,  may  bo  paid  to  personal 

representatives  of IV     31 

Act  relating  to  settlement  of  claims  for  pay,  etc.,  due,  con- 
tinued in  force  until  otherwise  provided I  108 

DEPARTMENT  LIMITS. 

Of  Ijieutenant-General  Longstreet II     34 

Of  General  R.  E.  Lee II     34 

Of  Major-General  Elzey II     34 

Of  Major-General  D.  II.  Hill II     34 

DEPOTS. 

Permanent,    established    by    Quartermaster's    department, 

placed  under  control  of  Quartermaster-General I  114 

Location  of  permanent,  not  to  be  changed   by  dep.artment 
commander,   except,   etc.;  if  changed,   to  bo  reported  to 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office II  114 

DESERTERS. 

To  be  arrested  by  enrolling  officers II       1 


XX  INDEX. 

Who  bave  joined  oth«sr  companies  to  be  returned  to  original 

commanders II     19 

How  punished 44 

Conscripts  leaving  employment  without  proper  authority, 
punished  as Ill     30 

Found  within  the  lines  of  any  commanding  general  to  be  ar- 
rested and  turned  over  to  nearest  enrolling  officer  to  be 
forwarded  to  proper  command I  118 

Modification  of  above  order II  126 

Monthly  roll  of,  to  be  furnished  by  regimental,  battalion, 

etc.,  commanders  to  Chief  Bureau  of  Conscription I  122 

Officers  charged  with  duty  of  arresting,  to  report  to  and  co- 
operate with  commandant  of  conscripts  of  state  to  which 
sent i II  122 

Will  not  be  granted  permits  by  recruiting  officers  and  others, 

to  visit  or  remain  at  their  homes  for  any  purpose I  135 

Horses  of,  can  not  be  retained  in  service  and  used  to  mount 

another  soldier  deficient  in  a  horse Page  230 

DETAILS. 

Of  conscripts  in  employment  of  railroads  to  be  decided  by 

military  superintendent  of  transportation  . . . ; VIII       2 

Not  to  be  made  from  cavalry  companies  to  act  as  guides  and 

couriers  for  head-quarters Ill       7 

Men  on,  leaving  employment  without  permission,  to  be  re- 
ported to  nearest  enrolling  officer,  and  treated  as  desert- 
ers  Ill    30 

Men  on,  in  government  establishments  not  to  be  received  in 
other  government  establishments,  or  by  contractors,  with- 
out proper  discharge  from  previous  employment I     30 

Of  competent  clerk  to  issue  furloughs  granted  bj'  examining 

board II     69 

Enlisted  men  may  be,  to  perform  duties  now  performed  by 

commissary  sergeant,  with  extra  pay  of  $20  per  mouth. . .   I     70 

Men  on  (except  clerks  in  City  of  Richmond),  pay  not  to  ex- 
ceed $3  per  day.     {Seel.) II     75 

Maximum  allowance  to  men  on,  only  paid  at  posts  or  sta- 
tions without  troops,  etc.     (»S'ec.  2.) II     75 

Hate  of  allowance  to  men  on,  serving  at  head-quarters,  ord- 
nance, etc. J  how  fixed;  not  to  excead  $1  25  per  diem,  ex- 
cept, etc.     [Sec.  S.) II     75 

Extra  compensation  to  men  on  ;   by  whom  paid;  to  be  in 

full  of  all  allowance  except  compiiny  pay.     {Sec.  4.)  ....  .II     75 


INliKX.  XXI 

Of  shoemakers  ;  fixing  pay.     (i9cc.  5.) II     7S 

Pa.vnicnts  under  act  May  1  to  men  on,  not  to  be  continued 

beyond  December  31,  1863.     (Sec.  6.) II     75 

Payments  to  men  on;  each  bureau  may  prescribe  general 

regulations  for.     {Sec.  7.) II     7b 

Infantry  soldier  on,  as  courier  allowed  40  cents  per  day  for 

use  and  risk  of  horse 77 

Sohlicra  not  deemed  subjects  for  discharge  under  paragraph 
IV,  General  Orders,  No.  G9,  Confederate  States,  may  re- 
ceive, as  nurses,  guards,  etc. I     96 

Soldiers  receiving,  under  above  paragraph,  to  be  relieved 

when  fit  for  field  duty II     96 

Of  disabled  soldiers  may  be  made  to  act  as  clerks  in  Com- 
missary .and  Quartermaster's  departments I  105 

Of  convalescents  in  general  hospitals  recommended  by  hos- 
pital boards,  may  be  made  by  commandant  of  conscripts 
for  bridge  and  railroad  guards,  etc 137 

In  above  cases,  to  cease  at  time  indicated  by  examinations 
of  board 137 

DISCHARGES. 

Act  granting,  to  persons  in  military  service,  appointed  or 

elected  to  certain  civil  offices.     April  2,  18G3 I     48 

In  case  of  soldier  present  with  command  ;  how  effected I     51 

In  case  of  soldier  absent  from  commaud;  how  effected  .  • .  .Ill     51 
In  case  of,  under  above  paragraph,  and  final  statements  can 

not  bo  had  ;  how  mustered  for  payment V     61 

Due  notice  of,  under  this  act,  to  be  forwarded  to  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-General's  office,  and  to  immediate  company 

commander VI     51 

In  case  of  soldier  in  hospital ;  how  elTected IV  .  69 

In  case  of,  under  above  paragraph  and  final  statements,  etc., 

can  not  be  had  ;  how  mustered  for  payment VI     69 

Notices  of,  to  be  forwarded  weekly  to  Adjutant  and  Inspec- 
tor-General's office,  and  to  immediate  company  command- 
er of  soldier VII     69 

Of  detailed  men  absent  from  command,  when  disbanded,  to 

be  ordered  by  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General Ill     80 

Form  of,  by  reason  of  substitute 87 

For  disability,  held  as  conditional,  and  only  valid  during  its 

continuance 89 

May  be  granted  to  persons  between  forty  and  forty-five  in 

organizations  for  local  defence XII     86 


XXn  INlJKX. 

Soldiers  not  subjects  for,  under  paragraph  TV,  General  Or- 
ders, No.  69,  Confederate  States,  because  of  fitness  for 
service  in  staff  departments,  may  be  detailed  by  command- 
ing generals  as  nurses,  guards,  etc I     96 

Soldiers   receiving,    delayed   at   way   hospitals,  entitled   to 

rations '• V     96 

Persons  between  eighteen  and  forty-five,belonging  to  organi- 
zations for  local  defence  will  receive,  unless  exempt  from 
military  duty H     98 

To  conscripts  pronounced  fit  for  service  by  proper  boards 
and  sent  to  camps  of  instruction  or  to  regiments  in  field; 
how  granted I  107 

To  conscripts  atcamps  of  instruction  supposed  to  be  disquali- 
fied for  service ;  how  granted II  107 

To  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals;  how  granted 103 

Taking  a  contract  to  carry  the  mail  does  not  entitle  soldier 
to Page  230 

DISABLED  SOLDIERS. 

Details  of,  may  be  made  for  service  as  clerks  in  Commissary 

and  Quartermaster  departments I  105 

Permanently,  holding  certificates  of  examining  board  to  that 
effect  and  who  are  not  discharged,  entitled  to  have  rations 

commuted  at  $1  25  per  day I  150 

DOMICIL. 

Opinion  of  Attorney-General  concerning Page  227 

Fact  of  having  acquired ;  how  established Page  227 

Decision  of  question  of;  how  arrived  at Page  227 

DRUNKENNESS. 

Act  to  punish  in  army.     April  21,  1862 I     34 

Officers  on  or  off  duty  convicted  of;  how  punished.     {Sec.  1.)  I     34 

'  Duty  of  all  officers  to  report  cases  of.     {Sec.  2.) I     34 

Findings  of  court  in  cases  of,  to  be  transmitted  tQ  Secretary 
of  War  for  approval ;  to  be  reported  to  Congress  at  next 
session  thereafter.     {Sec.  2.) I     34 

ELECTIONS. 

For  members  of  General  Assembly,  State  of  Virginia;  act  of 
General  Assembly  published  for  information  of  such  as  it 

coucerns I     38 

Majority  of  votes  cast  at,  necessary  to  a  choice IV     80 

Can  not  be  held  for  first  lieutenant Page  231 

ENGINEER  CORPS. 

Officers  of,  on  reconnoissauces,  etc.,  may  be  allowed  per- 
sonal expenses,  in  lieu  of  other  allowances II     49 


INDEX.  xxiii 

"Act  to  proTide  and  organize  engineer  troops  to  serve  dur- 
ing the  war." J       QQ 

Sec.  1.     One  company  to  be  jclcotcd  from  each  division 

of  infantr.v  :  men,  how  chosen  ;  to  serve  how  long, ...   I     66 
Sec.  2.     Fixes  number  of  non-commissioned  oflicers,  ar- 
tificers, and  laborers  for  each  company I     66 

Sec.  3.     Fixes  number  of  commissioned  officers;  origi- 
nal vacancies,  how  filled ;  who  shall  not  be  selected. .    I     66 
Sec.  4.     Companies    to    he   organized    into    regiments,-  or- 
ganizing field  and  staff;  vacancies,  how  filled;  sergeant- 
major  and  quartermaster-sergeant,  how  selected I     66 

Sec.  5.     Assigning  two  companies  of  each  regiment  to  duty 

as  pontoniers j     (((• 

Sec.  6.     Prescribes    number    and    size    of    wagons,    pon- 
toons, etc T      ca 

Sec.  7     Vacancies  in  establi.shed  regiments  to  rank  of  col- 
onel filled  by  promotion,  regimentally,  except,  etc I     66 

Sec.  8.     Monthly  pay  of  officer*! I     66 

Sec.  9.     Monthly  pay  of  enlisted  men I     66 

Sec.  10.     Mounted   engineer  troops  may  be   selected   from 

cavalry j     66 

Regulations  by  Secretary  of  War  for  selection  and  organiza- 
tion   under  foregoing  act U     66 

Duties  of,  and  instructions  to  officers  of,  serving  in  the  field.       90 
ENGINEER  CORPS— DUTIES  OF. 

Officers  of  engineer  troops  serving  in  field  same  as  oflicers  of.   I  lO-l 
ENGINEER  TROOPS. 

Duties  of  ofTiccrs  of,  when  in  the  field  same   as  "officers  of 

engineers  serving  with  Armies  of  the  Confederate  States"  I  104 

On  the  march,  will  serve  as  pioneers II  104 

Will  be  employed  in  making  rapid  reconnoissances II  104 

During  battle,  how  used II  104 

General  duties  of II  104 

^     Will  be  drilled  and  instructed  in  diKies  of  engineer  soldiers 

by  battalions  and  regiments Ill  104 

Companies  of,  serving  with  an  army,  to  be  kept  together. .  .Ill  104 

Will  be  furnished  with  light  arms Ill  104 

EnlrcncLing  tools  will  be  issued    to,    by  Engineer  depart- 
ment  ni  104 

Each  company  of  will  bo  provided  with  horses,  teams,  etc., 

for  transportation  of  tools,  etc IV   104 

Additional  horses  to  be  furnished  for  use  of  oflicers  and  non- 


XXIV  INDEX. 

commissioned  officers  in  making  rapid  reconnoissances, 

etc IV  104 

OlTiccrs  of,  and  of  engineer  corps  engaged   on  same  service, 

senior  to  control  location  and  construction  of  defences,  etc.V  104 

Will,  in  all  cases,  be  under  command  of  own  ofiicers V  104 

Officers  of  engineer  corps  will  not  assume  command  of V  104 

ENROLLING  OFFICERS— DUTIES  OF. 

May  grant  certificates  of  exemption I       1 

To  arrest  stragglers  and  deserters II       J 

To  furnish  monthly  roll  of  conscripts  to  commandants  camp 

of  instruction Ill       1 

To  permit  enrolled  conscripts  to  remain  on  railroads  until 
otherwise  decided  by  the  militarj'  superintendent  of  trans- 
portation   VIII       2 

To  hasten  forward   to  Petersburg   conscripts   from    certain 

counties I       4 

To  enroll  route  agents  of  Post-office  department,  and  grant 

exemption  during  continuance  of  appointments I       7 

Not  to  removc'or  interfere  with  employees  in  nitre,  lead,  or 
copper  works,  or  furnaces  worked  for  government,  without 
consent  of  officers  in  charge I     32 

To  enroll  detailed  men,  of  conscript  age,  absent  from  com- 
mands when  disbanded Ill     80 

Names  of  officers  dropped  from  rolls  to  be  furnished  to. . .  .II     24 

ENROLLING  OFFICERS. 

To  enroll  all  white  male  residents  of  the  Confederate  States 
between  eighteen  and  forty-five  not  in  service,  and  who 
are  not  exempt  by  law I     98 

To  enroll  persons  of  conscript  age  discharged  under  this  or- 
der from  organizations  for  local  defence II     98 

To  enroll  principals  whose  substitutes  have  deserted,  etc.  .Ill     98 

To  enroll  citizens  employed   as  clerks  in  Commissary   and 

Quartermaster's  departments,  if  not  exempt II  105 

To  receive  deserters  turned  over  by  commanding  officers,  and 
forward  them  to  proper  commands  ;  in  case  of  conscripts, 
to  assign  them  to  nearest  army,  at  discretion. ...   I  llfi 

To  receive  deserters  turned  over  by  commanding  officers,  and 
forward  them  to  proper  commands ;  in  case  of  conscripts, 
to  assign  them  to  nearest  army,  at  discretion I  126 

One  to  be  attached  to  each  department  to  carry  out  pur- 
poses indicated  above II  116 

To  assist  in  collecting  arms  left  by  stragglers  in   hands  of 

citizens II   119 


INDEX.  XXV 

To  arrest  persons  reported  absent  without  authority  by 
company  commanders II  130 

To  Iceop  register  of  names  of  soldiers  on  furlough  who  report 

to  him;  descriptive  list,  length  of  furlough,  etc.,  etc II  141 

To  order  soldiers,  whose  furloughs  have  expired  and  who  are 
unable  to  triivel,  before  board  for  examination  of  conscripts, 
for  extension  of  furlough Ill  141 

Duties  of,  when  soldier  is  physically  unable  to  appear  be- 
fore board II  157 

To  send  soldiers  to  nearest  camp  of  instruction  for  hospital 
treatment  in  cases  of  sickness  and  wounds  which  are  neg- 
lected, etc IV  141 

EXEMPTION. 

Of  white  male  citir.cns  between  eighteerr and  forty, under  act 

October  II,  1862 I       1 

Not  to  take  place  until  after  enrolment I       1 

Certificates  of,  granted  by  enrolling  ollicer I       1 

Doubtful  cases  referred  to  commandant  camp  of  instruction 

or  bureau  at  Richmond I       1 

Route-agents  of  Post-office  department,  after  eni-olment,  to 
be   furnished  with  certificates   of,  during  continuance  of 

appointments I       7 

Certificates  of,  granted  by  regular  enrolling  olficers,  to  bo 
respected  by  oflicers  acting  under  authority  of  circular  of 

Januarys,    1863 j... I     16 

Certificates  of,  not  to  be  issued  by  oESccrs  actiug  under  au- 
thority of  circular  of  January  8,  1863 I     16 

Examining  surgeon  to  fix  periods  for  which  granted Ill     22 

Grounds  not   deemed  sufficient  for IV     22 

Temporar}',  not   to   be  given  for  a  "  period  beyond  thirty 

days"    II     39 

"  Act  of,"  approved  April  14,  1863 44 

Sec.  1.  Mail  contractors,  while  so  employed;  not  more 
than  one  on  each  route,-  only  one  member  of  any  firm  ; 
no  contractor  on  route  less  than  ten  miles,  and  on 
which  mail  is  carried  on  horse;  if  any  member  of  firm 
is  exempt,  other  members  not  to  be  exempt  by  this 
act.     If    contract  be    transferred,    sub-contractor    not 

exempt 44 

Sec.  2.     Drivers  of  post-coaches  and  hacks 44 

Meml'ors  of  organizations  for  local  defence  entitled  to  from 

militia  duty X     86 

16 


XXVI  INDEX. 

Persons  discharged  for  temporary  disability  no< entitled  to'.         89 

Act  repealing  certain  clauses  of  act  of,  approved  October  11, 

1862.     Approved  May  1,  1863 1108 

To  repeal  certain  clauses  of  act  of,  approved  October  11,1 862. 

(April    16,  186.3) 108 

All  who  have  received  temporary,  for  disability,  must  be  re- 
examined, etc II  135 

FORAGE. 

In  kind,  for  one  horse  each,  issued  to  officers  entitled  to  it 

serving  at  post  not  in  field I  151 

Commutation  of  $8  per  month  maybe  allowed  for  each  horse 

to  which  officer  may  be  entitled,  etc I  151 

Who  are  included  in  thi«  order II  151 

How  supplied  to  detachments  unaccompanied  by  quarter- 
masters,   etc 1155 

May  be  commuted  in  advance  to  small  detachments  sent  off 

unaccompanied  by  commissioned  officer II  155 

If  not  commuted  in  advance,  expenditures  incurred  for  by 

officer  in  command,  how  reimbursed II  155 

FREIGHT— REGULATIONS. 

Railroad;  what  shall  take  precedence;  how  designated. .  .Ill     2 
To  be  moved  by  railroad ;    military  officer  in  charge  to  fix 

time  of  departure  with  railroad  officers IV       2 

Quartermasters  and  commissaries  to   exercise  discretion   in 

shipping VI      2 

Messengers  with ;  transportation,  bpw  specified VII       2 

FUEL. 

Tp  be  issued  to  officers  of  army  engaged  in  enrolling  con- 
scripts  II     12 

FURLOUGHS. 

On  certificates  of  disability  approved  by  senior  surgeon  of 
post  may  be  granted  by  commandant  of  post,  not  to  ex- 
ceed thirty  days ;  for  longer  period,  must  be  approved  by 
general  to  whose  command  soldier  belongs I     14 

Non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  entitled  to,  under 
act  December  11,  1861,  and  April  16,  1862,  may  receive 
commutation  of  transportation  home  and  back,  to  be  paid 
by  regimental  quartermaster  at  the  rate  of  two  and  a  half 
cents  per   mile IV     20 

Enlisted  men  entitled  to,  under  above  acts,  who  have  died 
or  may  die  before  receipt  thereof,  commutation  of  trans- 
portation may  be  paid  to  personal  representative IV      31 


INDEX.  XXVU 

Enlisted  men  entitled  to,  under  above  acts,  if  promoted 
prior  to  the  receipt  of,  may  draw  commutation V       31 

To  soldiers  present  with  command,  may  be  granted  by  de- 
partment commander  on  surgeon's   certificate II     51 

To  soldier  absent  from  command,  may  be  granted  for  thirty 

days  by  commander  of  post,  on  surgeon's  certificate IV     61 

When  granted  by  medical  examining  boards,  to  specify 
length  of  furlough,  place  of  residence,  company,  regi- 
ment, etc II    69 

Cases  of,  granted  bj'  medical  examining  board,  to  be  report- 
ed to  Surgeon-General Ill     69 

Improperly  granted  by  examining  board,  derelict  officer  held 

responsible Ill     69 

Notices  of,  by  examining  board,  to  bo  forwarded  weekly  to 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  and  to  immediate  com- 
pany commander  of  soldier VII     69 

May  be  granted  by  examining  board I,  V     69 

Can  not  bo  extended  bj^  medical  boards Ill     96 

To  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals,  how  granted 108 

Soldiers  returning  home  on,  to  report  immediately  to  near- 
est enrolling  olficer,  who  will  keep  register  of  names, 
length  of  furlough,  etc.,  etc II  141** 

At  expiration  of,  and  soldier  being  unable  to  travel  and  not 
being  near  hospital  examining  board,  extension  of,  how 
procured Ill  141 

Recommendations   for  extensions  of,  by  whom  and  in  what 

cases  given V  141 

Recommendations  for,  from  private  physicians  or  froramedi- 

cal  oflRcer  singly,  not  received V  141 

Soldiers  on,  not  permitted  to  go  within  lines  of  enemy. . .  .VI  141 

At  expiration  of,  a  soldier  not  able  to  appear  before  board, 
as  prescribed  in  paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  141  ; 
extension  of,  how  procured II  157 

GOVERNxMENT  CONTRACTORS. 

Not  to  employ,  without  proper  discharge,  employees  of  other 

contractors  for  government II     30 

Not  to  employ,  without  proper  discharge,  employees  of  other 

contractors  for  government Ill     32 

For  supply  of  p;iper,  authorized   to  send  agents  to  armies  in 

the  field '. I     80 

Commanders  of  armies  and  departments  to  give  facilities  to 

such  agents  of II    80 


XXVili  INDEX. 

HIDES. 

Establishing  price  of,  in  Trans-Mississippi  and  oast  of  Mis- 
sissippi  Ill     34 

Of  slaughtered  sheep  to  be  turned  orer  to  officers  of  Quar- 
termaster's department  to  be  tanned IV  119 

HOSPITALS. 

To  be  under  supervision  of  medical  directors  selected  for 

the  purpose V     28 

Not  to  be   interfered  with  by  medical  directors  of  armies, 

array  corps,  or  departments V     28 

On  death  of  soldier  in,  clothing,  how  disposed  of I     49 

Burgeon  in  charge  of,  to  make  separate  provision   returns 

for  persons  attached  to II     59 

Rations  for  persons  attached  to,  may  not  be  commuted  un- 
less, etc • II     59 

Separate  provision  returns  for  sick  and  wounded  in,  made 

according  to  form  annexed II     59 

Commuted  value  of  rations  for  patients  in,  $1  25 I     62 

Laundresses  in,  pay  $25  per  month,  rations  and  quarters.  .II     62 

Where  three  or  more,  surgeons  in  charge  to  constitute  board 

for  granting  furloughs  and  certificates  for  discharge. ...  I     69 

House-surgeon  in,  to  see  each  patient  under  his  charge  once 
each   day VIII    69 

Medical  officers  in  charge  of,  will  receive  and  care  for  sweet 
potatoes  gathered  under  tax  law,  by  commissaries  and 
quartermasters,  who  are  within  reach  of  place  where  hos- 
pitals are  located I  124 

"When  more  convenient  to  former  than  depot,  medical  officers 

to  receive  and  receipt  foi*  sweet  potatoes  (tax  in  kind.). .   I  124 

Payments  upon  affidavits  to  sick  or  wounded  in,  limited  to 

four  months'  paj' Ill  130 

For  prisoners  of  war,  on  same  footing  as  other  Confederate 

States  hospitals I  159 

Rations  for,  same  as  to  soldiers  in  field II  150 

Above  order  amended II  164 

Surgeons  in  charge  of,  to  endorse  on  furloughs  of  enlisted 
men  who  leave  hospital  on  furlough,  days  and  dates  he 
has  drawn  rations  for  them II  162 

IMPRESSMENTS  OF  PROPERTY. 

"When  necessary  for  owner's  consumption,  or  that  of  family, 

employees)  or  slaves,  prohibited I  31 


INDEX.  Xxix 

Suppliua  on  way  to  mjtrket  for  sale  on  arrival,  prohibited, 
unless  specially  ordered  by  coinuiandiag  general II     31 

"  Any  one  acting  without  or  beyond"  authority  held  respon- 
sible for TTT         O, 

Claims  for,  how  settled yj     gj 

Impressment  act t     37 

Sec.  1.  May  bo  made  by  officers  whoso  duty  it  is  to 
furnish  such  articles,  when  required  by  exigencies  of 
service ;  where  value  can  not  be  agreed  upon,  Low  de- 
termined      J        olj 

Sec.  2.  Ollicial  certificates  by  officers  making,  that  prop- 
erty is  essential  for  use  of  army;  stating  time  and 
place  when  taken,  amount  compensation  appraised, 
sum  paid;  said  certificate  evidence  for  owner  of  right 
to   compensation    fixed.     If  owner   not   paid,    entitled 

to  speedy  pay  by  proper  disbursing  officer I  37 

Sec.  3.     Appraisements,    when  impracticable   at  time  of 

impressment,  value  of  property,  how  ascertained I     37 

Sec.  4.  May  be  made  by  order  Secretary  of  War  when 
necessary  for  public  use,  to  accumulate  supplies  for 
army.     Compensation    fixed   as    by     first    and    second 

sections t     gy 

Sec.  5.  Commissioners  to  fix  prices  in  each  state,  how 
appointed,    pay;  must  bo   residents  of  itate  in    which 

appointed t     oy 

Sec.  6.     Property  in  hands  of  other  than  producers,  at 

what  rate  paid  ;  quality  of,  how  determined I     37 

Sec.  7.     Fixes  quality   of  iupplios   not  subject  to'  im- 

pr«»smcnt;  how  determined I     37 

Sec.  8.     For  temporary  use,  if  lost,  destroyed,  or  injured ; 

compensation  allowed,  how  ascertuined I     37 

Sec.  9.  If  slaves,  imprcasmcut  made  according  to  state 
laws,  if  any;  otherwis«,  under  regulations  of  Secre- 
tary of  War;  must  not  bo  impressed  if  they  can  bo 


hired . 


I    37 


Sec.  10.  Slaves  on  plantations  exclusively  producing 
grain  and  provisions  not  to  be  taken  previous  to 
December,  18C3,  without  owners' consent I     37 

Sec.  11.  Commissioned  officers  and  enlisted  men  not  to 
violate  this  act;  on  conviction  thereof,  how  pun- 
ished         T         Oy 

Recognized  by  Secretary  of  War  as  legal  for  securing  medi- 
cal, quartermaster's,  aud  subsistence  supplies  for  army  .  .II     37 


XXX  INDEX. 

May  be  made  by  commanders  of  armies,  departments,  corps, 
divisions,  brigades,  and  commanders  of  detached  parties 
and  posts II    37 

Persons  competent  to  make  to  be  designated  by  Quarter- 
master-General, Commissary-Qeneral,  and  Surgeon-Gen- 
eral   ..li    37 

When  necessary  for  supply  of  owner,  not  to  be  made 11     37 

Before  making,  impressing  officer  to  make  offer  for  same. 

{Sec.  4.) II     37 

Compensation,  in  event  of  refusal  of  price  offered;  how  set- 
tled; how  paid.     {Sec.  5.) II     37 

Pending  assessment  of  value,  property  to  remain  in  posses- 
sion of  owner.     (>S'ec.  C.) II     37 

To  be  paid  for  at  date  of  impressment,  if  practicable,  by  im- 
pressing officer ;  if  not,  how  paid.     {Sec.  7.) II     37 

If  made  before  appointment  of  commissioners,  shall  be  legal; 

conij)ensation,  how  adjusted.     (>S'ec.  8.) II     37 

Made  previous  to  passage  of  "Impressment  act;"  compen- 
sation, how  determined I     39 

Of  supplies  of  government  contractors  in  iron  or  munitions 

of  war  exempt Ill     49 

Appraisement,  if  deemed  fair  and  just,  to  be  endorsed  "ap- 
prored "  by  impressing  officer,  otherwise  to  be  finally 
revised  by  boards  of  appraisers 63 

Details  concerning,  and  schedule  of  prices  adopted  for  States 

of  Georgia  and  Virginia 65 

Of  iron,  and  by  whom  conducted II     85 

In    case   of  goods,    etc.,    supposed    to   be    concealed,    how 

made II     92 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  in  Virginia I     99 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  in  Virginia I  115 

When  covering  the  whole  of  any  one  article,  or  all  articles 
of  planters'  production  taxed  in  kind,  the  post  quarter- 
master of  district  will  transfer  to  district  collector  asses- 
sor's estimate,  to  bo  collected  in  money  value  only,  at 
rate  of  impressment  or  purchase I  117 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  in  South'Carolina I  128 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  in  Virginia I  129 

Instructions  for  carrying  into  effect  9th  section,  act  of  March 
26,  to  regulate,  in  respect  to  labor  on  fortifications,  etc., 
when  provisions  have  not  been  made  on  subject.  (See 
sialics.) 138 


INDEX.  XXXI 

Of  horses  and  other  property  in  use  in  Commissary  depart- 
ment, prohibited VI  142 

Republication  of  General  Orders,  No.  31,  on  subject  of 144 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  in  Virginia 146 

Schedule  of  prices  adopted  for,  in  Virginia 160 

Amendment  to  paragraph  II,  section  6,  Qener.al  Orders,  No. 

37,  Confederate  States,  on  subject  of 161 

In  cases  of,  whore  price  offered  is  refused;  compensation, 

how  settled 161 

In  cases  of,  where  impressing  officer  deems  appraisement 
fair,  to  endorse  on  it  his  approval,  otherwise  his  disappro- 
val; final  appraisement,  by  whom  made 161 

IRREGULARITIES. 

Troops  on  battle-field  not  to  exchange  arms  and  field-pieces 
for  those  captured  from  enemy,  without  proper  au- 
thority  Ill     10 

Regulations  to  prevent,  in  partisan  rangers 82 

LAUNDRESSES. 

In  hospitals,  pay  of  $25  per  month,  rations  and  quarters  .  .II     62 
Just  dues  of  excepted,  where  courts-martial  sentence   for- 
feiture of  pay Ill     17 

LEATHER. 

Purchased  or  contracted  for  by  Ordnance  department  not 

to  bo  interfered  with  by  Quartermaster's  department. .  .VIII     28 

LEAVES  OF  ABSENCE. 

Can  not  be  granted  by  examining  boards  or  post  command- 
ers. Can  only  recommend  for  consideration  of  depart- 
ment or  army  commander X     69 

Can  not  be  extended  by  boards  of  examiners  or  by  post  com- 
manders  Ill     ^^ 

RocommendatiuiiS  for  extensions  of,  by  whom,  and  in  what 

cases  given V  141 

Recoinmeudations  for,  by  private  physicians  or   by  medical 

ollicer  singly,  not  received V  141 

LOCAL  DEFENCE. 

Organizations  for,  composed. of  persons  under  eightoon  and 
over  furt3',  will  bo  accepted I     86 

Organizations  of  companies  for,  to  conform  to  that  of  com- 
panies, battalions,  etc.,  of  Provisional  army II     86 

Cavalry  companies  for,  to  furnish  own  horses II     86 

Furnishing  own  horses  for,  to  receive  forty  cents  per  day 

for  hire II     86 


XXXil  INDEX. 

Muster-rolls  of  organizations  for,  shall  specify,  etc Ill     86 

Organizations  for,  not  considered  in  actual  service  except 
when  called  for  by  President IV     86 

Organizations  for,  not  called  for  except  in  case  of  necessity, 
and  not  required  to  go  beyond  limits  of  state  to  which 
belong •. V     86 

Organizations  for,  to  serve  only  so  long  as  emergency 
exists VI    86 

Arms    and     ammunition    for,    furnished     by    Confederate 

States VII    86 

Members  of  organizations  for,  if  captured,  will  be  demanded 

as  prisoners  of  war VIII     86 

Field-officers  of  organizations  for,  appointed  by  President. IX     86 

Members  of  organizations  for,  exempt  from  militia  calls  . .  .X     86 

Muster-rolls  may  be  certified  by  any  military  commander, 
sheriff  of  county,  etc XI     86 

Persons  between  forty  and  forty-five  in  organizations  for, 
may  be  transferred  or  discharged  should  conscription 
extend  to  those  ages XII     86 

Organizations  composed  of  persons  under  eighteen  and 
over  forty-five  may  be  accepted  for II     98 

Persons  belonging  to  organizations  for,  between  ages  of 
eighteen  and  forty-five,  uultss  exempt  by  law,  will  be  » 

discharged,  and  reported  to  Bureau  of  Conscription  for 
enrolment II     98 

Persons  engaged  in  working  nitre  not  to  be  called  for,  ex- 
cept, etc.,  etc 127 

Members   of  organizations  for,   liable  to  conscription,  to  bo 

discharged  and  conscribed,  except,  etc II  150 

MEDICAL  DIRECTORS. 

Senior  surgeon  of  commands  entitled  to,  will  be  detailed  as; 
when  interest  of  service  requires  it,  will  be  recommended 

by  Surgeon-General I     23 

Of  armies,  etc.,  not  to  interfere  with  general  hospitals V     28 

Of  hospitals  will  be  announced;  duties  of V     23 

MEDICAL  OFFICERS. 

In  giving  certificates  of  disability,  to  confine  themselves  to 

established  forms IV       7 

.       Will  abstain  from  recommending  light  duty IV       7 

Employed  to  examine  conscripts  may,  under  certain  cir- 
cumstances, be  selected  from  districts  in  which  they  are 
to  act Ill       9 


INDEX.  XXXlll 

Under  authority  of  commandauts  of  conscripts,  may  consti- 
tute boards  for  examination  of  conscripts Ill     15 

In   exaniinatiun  of  conscripts,  to   exercise  sound  and  firm 

discretion I     22 

To  accept  conscripts  when  equal  to  active  duties  of  various 

occupations  of  civil  life II     22 

In  granting  temporary  exemption  to  conscripts,  to  fix  period 

for  which  granted Ill     22 

Will  not  grant  temporary  exemption  for  period  longer  than 

thirty  days II     39 

In  charge  of  hos])ita1s,  to  make  an  inventory  and  appraise- 
ment of  clothing  of  deceased  soldiers,  to  be  forwarded  to 
Second  Auditor ;  articles  to  bo  turned  over  to  quarter- 
master for  rciiisue I     49 

In  charge  of  hospitals,  to  make  separate  provision  returns 
for  persons  attached,  and  for  sick,  and  wounded  ;  form 
annexed II     59 

Compensation  to,  emploj-ed  under  act  approved  October  11, 
1862,  to  examine  conscripts;  how  and  by  whom  paid.... IV  107 

Inspectors  will  be  recommended  by  Surgeon-General,  and 
announced  in  orders  from  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gen- 
eral's office Ill  11 9 

In  charge  of  boFpitals  to  receive,  take  care,  and  recei)it  for 
sweet  potatoes  gathered  under  tax  law  by  certain  commis- 
saries and    quartermasters I  124 

In  charge  of  hopitals,  in  certain  cases  must  receive  and  re- 
ceipt  for  sweet  potatoes  (tax  in  kind)  from  farmers I  124 

"Assistant  Medical  Directors"  and  "Assistant  Medical  In- 
spectors "  not  being  authorized,  titles  not  to  be  used. . .  .Ill  124 

Attention  of,  called  to  paragraph  VII,  General  Orders,  No. 
69,  current  series I  ISO 

MILITARY  COURTS. 

Organized  under  act  approved  October  9,  1862,  to  be  gov- 
erned and  controlled  by  Articles  of  War  and  Regulations 

of  Army I     H 

Proceedings  of,  subject  to  review  by  commanding  general. .   I     11 
Original  proceedings  of,  after  final  action,  to  be  transmitted 

to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office I     11 

Additional  appointments  of  members  of I     17 

Where  sentence  of  directs   forfeiture  of  pay,  just  dues  of 

laundress  are  excepted Ill     17 

Not  to  cause  any  soldier  to  be  punished  by  whipping 44 


XXXIV  INDEX. 

To   amend  an   act  orgaaizing,  approved   October  9,   1862. 

Approved  May  1,  1863 108 

Olio  additional  may  bo  organized  and  attached   to   any  de- 
partment, at  discretion  of  the  President 108 

MILITARY  REPORTS. 

Of  sieges,  campaigns,  and  battles,  to  contain  only  statement 

of  facts  and  events  connected  with  subject  matter ?6 

MILITARY  SUPERINTENDENT  OP  RAILROADS. 

Violation  of  orders  concerning  railroads  by  railroad  officers 

to  be  reported  to IX       2 

To  indicate,  from  time  to  time,  his  head-quarters. ...... .IX       2 

MILITARY  STOREKEEPERS. 

Act  to  provide  for  appointment  of  (May  I,  1863.) 108 

Pay  and  allowances  of 108 

Who  shall  be  appointed 103 

MILITARY  TRIALS. 

Case  of  Captain  H.  B.  Latrobe. I     2*1 

"        Private  J.  T.  Wilder,  Company  E,  4th  Georgia  vol- 
unteers  II    27 

"        Major  M.  R.  Marks,  2d  Alabama  cavalry I     35 

"        Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  Alabama  cavalry I     35 

"        Lieutenant  Mason  G.  Anderson,  Company  G,  31st 

Mississippi  volunteers 41 

"        Major  Kirkwood  Otoy,  11th  Virginia  infantry 42 

"        Lieutenant  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  1st  Virginia  in- 
fantry          43 

"        Major  Elias  Griswold,  P.  A.  C.  S...-. 46 

"        Lieutenant  J.  W.  Gibson,  Company  D,  22d  Missis- 
sippi volunteers 50 

"        Private  Granville  S.  McCutchen,  Company  C,  22d 

Virginia  volunteers 52 

"        Surgeon  Edward  Cross,  31st  Arkansas  volunteers. .         54 
"        Captain  John  W.  Bell,  quartermaster  49th  Virginia 

volunteers 55 

"        Lieutenant  J.  K.  Martin,  22d  North  Carolina  vol- 
unteers          56 

"         Lieutenant  Robt.  W.  Sanders,  Sth  Alabama   volun- 
teers           63 

"         Captain  J.  Q.  Arnold,  12th  battalion  Tennessee  cav- 

'  airy 68 

"         Captain  Wm.  S.  Rowan,  Company  A,  60th  Virginia 

volunteers 72 


INDEX.  XXXV 

Case  of  Captain    W.  W.  W.    Wood,   Company    L,    Blythe'a 

Mississippi  regiment.    78 

"         Private  Allen  Matthews,   Company  E,  6th  Virginia 

infantry 78 

"         Private  George  -Mormon,  Company  C,  8th  Alabama 

volunteers 79 

"         Major-Gencral  John  P.  McCown,  P.  A.  C.   S 8J 

"         Lieutenant-Colonel  C.    C.    Flowerreo,  7th   Virginia 

infantry 91 

"         Private  M.    Ricket,    Company  H,   27th  Virginia  in- 
fantry   X I     95 

"         Private  Wm.  G.  Clark,  Stuart's  horse  artillery II     95 

"  Private  J.  R.  Humphreys,  Stuurt's  horse  artillery.  .II  95 
"  Private  Jno.  Q.  Childres,  Company  Q,  5th  Florida. HI  95 
"         Private    Henry    Smith,    Company  E,  22d  battalion 

Georgia  artillery .IV     95 

"         Assistant  Surgeon  W.  T.  Lockhart,  P.  A.  C.  S VI     95 

"         Captain  W.  S.  Reed,  President's  Guard VHI     95 

"         Second  Lieutenant  H.  J.  Ballentine,  47th  Tennessee 

regiment X     95 

"  First  Lieutenant  Israel  P.  Guy,  I6th  Alabama. . .  .XII  95 
"         Private  Grif.  Nunnally,  Company   C,  4lst  Virginia 

regiment > XIV     95 

"  Private  C.  Edgeworth,  Company  E,  .3d  Georgia...  97 
"         Z.  M.    Kent,    3d    Company,    battalion    Washington 

Artillery I  100 

"         Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q.  M II  100 

"         Captain  J.  J.  Maguire,   Company  H,    Aiken's  parti- 
san   rangers Ill  100 

"         Lieutenant  J.  B.  Countiss,  21st  Georgia  regiment..   I  101 
"         Private  John  Whitehead,  Company  F,  16th  Tennes- 
see  regiment I  106 

"         Private  L.  H.  Toole,  Company  E,  3d  Georgia  regi- 
ment   '. , II  106 

"         Major  Wm.  Norris,  Chief  of  the  Signal  Corps I  112 

"         Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q.  M.,  P.  A.  C.  S I  120 

"         Lieutenant  J.  M.  Youngblood,   Company  B,  2d  Mis- 
sissippi batt.alion I  134 

"         Lieutenant   E.     M.    P.    Brown,     Company    H,    8th 

Georgia  battalion I  139 

"         Sergeant    Abner     Underwood,    Company    D,     8th 

Georgia I  139 

"        Private  T.  P.Wood I  139 


XXXVl  INDEX. 

Case  of  Private  T.  W.  Cannon I  139 

"         Private  Wm.   Garner I  139 

"         Private  T.  Roberts,  Company  B. I  139 

"         Private  Dan'l  Hollis,  Company  B I  139 

"         Private  Stephen  Outlaw,  Troop  A,  5th  Georgia  cav- 
alry  II  139 

"       '  Lieutenant-Colonel  A.  C.  Edwards II  139 

"         Lieutenant  James  M.  Chesser,  47th  Georgia  volun- 
teers  II  139 

"         Lieutenant  J.  J.  Wortham,  Waccamaw  light  artil- 
lery  Ill  139 

"         Lieutenant  W.  J.   Gore Ill  139 

"         Lieutenant   L.  A.  Rice,  2d   regiment  South    Caro- 
lina  volunteers Ill  139 

"         Lieutenant  W.  C.   Pruitt,   Company  E,   20th  South 

Carolina  volunteers    Ill  139 

"         Private  C.  H.  Kent,  Company  D,  18th  Virginia  bat- 
talion  Ill  139 

"         Private     Major   Runnels,    Company   H,   2d    South 

Carolina   rifles Ill  139 

"         Captain  R.  Y.    L.  Long,  Company  D,    Phillips'  le- 
gion cavalry Ill  139 

"         Captain  R.  Z.  Harlee,  Company  D,  10th  South  Car- 
olina volunteers Ill  139 

"         Private  Henry  Taylor,  Company  F,  11th   Mississip- 
pi volunteers Ill  139 

"         Private    Freeman   W.  Johnson,    Read's   light    bat- 
tery  Ill  139 

"         Private  Jno.  Duncan,  Company  F,  3d  Tennessee.  .Ill  189 
"         Lieutenant  E.  H.  Ilammell,  Company  B,  8th  Arkan- 
sas volunteers Ill  139 

"         Private  T.  W.  Barlow,  Game's  light   artillery. .  .Ill  139 
"         Lieutenant    J.    11.    Simmons,     Company    E,     12th 

Georgia Ill  139 

"         Lieutenant  E.  S.  McClung,  McClung's  battery ..  .Ill  139 

"         Major-General  Mansfield  Lovell,  P.  A.  C.  S 152 

"         Colonel  R.  M.  Mayo,  47tli  Virginia  regiment I  156 

No.   Par.  MODIFICATIONS. 
7  III     Allowing  40  cents  per  day  for  use  and  risk  of  horse,  by  Gener- 
al Orders,  No.  77. 

22  Conscripts  examined  prior  to  the  order,  to  be  re-examined. 

See  General  Orders,  No.  39,  paragraph  I. 


INDEX.  XXXVll 

28  IV  Modifiod  by  Genornl  Orders,  No.  57,  so  as  to  allow  payment 
of  officers  in  hospitals,  without  ccrtificato  of  last  payment; 
quartermasters  making  said  payment  will  still  furnish  cer- 
tificate. 

30  II     Amended  by  this  addition  :     "  The  bureau  or  department  for 

the  service  of  which  the  details  were  made."  See  General 
Orders,  No.  32,  paragraph  III. 

31  IV     To  be  paid  by  Second  Auditor. 

31  V  Quartermaster's  department,  certified  by  commanding  officer 
of  regiment  to  which  claimant  belonged  at  date  of  promo- 
tion.    See  General  Orclcrs,  No.  33,  paragraph  V. 

36  Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  102,  and  travelling  expenses 

to  be  paid  out  of  funds  appropriated  for  expenses  of  said 
bureau. 

37  I     Sec.  6.  Amended  by  act  of  April  27,  1863.     Sec  General  Or- 

ders, No.  bt. 

87     II     iSVc.  2.  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  ."9,  paragraph  I. 

49  I  Money  and  other  effects  disposed  of  as  directed  in  General 
Order.s,  No.  67,  paragraph  III:  also,  modified  by  General 
Orders,  No.  93,  which  orders  that  the  appraisement  be 
made  after  clothing  has  been  washed  and  repaired,  and  will 
approximate  to  the  government  prices  at  which  issued. 

61  III,  lY,  and  V  are  rescinded,  and  matters  therein  contained  are 
regulated  by  General  Orders,  No.  59. 

61  I  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  141,  paragraph  V,  requiring 
that  all  certificates  bo  given  by  authorized  boards  of  ex- 
aminers, and  not  by  single  medical  officer. 

67  Extended  by  General  Orders,  No.  157,  to  include  officers  of 

the  Commissary  department,  and  such  agents  of  that  de- 
partment appointed  by  Secretarj'  of  War. 

87  I  Extended  by  General  Orders,  No.  133,  paragraph  II,  to  offi- 
cers in  Conscription  bureau — payments  to  be  made  out  of 
funds  of  that  bureau ;  also,  extended  by  General  Orders, 
No.  J  35,  paragraph  V,  to  officer.s  of  Major  Cole's  depart- 
ment. 

69  IV  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  96.  paragraph  I,  which  or- 
ders that  soldiers  not  discharged  because  fit  for  service  in 
staff  departments,  will  bo  recommended  for  such  detail. 

69  X  Amended  to  prohibit  extension;  also,  of  leaves  of  absence 
and  furloughs. 

86  I  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  98,  paragraph  II,  to  raise 
age  to  45 ;  and  to  order  that  all  who  are  of  conscript  age, 


XXXVlll  INDEX. 

and  neither  exempted  by  law  nor  already  in  service,  be 
conscripted. 
87  Modified  bj'  General  Orders,  No.  98,  paragraph  III,  ordering 

principal  to  bo  conseribed,  when  services  of  substitute  arc 
lost  from  any  cause  other  than  casualties  of  war. 

116  I  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  126,  making  it  duty  of  en- 
rolling (fEScer  to  assign  conscripts  to  service,  at  the  discre- 
tion of  commandant  of  conscripts  in  the  state. 

122  I  Altered  and  enlarged  by  General  Orders,  No.  125,  paragraph 
VII,  requiring  statement  as  to  whether  the  substitute  is  now 
serving  ;  and  if  not,  why  ? 

141  III  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  157,  paragraph  II,  allowing 
soldier,  when  unable  to  travel,  to  send  certificate  of  his  at- 
tending physician,  said  certificate  to  be  submitted  to  board, 
jrho  will  act  on  it. 

MUSTER  AND  PAY  ROLLS. 

Company  commanders  to  note  on,  commutation  of  transpor- 
tation received  by  soldiers  in  lieu  of  furloughs  authorized 
by  acts  approved  December  11,  1861,  and  April  16,  1862. VI     20 

Payments  to  men  for  arms  furnished  by  them  to  be  noted  on.   I       9 

MUSTERS. 

For  payment  in  cases  of  men  discharged  when  final  state- 
ment can  not  be  had V      51 

Rolls  of  organizations  for  local  defence  shall  specify,  etc.  .Ill     86 
Of  troops  called  out  by  Governor  of  Virginia;  by  whom  and 

when  made II       4 

NITRE  BUREAU. 

Superintendent  of,  authorized  to  enforce  existing  contracts 
in  iron,  lead,  etc. ;  and  when  not  promptly  delivered,  may 

be  seized II     14 

Where  contract  with  has  been  violated,  after  ten  days'  no- 
tice, all  detailed  men  or  conscripts  to  be  withdrawn II     14 

Employees  of,  not  to  be  interfered  with  by  enrolling  or  re- 
cruiting officers,  without  consent  of  officer  in  charge I     32 

Superintendent  of,  authorized  to  pay  actual  expenses  of 
officers  of,  on  duty  under  orders,  in  lieu  of  commutation 

for  rations  and  forage 36 

Act  approved  April  22,  1863,  establishing I     85 

Seel.     Certain  officers  to  constitute I     85 

Sec.  2.     Specifying  duties  of,  and  of  superintendent  of.   I     85 

Sec,  Z.     Rank  and  pay  of  officers  of I     85 

Regulations  of  Secretary  of  War  concerning. ....  .II,  III,  IV     85 


INDEX.  XXXIX 

Superintendent  of  bureau  authorized  to  pay  actual  travel- 
ling expenses  of  oflBcers  of  same  under  orders,  in  lieu  of 
commutation  of  rations  and  forage II  102 

Workmen  in  ij.xposed  districts  not  to  be  called  for  local  de- 
fence, except  in  extreme  urgency,  and  then  ho'w  and  by 
whom  called 127 

In  districts  lately  overrun,  workmen  to  be  returned  ;  officers 

to   extend  reasonable  facilities  for  resuming  operations. .        127 

Chief  of  bureau  directed  to  impress  copper,  coal,  and  other 
minerals  for  use  of  government I  133 

OFFICERS. 

Between  ages  of  eighteen   and   forty,  who   are  discharged, 
a         or  who  resign,  liable  to  conscription  unless  actually  dis- 
abled   lY      1 

Prohibited  from  interfering  with  running  of  railroad  trains.   I       2 

On  duty  enrolling  conscripts  may  draw  fuel  and  stationery. II     12 

Stationed  at  arsenals  to  report  upon  arrival  to  commanding 
gcn;rnl  of  department,  and  will  obtain  leaves  of  absence 
from  him jjl     13 

Stationed  at  arsenals  subject  only  to  orders  from  War  de- 
partment    IIj     j3 

In    charge    of  .arsenals  to  forward    list   and  description  of 

employees,  with  statement  of  pay Ill     13 

Arrests  of  disbursing,  to  be  stayed  until  facts  are  reported 

to  War  department II     15 

Absent  without  authority  thirty  days  from  publication  of 
thte  order,  to  be  dropped I     15 

Not  to  be  paid  without  exhibiting  authority  for  absence. . .   I     15 

Having  authority  to  recruit  new  organizations,  to  report  to 
commandants  of  conscripts  of  respective  states  names  of 
persons  enlisting  recruits Ill     jg 

Dropped  from  rolls,  or  cashiered  when  with  commands,  to 
be  enrolled  by  brigade  commanders;  when  not  present, 
names  to  be  furnished  to  enrolling  officers II     24 

Not  to  be  appointed  by  commanding  otficers Ill     28 

Elected  or  appointed  to  certain  civil  offices,  may  resign  on 
proper  certificate  of  fact  to  aceomp.any  letter  of  resigna- 
tion          43 

In  hospitals  may  be  paid  without  certificate  of  last  pay- 
ment           57 

•  On  ordnance  duty,  temporarily  absent  under  special  orders. 


Xl  INDEX. 

allowed  personal  expenses  in  lieu  of  allowances  of  fuel, 
quarters,  and  forage II     C7 

Sales  of  subsistence  to,  by  whom  made.     {Sec.  4) I     70 

Hospital  accommodations  allowed  to  sick  and  wounded ....         71 

In  official  reports  of  battles,  etc.,  to  confine  their  statements 

to  facts  and  events  connected  therewith 76 

To  observe  strictly  requirements  of  law  in  impressments  of 

property I     92 

Authorized  to  make  impressments  may  fipply  to  any  judge, 
justice  of  the  peace,  etc.,  for  warrant  to  search  for  any 
articles  supposed  to  bo  concealed II     92 

Not  to  employ  soldiers  on  government  work  unless  regular- 
ly detailed •■ 94 

So  employing  held  responsible  before  a  court-martial 94* 

To  certify  on  pay  account  whether  or  not  they  have  been 
"absent  without  leave"  during  time  for  which  pay  is 
claimed I  108 

Of  ordnance  duties,  apppointed  under  acts  of  April  21  and 
September  16,  1862,  to  be  distributed  into  grades,  as  au- 
thorized by  latter  act,  as  follows,  etc I  110 

Appointments  of  to  these  grades,  how  made I  110 

Receiving  volunteers  from  those  liable  to  conscription,  not 
to  grant  them  furloughs  to  exceed  ten  days  before  enter- 
ing active  service I  113 

Entitled  to  pay  from  date  of  acceptance  of  appointment  and 

from  date  of  promotion I  121 

Disbursing  entitled   to  pay  from  date  of  approval  of  bonds 

by  AVar  department I  121 

Will  not  be  assigned  or  receive  pay  until  reception  of  ap- 
pointments    I  121 

Disbursing   will   be   notified  of  reception   and   approval    of 

bonds  by  chief  of  bureau  to  which    they  belong I  121 

Commanding  to  recommend  for  appointment  as  disbursing 
officers  only  such  persons  as  furnish  reasonable  assurances 
of  ability  to  execute  bonds V     121 

Charged  with  duty  of  arresting  deserters,  to  report  to  com- 
mandant of  conscripts  of  state  to  which  sent,  and  to  co- 
operate with  enrolling  officers II  122 

Payments  to  absent  from  commands^  and  who  have  not  re- 
ceived letters  of  appointment,  how  made I  126 

Attention  of  called  to  paragraph  VII,  General  Orders,  No.  69, 

current  series I  130 


INDLX.  Xli 

ft 

On  rocruiting  service,  not  to  grant  permits  to  conscripts  or 
dfsertors  to  visit  or  remain  at  their  homes  for  any  pur- 
pose    I  135 

Held  to  strict  account  for  violation  of  this  order IV  13  ^ 

Not  to  be  relieved,  and  ordered  to  report  for  further  assign- 
ment to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  ollice,  except, 
etc I  141 

Charged  with  inspection  of  field  transportation,  duties  of.  .IV  142 

To  bo  assigned  by  Quartermaster-General  for  above  pur- 
pose  Ill  142 

Stationed  at  arsenals  to  bo  employed  on  duties  appropriate 

to  their  commissions,  etc Page  236 

Manner  of  creating,  can  not  bo  changed  by  stntc  huei  in- 
tended to  operate  upon  organizations  previously  mustered 
into  service  Pago  231 

ORDERS. 

Exhibited  in  evidence  beforo  judicial  tribunals,  how  authen- 
ticated         147 

ORDNANCE  DEPARTMENT. 

Will  furnish  light  arms  to  engineer  troops Ill  104 

Regulations  of  concerning  charges  for  8  and  10  inch  colum- 

biads Page  2.36 

ORDNANCE  CORPS. 

Officers  of,  to  pay  for  arms  belonging  to  men  at  price  fixed 

by  mustering  officer I       9 

Candidates  for  appointment  in,  who  have  passed  examina- 
tions, may  be  placed  on  duty  as  acting  ordnance  officers  . .   I     12 

Number  not  to  exceed  one-half  number  passed;  how  select- 
ed; regulating  pay ;  commissions,  when  issued I     12 

Chiefs  of,  for  army  corps  or  departments,  held  responsible 
for  prompt  returns  of  artillery,  ammunition,  etc.,  required 
by  paragraph  1,348,  Army  Regulations 1     20 

Organization  of I     33 

Officers  assigned  to  duty  in,  under  General  Orders,  Nos. 
24  and  4G,  of  1862,  to  be  continued  in  position;  may  bo 
relieved  by  regularly-appointed  officers  in,  at  discretion 
of  comm.anding  general • II     33 

Officers  of,  temporarily  absent  from  positions  in  field  under 
orders,  allowed  personal  expenses  in  lieu  of  allowances 
for  fuel,  quarters,  and  forage I     o7 

Officers  of,  ou  duty  in  field  not  part  of  personal  statt" I     84 

Chiefs  of,  for  armies  or  departments,  assigned  by  War  de- 
17 


xlii  INJJKX. 

partment,  and  not  to  be  rclicYed  except  on  orders  through 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office II     84 

Other  ofiBcers  of,  to  serve  with  commands  until  relieved  by 

orders  from  head-quarters  of  army  in  which  serving  . .  .Ill     84 

Copies  of  orders  relieving  officers   of,  to  be  forwarded  to 

Chief  of  Ordnance  bureau •  •  'IH     84 

Officers  of,  in  Provisional  army,  appointed  under  acts  April 
21  and  September  16,  1862,  to  bo  distributed  into  grades, 
as  authorized  by  latter  act I  HO 

Appointments  to  these  grades,  how  made I  110 

Ollicers  of  in  field,  to  be  assigned  to  command  according 
to  rank;  no  claims  to  promotion  in  consequence  of  such 
assignment   recognized 11  HO 

Chief  ordnance  officers  of  armies,  army  corps,  etc.,  may   be 

allowed  assistants;  fixes  rank  and  number Ill  110 

Chief  ordnance  oflicers  of  armies,  etc.,  how  designated. ..  .IV  110 

OfTicors  of,  to  receipt  for  arms  collected  by  officers  of  Quar- 
termaster, Commissary,  and  Conscript  departments,  and  to 
pay  reasonable  expense  incurred  for  transportation II  119 

Brigade  and  district  officers  of,  to  give  assistance  to  com- 
manding oflicers  of  regiments,  etc.,  in  preparation  of  re- 
turns required  by  paragraph  1,348,  Army  Regulations. . .  .IV  148 

Chief  officer  of,  of  army,  department,  etc.,  to  report  to  chief 
of  names  of  oflicers  who  fail  to  make  returns  herein  re- 
quired  V  148 

Officers  of,  to  supply  ordnance  stores  on  requisition  of  o£S- 
ccrs  commanding  camps  instruction Page  234 

Officers  of,  in  charge  of  posts,  when  relieved,  to  turn  over 
funds  to  successors,  unless,  etc Page  2.35 

Olficers  of,  to  note  upon  invoices  and  receipts  of  guns  the 
foundry,  number,  weight,  and  maker Page  2.38 

Form  for  monthly  report  of  officers  of Page  241 

Instruction  to  officers  of  in  field.  No.  1 Page  215 

"  "  "  No.  2 Page  217 

"  "  ''•  No.  3 Pago  219 

Chief  of  bureau  of,  to  give  instructions  to  arsenals  to  regu- 
late issues  according  to  circular  of  March  31,  1863  ....Pago  225 

ORDNANCE  STORES. 

Reported  unserviceable  to  be  inspected  by  brigade  inspect- 
or; in  his  absence,  by  olficer  designated  by  inspector- 
general  ;  report  to  be  made  in  accordance  with  paragraphs 
925  and  926,  Army  Regulations I     21 


iNDi:x.  xliii 

Requisitions  for,  to  supply, deficiencies  ;  copy  of  report  of 

inspector  sliall  be  appended II     21 

Reports  of,  in  hands  of  regiments,  to  be  made  by  ordnance 

sergeants  to  commanding  officers  thereof Ill     59 

Other  than  prescribed  in  "  Ordnance  Manual  "  of  1863  not  to 

be  purchased  or  fabricated I     154 

Authority  given  by  paragraph  1,232,  Army  Regulations  (par- 
agraph 9,  Or<lnance  Regulations),  to  provide,  in  case  of  ur- 
gent necessity,  exercised  under  above  restrictions I  154 

Accounts  paid  for  purchase,  fabrication,  etc.,  of,  contrary  to 

foregoing  order,  not  admitted  in  settlement  of  accounts.  .II  154 

Reported  unserviceable  by  inspector-general,  how  disposed 
of Pago  235 

Contracts  not  to  bo  made  at  places  where  ordnance  oflicers 

are  stationed,  by  other  ordnanco'oflicers Page  233 

To  bo  supplied  on  requisition  of  ollicers  commanding  camps 

instruction Page  234 

Manufacture  of  Boremann  fuses  to  be  discontinued ;  fuse, 

plugs,  and  paper  fuses  substituted Page  235 

Instructions  to  be  observed  in  making  requisitions  for.. Page  235 

Valises  and  valise  saddles  for  artillery  harness  will  nothei-e- 

aftor  be  fabricated Page  236 

Requisitions  for  to  be  made  on  arsenals  and  depots  nearest 

to  troops  requiring  them Page  237 

Rcquistions  for,  how  forwarded Page  237 

Purchases  or  contracts  for,  amounting  to  $10,000  or  upwards, 

to  be  submitted  for  approval  of  bureau Pago  238 

Form  of  inspection,  report  of  deficiencies  in,  for  light  ar- 
tillery   Page  241 

Pendulum  hausses  to  be  graduated  to  indicate  distances. Page  23S 

Relative  to  returns  of Page  237 

Issues  of,  how  made Page  240 

ORGANIZATIONS. 

Authoritj'  to  recruit  into,  not  in  service  on  16th  April,  1862, 

to  be  held  as  terminated  by  March  1 0,  1863 I     IS 

If  completed  to  legal  standard  by  10th  of  March,  1863,  and 
reported  to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  ac- 
cepted    I     18 

If  not  completed,  material  of,  within  conscript  age  (includ- 
ing ofTicers),  subject  to  enrolment  and  conscription I     18 

Formed  under  authority  later  than  December  10,  1862,  or  to 
be  recruited  in  districts  in  possession  of  enemy,  or  where 


Xliv  INKKX. 

conscript  law  is  suspended  by  President,  or  by  presence  of 
enemy,  excepted  from  operations  of  this  order II     18 

Names  of  persons  enlisting  recruits  for  now,  to  be  reported 

to  commandants  of  conscripts  of  respective  states Ill     18 

Persons  who  have  joined  new,  at  expiration  of  first  term  of 
service,  may  be  continued  in  present  companies,  unless 
facts  show  intention  to  desert  former  command.  Also, 
paroled  prisoners  whose  term  of  service  had  expired,  and 
who  enlisted  under  General  Orders,  No.  4-t,  series  1862  ...  .1     19 

Not  to  be  disbanded  prior  to  expiration  of  service  without 

authority  from  War  department I     28 

Brigadier-generals  and  colonels  will  not  be  permanently  de- 

tsiched  from,  without  iiuthority  from  War  department  ...  .1     28 

Composed  of  persons  under  eighteen  and  over  forty,  will  be 

received  for  local  defence  ;lnd  special  service I     86 

For  local  defence,  arms  furnished  by  Confederate  States.  .VII     86 

Formed  since  April  IG,  1862,  will   not  receive  as  volunteers 

persons  liable  to  conscription,  except,  etc I  125 

New,  must  not  bo  formed  out  of  companies  or  parts  of  com- 
panies now  in  service II  125 

New,  can  only  be  formed  of  persons  over  age  of  forty-five 

years Page  231 

OVERSEERS. 

Entitled  to  exemption,  may  be  exempted  from  military  ser- 
vice for  one  year  if,  etc ■  • . .  Ill  116 

Sent  by  masters  of  impressed  slaves,  subject  to  control   of 

oliicer  in  charge,  and  maybe  dismissed  for  misconduct. .  .VI  138 

PARDON. 

Granted  by  the  President  to  unauthorized  absentees,   who 

shall  return  to  their  posts  within  twenty  days I  109 

Granted  to  men  accused,  convicted,  or  undergoing  sentence 
for  absence  without  leave  or  desertion,  except  those  twice 
convicted  of  desertion II  109 

PARTISAN  RANGERS. 

Ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  and  cavalry  equipments  cap- 
tured by,  to  be  assessed  under  orders  of  commanding 
general,  and  paid  for  by  ordnance  olliccrs II     20 

Arms  and  munitions  of  war  captured  by,  how  disposed  of; 
to  be  paid  their  full  value  in  manner  prescribed  by  Secre- 
tary of  War I    47 

Arms  and  munitions  captured  by,  how  appraised  and  by 

whom  paid II    47 


INliJiX.  Xlv 

To  be  combined  into  battalions  and  regiments  under  direc- 
tion dopartmcut  commanders 82 

Serving  within  enemy's  lines  excepted  for  present 82 

PASSPORTS. 

Certifying  to  citizenship  of  Confederate  States,  issued  by 
Secretary  of  State  for  use  in  foreign  countries,  do  not  en- 
title holder  to  pass  Confederate  lines  or  sail  from  Confed- 
erate ports,  or  to  exemption  from  military  serri^'e 153 

PAYMENTS. 

Made   to  men    wlio    furnish    own   arms    at  rate  of  $1    per 

month [       9 

Made  for  equipments  brought  into  service  by  men;  rate,  how 

fixed II       9 

Rate  of,  to  acting  ordnance  officers I     Y2 

To  enrolling  officers  not  commissioned,  made  upon  accounts 
approved  by  commandant  of  conscripts  for  state  or  com- 
mandant camp  of  instruction II     12 

Not  to  be  made  to  officers  absent,  unless  authority  for  such 
absence  is  exhibited  ;  in  oases  of  doubt,  may  be  suspended, 
referring  case  to  War  department I     15 

Of  commutation  of  transportation  received  by  soldiers  in 
lieu  of  furlough  authori'/ed  by  acts  approved  December 
11,  1861,  and  April  16,  1862,  to  be  noted  on  muster  and 
payrolls IV,  V,  and  VI     20 

Made  to  partisan  rangers  for  captured  arms  by   Ordnance 

department II     20 

Not  to  be  made  to  persons  appointed  as  ollicers  by  military 

commanders Ill     28 

Prohibited  to  olKcers  absent  from  appropriate  commands, 
except  on  detached  duty,  and  sick  and  wounded  officers 
absent  by  competent  authority IV     28 

Of  commutation    of    transportation    due  deceased   soldiers    . 
maj'  be  made  to  pei'sonal  representative IV     31 

May  be  made  to  officers  in  hospitals  without  certificate  of 

last  payment • 67 

Monthly,  to  officers  and  men  of  Provisional  engineer  corps. .   I     66 

Rate  of,  to  men  detailed  to  perform  duties  now  performed  by 

commissary  sergeants I     70 

Rate  of,  to    detailed  men  under  act  May  1,  18C3 I     75 

To  detailed  men  serving  at  posts  and  stations  without  troops, 

or  in  counties,  towns,  etc.     {Sec.  2) II     75 


xlvi  INDEX. 

To  detailed  men  serving  in  field;  rato  of,  how  established. 

{Sec.  3) II     75 

To  detailed  men  under  act  May  1,  1863j  how  and  by  whom 

paid.     {Sed) II     75 

To  shoemakers,  rate  fixed.     ((S'ec.  5) II     75 

Under  act  May  1,  1863,  to  continue  from  January  1  to 
December  31,  1863.     (^cc.  6) II     75 

To  men  detailed  "without  pay  or  allowances"  will  not  be 

made.     {Sec.  6) II     75. 

Regulations  for,  under  act  May  1,  1863,  may  be  made  by 
chiefs  of  bureau  for  men  in  respective  employments, 
(^ec.  7) II     76 

To  infantry  soldiers  detailed  as  couriers  ;  rate  of  for  use  and 

risk  of  horse '. 77 

■     Of  commissioners  for  impressments  of  property.     ((S'ec.  6).  •  .1     37 

To  detailed  enlisted  men  of  commands  which  have  been  dis- 
banded; how  made  ;  descriptive  lists;  how  and  by  whom 
prepared Ill     80 

Rate  of,  to  officers  of   "Nitre  and  Mining  bureau."  {Sec.  3).  I     85 

Of  forty  cents  per  day  to  members  of  cavalry  companies 

for  local  defence  who  furnish  own  horses II     86 

To  operators  on  telegraph  lines  for  military  purposes,  not  to 
exceed  rate  allowed  by  Postmaster-General  to  the  opera- 
tors under  his  control 88 

May  be  made  to  officers  of  Nitre  bureau  for  actual  travelling 

expenses  in  lieu  of  commutation  for  rations  and  forage  .  .II  102 

Rate  of,  to   medical  officers  employed  under  act  October  11, 

1862,  to  examine  conscripts IV  107 

To  Quartermaster-General  same  as  to  brigadier-general....   I  108 

Not  to  be  made  to  officers  or  soldiers  for  time  during  which 
"  absent  without  leave,"  except  in  cases  of  sick  or  wounded 
in  hospitals I  108 

Rate  of,  to  military  storekeepers 108 

Act  authorizing,  to  persons  not  legally  mustered,  for  services 

actually  performed 108 

Made  to  officers  from  date  of  acceptance  of  appointment  and 

date  of  promotion I  121 

Made  to  disbursing  officers  from  date  of  approval  of  bonds 

by  War  department I  121 

Will  not  bo  made  to  officers  until  reception  of  appoint- 
ments    I  121 

To  private  physicians  employed  under  General  Orders,  No. 


INDLX.  xlvii 

82,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gcnoral's  office,  of  1862, 
increased  to  $0  per  day II  12i 

How  and  by  whom  made,  to  soldiers  detailed  as  commissary 

sergeants  under  act  May  1,  1863 IV  124 

How  made,  to  olUcers  absent  from  commands,  who  have  not 
received  commissions  or  letters  of  appointment I  120 

Upon  alTidnvits  to  sick  or  wounded  in  hospitals,  limited  to 

four  months'  pay Ill  K-tO 

To  oflicers  of  department  of  tranportation  for  actual  travel- 
ling expenses,  made  by  anj*  post  quartermaster V  l.ir) 

In  certain  cases  may  be  made,  of  money  value  of  clothing 
due  soldier  at  end  of  year 1:^6 

And  allowances  of  detailed  men  to  ceaso  during  detail  (ex- 
cept for  government  work.) I  149 

Of  full  wages  to  be  made  by  persons  to  whom  detailed  men 

arc  ordered  to  report I  liU 

Made  at  arsenals  31st  of  March,  1863,  regarded  as  fixed,  and 
will  not  be  changed  without  reference  to  Chief  of 
Ordnance Page  236 

Of  claims   for  pay  and  allowances  duo  deceased  soldiers; 

regulations  for,  adopted  by  Second  Auditor Page  229 

PRISONERS. 

Notice  of  prisoners  of  war  duly  exchanged I       5 

Notice  of  prisoners  of  war  duly  exchanged I     53 

Paroled,  whose  term  of  service  has  expired,  and  who  have 
joined  new  organizations  under  General  Orders,  No.  44,  of 

1862,  may  be  retained I     19 

Notice  No.  fi  of  duly  exchanged 123 

Notice  of  duly  exchanged 143 

Hospitals  for  of  war,  on  same  footing  as  other  Confederate 
States  hospitals I  159 

PROMOTION. 

In  LKGiONS  takes  place  by  seniority  in  its  several  arms  as  a 

whole Page  231 

In  cases  where  next  oflBcer  in  order  of  succession  waives  his 
privilege Pago  231 

PROPERTY  OF  ENEMY. 

Horses  and  mules  left  on  premises  of  farmers;  the  latter 
to  pursue  requirements  of  respective  states  concerning 
estrays I     61 

Horses  and  mules  left  on  premises  of  farmers  may  be  ro- 


1  -  INDEX. 

In  certain  cases,  may  be  granted  short  leaves  of  absence  to 

make  their  bonds II  121 

Vacancies  in,  in  brigades,  regiments,  etc.,  how  filled ;  ap- 
pointee held  strictly  to  requirements  of  preceding  para- 
graph I '. HI  121 

Appointed  subsequent  to  January  12,  18G3,  and  who  have  not 

filed  bonds,  allowed  furlough  not  to  exceed  sixty  days... IV  121 

In  charge  of  depots  to  receive  from  collector  of  taxes  in  kind 
and  receipt  for  produce  belonging  to  Quartermaster's  de- 
partment, and  will  .also  provide  storehouses  for  same  .  ...II  132 

Chief  of  armies,  and  oflicers  of  department  at  posts,  to  make 
estimates  on  chief  inspector  of  district  for  required  field 
transportation V  142 

At  post,  to  afford  accommodation  to  persons  in  charge  of 
stock  travelling  under  orders  of  officers  of  Col.  Cole's  de- 
partment   I  162 

To  furnish  forage  and  shelter  for  animals,  and  subsistence 
for  men,  upon  proper  requisition I  162 

QUARTERMASTER'S  DEPARTMENT. 

Ofiicers  of  at  supply  depots,  will  respect  requisitions  for 
grain  sacks,  made  by  quartermasters  receiving  taxes  in 
kind Ill  103 

Will  provide  engineer  troops  with  transportation  as  herein 
prescribed IV  104 

Officers  of,  not  to  employ  as  clerks  persons  liable  to  military 
service I  105 

Officers  of,  infield  to  report  to  commanding  general  num- 
ber and  names  of  clerks,  whether  citizens  or  soldiers  ;  if 
former,  whether  or  not  exempt;  if  latter,  whether  or  not 
exempt II  105 

Ofiicers  of,  at  post  to  make  similar  reports  through  chief  of 
bureau  Ill  105 

Oflicers  of,  to  deduct  pay  for  time  officer  or  soldier  is  "ab- 
sent without  leave  " 1(>S 

Act  to  prevent  fraud   in,  etc.  (May  1,  1863).. lOS 

Officers  of,  purchasing  supplies,  and  who  have  transportation 
at  command,  to  assist  quartermasters  receiving  taxes  iu 
kind  in  transporting  supplies  collected  to  issuing  depots 
of  army I  HI 

Officers  of,  purchasing  supplies  to  permit  their  storehouses  to 
be  used  for  storage  of  articles  of  produce  tax I  HI 

Permanent  posts  and  depots  established  by,  placed  under 


INDEX.  ll 

special  control  of  Quartermastor-Qencral,  though  subject 
to  inspection  by  commanding  officer  of  department  in 
which  located I  114 

No  change  to  be  made  in  assignment  of  officers  of,  at  perma- 
nent posts,  etc.,  except  through  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General's  office II  114 

To  receive   and   receipt  for  money  paid   for  exemption   of 

overseers  under  act  approved  May  1,  1863 Ill  116 

RAILROADS. 

Control  or  management  of,  not  to  be  interfered  with  by  mili- 
tary officers I       2 

For  transportation  ou,  quartermaster  shall  make  requisition 

on  superintendent  or  proper  officer  of II       2 

Adopting  General  R.  E.  Lee's  order  concerning I    28 

RANK. 

Of  Quartermaster-General  to  bo  that  of  brigadier-general 
P.  A.   C.  S I  108 

RANK  OF  OFFICERS. 

Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  47,  of  1S62,  applies  only 
to  olliocrs  whose  commands  had  reorganized  for  the  war 
under  acts  Nos.  306  and  397,  where  officers  had  been  re- 
elected to  same  grade  held  prior  to  reorganization I     24 

Of  "Nitre  and  Mining  bureau."     {Sec.  Z.) I     86 

Junior  second  lieutenant  can  not  waive  right  to  be  senior 

second  lieutenant Pago  231 

How  determined;  opinion  of  Attorney-General Pago  232 

RATIONS. 

To  persons  attached  to  hospitals  same  as  to  soldiers  in  field; 
not  commuted,  if  can  be  furnished  in  kind;  when  com- 
muted, at  60  cents  per  ration II     69 

Commutation  of,  fur  sick  and  wounded  in  all  hospitals,  at 
rate  of  $1 Pago  231 

RECRUITING  SERVICE. 

Officers  on,  not  to  grant  permits  to  conscripts  or  deserters  to 

visit  or  remain  at  their  homes  for  any   purpose I  136 

Officers  on,  held  to  strict  account  for  violations  of  this   or-    . 
der IV   135 

REPORTS. 

Monthly  of  ordnance  stores,  etc.,  to  be    rendered  by  chief 


Hi  INDEX. 

ordnance  ofllcers  of  departments   and  army  corps Page  237 

RETURNS. 

Monthly,  of  conscripts  to  be  forwarded  by  commandants 

camps  of  instruction  to  bureau  at  Richmond Ill       1 

Monthly,  of  conscripts  to  be  forwarded  by  enrolling  officers 
to  commandants  camps  of  instruction Ill       1 

By  commandants  of  conscripts  shall  report  separately  con- 
scripts gathered  under  system  instituted  by  circular  of 
Januarys,  1863 II     16 

Of  names  of  parsons  enlisting  recruits  for  now  organizations 

to  be  made  to  commandants  of  conscripts Ill     18 

Of  artillery,  ammunition,  and  ordnance  stores  to  be  for- 
warded to  Chief  of  Bureau  of  Ordnance  at  Richmond 
within  twenty  days  after  receipt  of  this  order I     20 

Provision,  for  persons  attached  to  hospitals  to  be  made  by 

sitrgeon  in  charge II     59 

Provision,  for  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals  to  be  made  ac- 
cording to  form  annexed II     69 

Of  ordnance  stores  in  possession  of  regiments  and  battalions 
other  than  artillery,  to  be  made  by  commanding  officers 
thereof Ill     59 

Quarterly,  of  arms,  accoutrements,  and  equipments  in  hands 
of  troops,  required  by  paragraph  1348,  Army  Regulations, 
to  be  promptly  rendered I  148 

As  above,  when  made  and  how  forwarded II  148 

Officers  failing  to  render  as  above,  subject  to  trial  for  "  dis- 
obedience of  orders"  or  "  neglect  of  duty  " Ill  148 

Brigade  and  district  ordnance  officers  to  give  assistance  to 
officers  commanding  regiments,  etc.,  in  preparation  of,  as 
above IV  148 

Officers  failing   to  render  as  above,  to    be  reported  to  chief 

of  ordnance  by   chief  ordnance  ollicer V  148 

Monthly  of  ordnance  stores,  etc.,  to  be  made  by  chief  ord- 
nance officer  of  departments  and  army  corps Page  237 

RETALIATION. 

Joint  resolution  on  subject  of.     {Sac  Acts  of  Congress.). .. .   I  108 
Joint   resolutions    on  subject   of   (May   1,  18(53).     See  Acts 

of  Congress 108 

No.    Par.  REVOCATIONS. 
7  III     Allowed  40  cents  per  day  for  use  and  risk   of  horse  by  Gen- 
eral Orders,  No.  77. 


INDEX.  liii 

22  Conscripts  examined  prior  to  the  order,  {o  be  re-examined. 

(See  General  Orders,  No-  39,  paragraph  I.)' 

28  IV  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  57,  so  as  to  allow  payment 
of  officers  in  hospitals  without  certificate  of  last  payment  j 
quartermasters  making  said  payment  will  still  furnish  cer- 
tificate. 

30  II     Amended  by  this  addition  :     "  The  bureau  or  department  for 

the  service  of  which  the  details  were  made."  (See  General 
Orders,  No.  32,  paragraph  III.) 

31  IV     To  b6  paid  by  Second  Auditor. 

31  V  Quartermaster's  department,  certified  by  commanding  o/Ticbr 
of  regiment  to  which  claimant  belonged  at  date  of  promo- 
tion.    (See  General  Orders,  No   33,  paragraph  V.) 

36  Revoked  by  General  Orders,  No.  102,  and  travelling  expenses 

to  be  paid  out  of  funds  appropriated  for  expenses  of  said 
bureau. 

37  I      ^cc.  6.  Amended  by  act  of  April  27, 1863.     (Sec  General  Or- 

ders, No.  53.) 

37     II     Sec.  2.  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  39,  paragraph  I. 

49  I  Money  and  other  effects  disposed  of,  as  directed  in  General 
Orders,  No.  67,  paragraph  III;  also,  modified  by.  General 
Orders,  No.  93,  which  orders  that  the  appraisement  be  made 
after  clothing  has  been  washed  and  repaired,  and  will  ap- 
proximate to  the  government  prices  at  which  issued. 

51  Paragraphs  III,  IV  and  V  are  rescinded,  and  matters  therein 

contained  are  regulated  by  General  Orders,  No.  59. 

51  I  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  141,  paragraph  V,  requiring 
th.at  all  certificates  be  given  by  authorized  boards  of  ex- 
aminers, and  not  by  single  medical  officer. 

67  Extended  by  General  Orders,  No.  157,  to  include  officers  of 

the  Commissary  department,  and  such  agents  of  that  de- 
partment appointed  by  Secretary  of  War. 

67  I  Extended  by  General  Orders,  No.  133,  paragraph  II,  to  officers 
in  Conscription  bureau — payments  to  be  made  out  of  funds 
of  that  bureau ;  also,  extended  by  General  Orders,  No.  135, 
paragraph  V,  to  officers  in  M.ojor  Cole's  department. 

69  IV  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  96,  paragraph  I,  which  or- 
ders that  soldiers,  not  discharged  because  fit  for  service  in 
staff  departments,  will  be  recommended  for  such  detail. 

69  X  Amended  to  prohibit  extension,  also  of  leaves  of  absence  and 
furloughs. 

86  I  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  98,  paragraph  II,  to  raise 
ago  to  45,  and  to  order  that  all  who  are  of  conscript  age, 
18* 


liv  INDEX. 

and  neither  exempted  by  law  nor  already  in  service,  bo 
conscripted. 
87  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  98,  paragraph  III,  ordering 

principal  to  bo  conscribed,  when  services  of  substitute  are 
lost  from  any  cause  other  than  casualties  of  war. 
116       I     Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  126,  making  it  duty  of  en- 
rolling oflicer  to  assign  conscripts  to  service,  at  the  discre- 
tion of  commandant  of  conscripts  in  the  state. 
122       I     Altered  and  enlarged  by  General  Orders,  No.  125,  paragraph 
VII,  requiring   statement  as  to  whether  the  substitute  is 
now  serving  ;  and  if  not,  why  ? 
141  Modified  by  General  Orders,  No.  157,  paragraph  II,  allowing 

soldier,  when  unable  to  travel,  to  send  certificate  of  his  at- 
tending physician,  said  certificate  to  be  submitted  to  board, 
who  will  act  on  it. 
REVOKING. 

Agencies  for  purchase  of  wool,  except,  etc II       6 

Second  clause,  paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  72,  of 
1862,  authorizing  senior  surgeon,  in  absence  of  regularly 

appointed  officers,  to  act  as  commandant  of  post I     1-4 

Fourth   clause,  paragraph   IV,  General  Orders,  No.  72,  of 

1862,  concerning  discharges I     14 

All  outstanding  authorities  from  War  department  to  recruit 

persons  of  conscript  age,  except,  etc I     18 

Paragraphs  117,  118,  and  119,  Army  Regulations,  authoriz- 
ing officers  to  employ  enlisted  men  as  servants Ill     20 

Paragraph  V,  Special  Orders,  No.  79,  and  paragraph  II, 
Special  Orders,  No.  80,  of  1862,  concerning  Surgeon  E. 

W.Johns II     23 

Paragraph  1,253,  Army  Regulations,  during  the  war,  con- 
cerning the  employment  of  slaves  in  Ordnance  depart- 
ment  II    32 

Previous  orders  relating  to  discharges  and  furloughs  on  sur- 
geon's certificate.     {HeQ  Fitrlovgh  and  Dlschai-fje.)  ....VII     51 
Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  24,  of  1862,  requiring 

ordnance  sergeants  to  make  returns  to  Ordnance  bureau. Ill     59 
Paragraphs  III,  IV,  and  V,  General  Orders,  No.  51,  current 
series,  concerning  discharges  and  furloughs  on  surgeon's 

certificate IX     69 

Appeals  made  by  the  President  to  the  people  of  the  Confed- 
erate States  for  quartermaster's  supplies I     92 

General  Orders,  No.  36,  current  series,  allowing  actual 
travelling  expenses  to  oflicers  of  Nitre  bureau I  102 


INDEX.  Iv 

ROLLS. 

Monthly,  of  conscripts  to  bo  forwarded  by  commandants 

camps  of  instruction  to  bureau  at  Richmond Ill     1 

Monthly,  of  conscripts  to  be  forwarded  by  enrolling  officers 

to  commandants  camps  of  instruction Ill       1 

Muster,   for  organizations   for  local  defence  shall  specify, 

etc Ill     86 

ROLL  OF  HONOR. 

Names  of  those  now  inscribed  on Ill  131 

SERVANTS. 

Enlisted  men  not  to  be  employed  as,  by  olficcrs Ill     20 

SIGNAL  CORPS. 

Duties  of  oflicers  of,  confined  to  those  bearing  commissions 
as  such,  under  acts  approved  April  19,  and  September  27, 
1862 I     10 

Officers  of,  will  be  assigned  by  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gen- 
eral to  any  general  officers  entitled  thereto. .  i ..' II     10 

Officers  of,  to  make   reports,  returns,  etc.,  through  senior 

signal  officer  on  duty  at  seat  of  government .Ill     10 

SLAVES. 

Act  to  protect  rights  of  owners  of,  taken  by  or  employed  in 

army '. I     25 

Depots  for  recaptured,  established II     25 

Quarters  for  recaptured,  provided  by  commandants  camps  of 

instruction Ill     25 

Captured,  disposition  to  be  made  of IV     25 

Cases  of,  serving  without  written  authority  of  masters  to 
be  reported  to  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office  by 
adjutants I     59 

Impressment  of,  for  labor  on  fortifications,  etc.,  to  be  decided 
upon  b.v  commanding  general  or  engineer  otnecr  in 
charge  of  work I  133 

Impressment  of,  not  to  be  resorted  to  except  in  case  of  ne- 
cessity     I  133 

Commanding  general  may  authorize  impressment  of,  be- 
tween ages  17  and  60;  before  Deceuiber  1.  1S63,  must  ab- 
stain from  impressing  on  plantations  producing  exclusive- 
ly provisions,  except,  etc II  1.38 

AVho  shall  not  be  impressed Ill  138 

Fi.\ing  period  of  impressment  of IV   133 

Notices  to  be  given  of  number  and  character  of,  required, 

time  and  place  of  delivery,  etc VI  133 


hi  INDEX. 

Masters  of,  may  furnish  subsistence  and  overseers  for YI  138 

If  subsistence  is  furnished  for,  at  Trhat  rate  commuted.  .VIII  133 

Fixes  compensation  for  services  of;  allows  rations,  medical 

attendance,  etc.,  etc VII  138 

In  case  of  death  of,  from  injuries,  etc.,  received  in  service, 

compensation  how  and  by  whom  fixed,  etc.,  etc VII  138 

Sent  voluntarily  and  accepted  without  speci.al  contract,  to 
be  on  same  footing  as  if  delivered  on  requisition,  etc., 
etc fill  138 

In  case  of  disagreement  .as  to  value  of,  at  time  of  impress- 
ment; value  of,  how  ascertained IX  l.'iS 

In  what  cases  government  not  liable  for  death  of VII  138 

Opinion  of  Engineer  bureau  as  to  proper  mode  of  treating 
claims  for,    lost  while    in    employ    of    the    Confederate 

States   Page  232 

STAFF. 

Applications /or,  appointments  to  fill  vacancies  to  be  sent 
through  proper  channel,  and  to  state  how  such  vacancies 
occurred I       8 

Act  to  amend  an  act  for  organization  of  general.     (May  20, 

1863) I  108 

STATIONERY. 

May  be  issued  to  oflSccrs  of  army  on  duty  enrolling  con- 
scripts   II     12 

STRAGGLERS. 

To  be  ai  rested  by  enrolling  officers II       1 

SUBSTITUTES. 

Not  legally  exempt  held  in  service  for  period  of  enlist- 
ment f  principal  also  liable IV     1 

Form  for  enlistment  of,  and  for  discharge  of  soldier  pre- 
senting          87 

Discharged  on  certificate  of  disability  to  be  enrolled  when 

disability  ceases 89 

Services  of,  being  lost  other  than  by  casualties  of  war, 
renders  principal  liable ....Ill     98 

List  of,  to  be  forwarded  to  Colonel  Jno.  S.  Preston,  Chief  of 

Conscript  lUircau,  by  regimental,  battalion,  etc I  122 

Modification  of  above VII  125 

In  medical  examination  of,  requirements  of  paragraph  1,192 
General  Regulations  (paragraph  48  Medical  Regulations) 
to  be  adhered  to VII  141 

Failing  to  meet  above  requirements,  rejected VII  141 


INDEX.  Ivii 

Deaerting,  principal  not  liable  if  substitution   was  eficctcd 

prior  to  July  20,  1863 Pago  233 

Will  not  be  received  unless  substitution  first  have  approval 

of  commanding  general  of  army  or  department Page  233 

Have  no  right  to  complain  of  violation  of  any  regulation  or 

order  bj'  which  he  was  brought  into  service Piigo  233 

TITHE  TAX. 

Accounts  relating  to,  must  bo  kept  by  quartermasters,  sepa- 
rate from  other  accounts II  117 

Producers  must  deliver  in  marketable  condition,  etc Ill  117 

May  be  received  bj'  quartermasters  and  commissaries  serv- 
ing with  troops  when  properly  authorized V  117 

When  producers  offer  to  pay  to  authorized  officers,  it  is  obliya- 
tory  upon  latter  to  receive  the  produce,  and  pay  excess  of 
transportation  over  eight  miles  at  rates  prescribed  by 
state  commissioners YI  117 

Receipt  for  given  to  producers  regarded  as  evidence  that 
so  much  of  his  tax  has  been  paid YI  117 

TRANSFERS. 

Of  bonded    officers   not   recognized  until   ratified   by  War 

department II       S 

Soldiers  able  to  furniah  horse  may  receive,  to  cavalry II     67 

Members  of  cavalry  refusing  to  keep  themselves  supplied 

with  horses  ma}'  receive,  to  infantry  or  artillery 11     67 

May  be  granted  to  persons  between   forty   and  forty-five 

years  of  age  in  organizations  for  16cal  defence XII     86 

Act  to  provide  for,  from  army  to  navy.     Approved  May  1, 

1863 I  108 

Act  to  provide,  from  army  to  navy  (Maj-  1,  1863) lOS 

Persons  in  army  may   receive   to  navy,  on  application  of 

Secretary  of  Navy 108 

Will  not  be  granted  to  officers  and  soldiers  from  general  ser- 
vice to  local  companies YI  135 

TRANSPORTATION. 

For  troops  by  rail;  requisition,  how  nindo II       2 

For  messengers  with  freight YII       2 

Commutation  of,  may  be  paid  by  regimental  quartermaster 
to  enlisted  men  entitled  to  furlough  under  acts  approved 

December  11  and  April  16,  1862 IV     20 

Commutation  of,  as  above,  at  rate  of  two  and  a  half  cents 

per  mile V     20 


Iviii  INDEX. 

One  two-horse  wagon  to  each  regiment  in  field,  for  hospital 
supplies II     45 

Horses  employed  in,  with  armies  in  field,  to  bo  turned  in  to 
cliief  quartermaster  if  suitable  for  artillery ;  places  to  be 
supplied  with  mules I     60 

Horses  employed  in,  at  posts  or  depots,  to  bo  collected  under 

orders  of  inspector  field  transportation II     60 

To  discharged  soldiers  granted  to  place  of  enlistment  or 

residence IV     69 

Commutation  of,  duo  enlisted  men  who  have  been  promoted, 

will  be  paid  by  Quartermaster's  department VI     31 

Act  to  provide  for  persons   mustered  into  service    for  war. 

(February  7,  1S68; I  108 

Allowed  onlj'  once  during  term  of  enlistment I  108 

Oflicers  of  department  of,  may  draw  actual  travelling  expenses 
in  lieu  of  commutation  for  quarters,  fuel  and  forage;  may 
be  paid  by  any  post  quartermaster V  135 

Inspector-General  of  Field  charged  with  duty  of  adopting  a 
more  perfect  system  for  supply  and  preservation  of  artil- 
lery, horse,  and  other  field  tnmsportation I  142 

Purchases,  impressments,  and  issues  of  field  and  recruiting, 
fabricating  of,  etc.,  to  bo  done  under  orders  Major  A.  11. 
Cole II  142 

Other  officers  prohibited  from  purchasing  or  disposing  of 
this  description  of  propertj',  except,  etc II  142 

Field  required  for  armies,  how  secured V  142 

Cavalry  escort  to  be  furnished  for  protection  of  parties  col- 
lecting animals  for  field  near  enemy's  lines V  142 

TROOPS. 

Called  out  by  Governor  of  Virginia;  by  whom  and  when  to 

be  mustered  into  service II       4 

Issue  of  whiskey  to,  prohibited,  except,  etc I     45 

TllOOPS  IN  TRANSPORTATION. 

Transportation  for;  on  railroads,  how  secured II       2 

When  moved  by  railroad,  officer  in  charge  to  fix  time   of 

departure  with  railroad  officers IV       2 

VACANCIES. 

In  grade  of  junior  second  licutenaut,  how  filled Page  233 

WHISKEY. 

Issue  of,  to  troops  prohibited,  except  in  eases  of  exposure. .   I     45 
WOOL. 

Prohibiting  appointment  of  agents  for  purchase  of,  except, 
etc II      6 


INDEX.  lix 

HKAD-QUAnxERS,  Depautment  S.  C,  Qa.,  and  Fla., 

Charleston,  S.  C,  January  1,  1864. 
The  foregoing  Index   of  General  Orders  from  the  War  department 
was  prepared  under  my  supervision,  by  Lieutenant  Edmund  Keakny, 
A.  D.  C. 

THOMAS  JORDAN, 
Brigadier-General,  and  Chief  of  Staff. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspf.ctor-Gexeral's  Office, 

No.  1.  )  Richmond,  January  3. 1863. 

I.. The  followiug  Orders  are  published   for  the  information  of  the 
army : 


All  white  male  citizens  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages 
f  18  anil  40,  who  are  not  exempt  by  the  Act  of  October  II,  1862,  ar.3 
liable  to  conscription;  and  all  such  as  have  h^n  already  enrolled  and 
mustered  will  bo  held  as  though  in  service  of  the  Confederate  States 
until  otherwise  ordered.  E.veraption  will  not  take  place  until  after  en- 
rolment whe.n  enrolling  olfioer.s  will  grant  certificates  of  exemption 
in  all  cases  clearly  within  the  meaning  of  the  act.  All  doubtful  cases 
for  e.Notnption  will  be  referred  for  decision  to  commandants  of  camps 
of  instruction,  and,  if  necessary,  by  them  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Conscription  in  Richmond.  Such  cases  will  not  be  required  to  report  in 
person  to  the  camp  of  instruction  until  final  action  is  had  on  the  same. 

II.  .Enrolling  oflicors  are  required  to  be  vigilant  in  the  discbarge  of 
their  duties  within  the  districts  confided  to  them,  not  only  in  respect  to 
the  enrolment  of  conscripts,  bst  also  in  the  apprehension  and  arrest  of 
stragglers  and  deserters  from  the  array.  Complaints  having  been  made 
of  harsh  treatment  to  conscripts  by  enrolling  officers  in  certain  locali- 
ties, which  treatment  is  calculated  to  prejudice  the  cause  of  the  Con- 
Tedcrate  States  by  ciitouraging  opposition  to  the  acts  of  conscription, 
it  will, be  the  duty  of  commandants  of  camps  of  instruction  to  report 
to  the  Secretary  of  War  for  discharge  from  conscript  service  any  otllcer 
who  shall  offend  in  this  particular.  It  is  required  of  all  enrolling  offi- 
cers to  encourage  and  promote  a  good  understanding  with  the  people 
of  the  district  in  which  they  may  be  serving;  and  it  is  impressed  on 
them  that  firmness  of  purpose,  tempered  with  kindness  and  forbear- 
ance, will  best  promote  the  objects  to  be  attained. 

• 

III.  .Enrolling  officers  will  furnish  to  commandants  of  camps  of  in- 
struction at  the  end  of  each  month  a  complete  roll  of  the  conscripts 
made  by  them  during  the  mouth.  Such  rolls  will  also  embrace  the 
names  of  persons  who  have  been  enrolled  and  exempted  within  that 
period.  One  copy  of  these  rolls  will  be  immediately  forwarded  by  the 
commandants  of  camps  of  instruction  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Conscription  iij  Richmond,  for  file  and  future  reference. 


IV.. All  commissioned  officers  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and 
forty  who  have  become  disconnected  with  the  army  by  the  operation 
of  General  OrderSj  Nos.  48  and  96,  of  1862,  or  by  reason  of  non-re- 
election, resignation,  or  dismissal,  unless  actually  disabled  (of  which 
they  must  furnish  evidence);  are  subject  to  eonscripCion  ;  and  while 
substitutes  between  the  above  ages,  and  who  are  not  embraced  in  the 
provisions  of  the  exemption  law,  will  be  held  in  service  to  the  end  of 
the  terms  for  which  they  have  engaged,  the  principals  within  the  same 
ages  for  whom  the  substitute  may  have  engaged  to  serve  will  be  liable 
to  conscription. 

*"  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  In»pector-G eneral. 


GENERA6  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  2.  J     '  Richmond,  January  3, 1863. 

I.  .The  following  Orders  are  published  for  the  information  and  guid- 
ance of  all  concerned: 

Recognizing  the  necessity  of  oflBcers  of  railroads  having  full  control 
of  their  business,  in  order  to  ensure  safety  and  despatch  in  transporta- 
tion, military  oflBcers  are  prohibited  from  interfering  with  the  engines, 
cars,  running  of  trains,  or  with  the  control  and  management,  in  any 
way,  of  railro.ads.  , 

II.. When  transportation  of  troops  or^freight  by  railroad  is  neces- 
sary, a  quartermaster  or  other  authorized  officer  shall  make -requisition  , 
for  the  same  upon  the  superintendent  or  proper  officer  of  the  railroad, 
furnishing  the  necessary  evidence  of  transijortation,  and  deliverifig  the 
troops  or  freight  to  be  transported. 

III.. In  the  event  that  more  freight  is  to  be  transported  over  any 
road  than  the  road  .has  the  ability  to  carry  promptlj',  the  officer  fur-- 
nishing  evidence  of  transportation  will  indicate  to  the  railroad  officer 
what  shall  take  precedence.  In  the  absence  of  any  special  order  as  to 
what  freight  shall  go  ffrst,  the  railroad  officer  shall  be  governed  by  any 
general  order  the  Quartermaster-General  ra&y  issue  in  regard  thereto. 

IV.  .Where  troops  or  freight  is  to  bo  removed  out  of  the  usual  routine 
of  a  railroad,  the  officer  having  charge  of  such  movement  will  fix  with 
the  superintendent  or  other  officer  of  the  road  on  which  the  movement 
is  to  be  made  the  day  and  hour  oi  departure:  and  when  so  fixed,  the 
roops  or  freight  must  be  ready  at  the  appointed  time.     , 


:? 

^'.  .In  the  event  of  any  niilitar}-  necessity  for  an  unusual  niovemcut 
at  any  particular  point,  the  commanding  officer  at  such  point  will  com- 
municate fully  the  character  and  extent  of  service  to  the  principal  officer 
of  the  road  or  roads  from  which  it  is  required,  and  ask  the  personal 
supervision  of  the  proper  railroad  officers  to  the  duty. 

VI.  .Quartermasters  ai»d  commissaries   will   exercise   discretion   in' 
shipping  freight  not  wanted  for  immediate  use,  and  that  may  be  stored 
at  safe  and  convenient  points,  taking  care  not  to  block  up  roads  and 
thereby  impede  transportation. 

V'll. .  Wlicn  it  i.«  necessary  to  send  a  special  messenger  with  freight, 
such  messenger  must  travel  with  the  freight  placed  in  his  charge,  and 
his  transportation  shall  be  so  specified  on  its  face,  in  order  to  prevent 
bim  from  travelling  in  any  other  w.ay. 

VIII.  .Enrolling  officers  will  [Hermit  conscrii)ts,  enrolled  while  in  the 
cnijiloy^^ent  of  railroads,  to  remain  at  their  duties  until  Col.  William 
M.  Vadley,  A«  A.  G.,  decide  »s  to  who  of  them  it  is  necessary  should 
be  detailed  for  service  on  the  road.        , 

IX.  .Any  violation  of  these  orders,  or  remissness  on  the  part  of  rail- 
road officers  to  perform  promptlj'  all  government  transportation,  will 
be  reported  to  'Col.  AA'illiara  M.  Wadley,  A.  A.  G.,  who  will  indicate 
from  time  to  time  where  his  head-quarters  will  be. 

By  order. 

S.  COOI^ER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. I  Apjutaxt  a.nd  Inspector-Generai,"s  OrncE, 

No.  3.  j  Richmond.  January  9,  1S63. 

I.. The  attention  of  officers  is  called  to  the  3Jth  article  of  Army 
Regulations,  and  especially  to  those  par.agraphs  of  the  article  which 
relate  to  the  channel  of  military  correspondence.  It  is  no  exaggera- 
tion to  state  that  nearly  one-third  of  the  correspondence  received  at 
the  War  department  and  at  this  office,  from  officers  of  the  army  and 
others  in  the  military  service,  comes  directly  from  the  writers,  without 
passing  through  the  prcscribcjd  channel.  Therefore,  all  indirect  com- 
munication with  the  department  is  prohibited;  and  where  it  is  at- 
tempted, either  in  person  or  by  letter,  the  application  will  be  referfed  io 
the  proper  military  commander  before  action  is  taken  on  it,  and  in- 
structions will  at  the  same  time  be  given  to  briug  the  offender  to  trial 


for  violation  of  the  regulations  and  orders  respecting  military  corre- 
spondence. These  regulations  were  made  after  long  experience.  They 
have  been  found  indispensable,  and  must  be  observed. 

II.  .Not  only  arc  all  papers  and  applications  to  be  forwarded  through 
the  regular  channels  of  communication,  but  the  officers  through  whom 
they  come,  and  who  are  generally  supposeck  to  be  informed  on  the 
merits  of  the  case  presented,  are  required  to  express  their  opinions 
thereon,  either  in  approval  or  disapproval.  These  opinions  are  fre- 
quently important  to  the  department,  and  the  rule  which  prescribes 
them  must  not  bo  overlooked.  '* 

By  order. 

g.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


■GENERAL  OKDERS."j  Adjutant  and  Inspectok-General's  Office, 

No.  4.  j  KiciiMOND,  January  12.  1863. 

I.  .A  camp  of  instruction  for  conscripts  will  be  forthwith  established 
at  Petersburg,  Virginia.  All  persons  liable  to  conscription  within  the 
following  counties  will  repair  to  tliis  camp  for  enrolment;  and  all  en- 
rolling officers  within  said  counties  will  hasten  forward  conscripts  to 
the  same  point.  The  following  are  the  counties  referred  to,  to  wit: 
Greenesville,  Uinwiddie,  Brunswick,  Lunenburg,  Mecklenburg,  Halifax, 
Charlotte,  Pittsylvania,  Henry,  Patrick,  Franklin,  Nottoway,  Prince 
Edward,  and  Campbell. 

II.  ."Major-General  French  will  appoint  an  officer  of  his  command  to 
receive  and  muster  into  service  the  troops  called  out  by  the  Governor 
of  Virginia,  in  Special  Orders  of  the  Adjutant-General  of  the  state,  of 
January  9,  186-3,  as  they  arrive  at  Petersburg,  and  cause  them  to  be 
furnished  with  subsistence  and  other  supplies  needed  for  their  effi- 
ciency. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inipertor-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  5.  )  Richmond,  January  13, 1863. 

I.  .The  following  Order  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned : 


lOxCIIAXGE  NOTICK.  NO.  4. 

Tlie  follow  iiii;  officers  and  iiii'u  liavr  bei'ii  duly  cxiliniijved.  and  avo  ln-ieliy  so 
('eclared : 

1.  All  oflicert!  and  men  captured  in  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Alabanaa,  Mississippi, 
(ieorgia,  Flmida,  and  Sourth  Carolina,  up  to  Deeeniber  10,  1802. 

2.  All  oflicors  and  men  captured  in  Missouri.  Kan.sas,  New  Mexico,  .\rizona, 
Arkansas,  and  Louisiana,  nj)  to  January  1,  l^C").  , 

3.  The  two  foiegoing  sections  apply  not  only  Jo  officers  and  men  of  the  Confed- 
erate service,  but  also  to  jiersons  captured  in  arms  or  hostile  arr^v  against  the 
United  States,  whatever  may  have  been  the  character  of  the  military  organization 
U)  which  they  were  attacli  ed.  and  whatever  may  liave  been  the  terms  of  the  pa- 
roles given  by  them.  If  any  are  in  Federal  jirisons.  they  are  to  be  immediately 
released,  and  delivered  to  the  Confederate  authorities. 

4.  All  persons  who  have  been  captured  on  the  sea  or  sea-coast  of  the  Confederate 
or  United  States  up  to  December  10,  1862.  If  any  such  are  in  Federal  prisons, 
they  are  to  be  immediately  relejiaed,  and  delivered  to  the  Confederate  authorities. 

.5.  All  ConfcHerafe  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at  City  Point  up  to 
January  6.  >VC>.'?. 

0.  .Ml  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at  Vicksburgup  to 
December  'J.'!,  1S02,  and  inclndinp  .said  date. 

7.  All  paroled  Confederate  officers  and  men  receii>teil  for  at  Vicksburg  up  to 
December  "23,  1802.  and  including  said  dale. 

8.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  at  Fredericksburg, 
Virginia,  in  December.  1802. 

9.  .^11  Confederate  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  at  Goldsboro",  \orth 
Carolina,  in  December,  1802.  ,^ 

10.  Other  miscellaneous  and  minor  exchanges,  of  which  the  :ii)propriate  officers 
will  be  duly  informed. 

ROIJERT  OUl.D. 

Agent  of  E-rchanQf. 
liichmond.  January  10, 1863. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspcitor-GeueraL 


OENEUAL  ORDKUS,"!  Awi:t.\\t  .\m)  1xspector-Gexf.r.\i,'s  Office, 

No  0.  )  RiCHMOxii.  J(7)i««9-y  16,  1S63. 

I.. The  attention  of  officers  charged  with  the  eu.stodj'  of  public  prop- 
erty, is  called  to  paragraphs  923,  924,  and  925,  Army  llegulations, 
which  provide  the  mode  of  accounting  for  that  which  is  lost  or  de- 
stroyed, and  disposing  of  such  as  become  unsuitable  for  the  service. 
No  departure  will  bo  allowed  from  the  re({uirements  therein  contained; 
and  all  officers  having  public  property  in  their  possession  will  be  held 
to  a  strlcf  accountability. 

II.. The    appointment  of    agents    to  purchase   wool  by  anj-  olUcer, 


except  tbe  Quarteni^aster- General,  and  such  oflicers  as  may  act  under 
his  authority  and  sanction,  is  hereby  prohibited  :  and  all  agencies  for 
that  purpose,  heretofore  authorized  by  otlier  officers,  is  revoked.  . 

By  order.  • 

S.  COOPER, 
'  Adjntant  and  Iitupector-Geiieral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  a\d  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  v.  )  Richmond,  January  19.  1863. 

I.  .The  exemption  from  military  service  of  route-agents  of  the  Post- 
office  department  having  been  claimed  by  the  Postmaster-General  as 
executive  officers  of  the  Confederate  States  linder  the  Act  of.October  11, 
1862>  is  recognized.  Such  persons,  if  within  conscript  ages,  will  be 
enrolled,  and  furnished  with  certificates  exempting  them  during  the 
continuance  of  their  appointments.  In  all  cases  where  the  appoint- 
ment fails,  or  tha  term  thereof  expires,  the  party  is  re<(uired  to  report 
himself  to  the  officer  by  whom  he  was  enrolled;  or,  if  he  can  not  be 
found;  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  at  Richmond. 

II.  .Hereaftft'  all  field  artillery  belonging  to  any  separate  army  will 
be  parked  together  iinder  tbe  direction  of  the  general,  or  other  chief 
officer  of  artillery  having  control  of  the  same,  to  be  distributed,  when 
required,  according  to  tbe  judgment  of  the  commanding  general  of 
such  arm}'. 

III.  .Cavalry  companies  will,  as  far  as  practicable,  be  kept  with  their 
respective  regiments.  The  practice  of  detailing  such  companies,  or 
parts  of  them,  as  couriers  and  guides  for  the  head-quarters  of  general 
officers  will  be  discontinued.  Their  places  can  be  supplied  by  such 
infantr,y  soldiers  as  may  be  able  to  furnish  themselves  with  horses, 
and  can  be  detailed  for  this  duty  by  the  general  from  their  respective 
commands — the  number  not  to  exceed  six  for  the  commander  of  an 
army  corps,  four  for  the  cojumander  of  division,  and  two  for  com- 
mander of  brigade. 

IV.. Medical  officers,  in  furnishing  certificates  of  disability  to  dis- 
abled and  invalid  officers,  will  confine  themselves  to  the  established 
Forms  of  the  service  provided  for  such  certificates,  and  will  hereafter 
abstain  from  recommending  them  for  li'jht  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjnfoiit  find  TnKjjector- General. 


(rEXKIlAL  ORDERS,)  Apjutaxt  and  iNSPCCTon-OEXERAL's  Office, 

No.  S.  i  Richmond.  January  20, 1863. 

I.  .Applications  for  staff  appointments  to  fill  vacancies,  whe.ther 
occurring  in  divisions,  brigades,  regiments,  or  battalions,  must  in  all 
cases,  besides  being  sent  through  the  proper  channels,  be  accompanied 
by  a  statement  showing  how  such  vacancies  have  occurred  ;  and,  until 
the  previous  incumbent  shall  have  been  properly  disposed  of,  and  his 
absence  accounted  for  to  the  satisfaction  of  this  department,  no  other 
appointment  will  be  made. 

ir.  .No  transfers  of  bonded  officers  from  the  positions  to  which  they 
have  been  originally  assigned  shall  bo  recognized  until  ratified  by  this 

department. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  WAR  DEPARTMENT. 

y  .\djutaxt  anp  Inspector-Gf.xekal's  Office, 

No.  9.  )  Richmond.  January  22, 1863. 


I..Pufsuant  to  section  8  of  an  "act  to  provide  for  the"  public  de- 
fence," tupproved  April  16,  1862,  men  who  are  mustered  into  service, 
bringing  with  tbcm  their  own  arms,  are  entitled  to  one  d.illar  per  month 
for  the  use  of  the  same  from  the  date  of  mustering  into  service.  Should 
they  prefer  to  receive  the  full  value  of  the  %rms,  the  same  will  be  fixed 
by  the  mustering  officer  at  an3''muster,  according  to  the  value  of  arms 
fi.xed  by  General  Orders,  No.  78.  In  cither  case,  the  fact  will  be  noted 
on  the  muster  roll  by  the  mustering  officer,  with  a  statement  of  the  value 
of  the  arm,  or  of  the  amount  due  per  month  as  compensation  for  the 
use  thereof.  The  sums  so  due  for  arms,  or  use  of  arms,  will  be  paid 
by  the  brigade,  division,  or  other  ordnance  oflicer,  and  such  payment 
noted  on  the ^uuster  roll. 

Payment  for  the  use  of  arms  will  not  be  made  oi'tener  than  once  in 
six  months. 

II.. In  like  manner,  cavalry  equipments  brought  into  service  will  be 
valued  by  the  mustering  olficer,  and  the  value  entered  upon  the  muster 
roll,  and  paid  for  at  the  followiiig  rates  :  ^ 

For  a  good  serviceable  saddle from  $15  to  $20 

For  a  good  saddle  blanket  ...'....._. from      3  to      4 

For  a  good  bridle from      3  to      5 

For  a  good  halter .' from      2  to      3 

And  minor  articles  at  the  discretion  of  the  mustering  olficer. 


H 

III.  .General  Onlers,  No.  10],  last  series  from  this  office,  are  amend- 
ed, so  as  to  allow  that  the  two  surgeons  to  be  eniploj-ed  to  examine 
conscripts  in  each  congressional  district  may  be  selected  from  the  dis- 
tricts in  which  they  are  to  act,  when  surgeons  can  not  be  obtained 
from  other  congressional  districts. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
A(!j(ttiiiit  and  hiHj^ector-GeneraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  j  Adjutant  and  rNsPECTOR-GENERAL's  Office, 

No.  10.  )  Richmond,  January  24,  1863. 

The  following  Orders  are  published  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned : 

I.. The  duties  of  signal  officers  are  confined  to  those  bearing  com- 
missions as  such,  appointed  under  the  acts  of  Congress  approved  April 
19,  1862,  and  September  27,  1862. 

II.. To  any  general  officer  requiring  a  signal  officer,  and  entitled 
thereto,  one  will  be  assigned  by  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 

III.. All  signal  officers  are  required  to  make  their  reports,  returns, 
etc.,  through  the  senior  signal  cffiter  on  duty  at  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment; and  paragraph  I^,  General  Orders,  No.  40,  must  be  more 
strictly  observed. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjittniil  (Old  Iiispecior-Geiieral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  11.  J  Richmond.  January  27, 1863. 

The  military  courts  appointed  and  organized  under  the  act  approved 
October  9.  1862,  will  be  governed  and  controlled  as  other  coutts  mar- 
fcial,  by  the  Articles  of  War  and  Regulations  of  the  Army,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  aforesaid  Act  of  October  9,  1862. 

Their  proceedings  will  therefore  bo  subject  to  review  by  the  com- 
manding general  of  the  army  corps  to  which  they  are  attached,  who, 
by  the  decision  of  the  President,  is  the  proper  reviewing  officer  of  all 
such  proceedings,_under  the  provisions  of  the  law  and  the  Articles  of 


i> 

War.  The  original  proceedings  of  these  -courts,  after  final  action  is 
had  on  them,  will  be  transmitted  to  the  office  of  the  Adjntant  and  In- 
spector-General, agreeably  to  the  90th  Article  of  War. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- Goiernl. 


OENERAI,  ORDKU.S.")  Apjutaxt  and  Inspf.ctor-Generals  OrncE, 

Xo.  12.  )  KiriiMoxi),  J(ini(oi.y  28,  1SC3. 

I.  .Candidates  for  appointments  of  artillery  oflficers  for  ordnance  - 
duly  who  have  passed  tlieir  examinations  at  the  head-quattors  of  any 
army,  armj-  corps,  or  department,  may  be  placed  on  ordnance  duty  as 
acting  ordnance  otfiecrs.  The  number  so  placed  on  duty.shall  not  ex- 
ceed one-half  of  the  Avholc  number  passed  there,  and  shall  be  taken 
from  the  head  of  the  list,  without  reference  to  the  grade  for  which  they 
are  recommended. 

Acting  ordnance  olFicers  so  placed  on  duty  shall  be  entitled  to  pay  as 
first  lieutenants,  if  recommended  for  that,  or  higher  grade,  and  as  sec- 
ond lieutenants,  if  not  recommended  for  higher  grade. 

Commissions  will  be  issued  as  soon  as  the  examinations  are  com- 
pleted in  all  the  armies,  and  will  be  for' grades  and  of  dates  to  corre- 
spond with  the  general  roll  of  merit  established  by  the  examiners. 

II.. The   Quartermasters'   department   will   issue   to   officers   of   the 
army,  on  duty  enrolling  coBscripts,  such  fuel  and  stationery,  within* 
the  limits  prescribed  by  existing  regulations  for'  allowances  to  public 
oflFiccs,  as  shall  be  certified  by  those  officers  to  be  indispensable  for  the 
proper  discharge  of  their  duties. 

The  legitimate  expenses  of  the  performance  of  such  duty  will  be 
paid,  in  the  ease  of  enrolling  officers  not  commissioned,  upon  accounts 
approved  by  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for  the  state,  or  commander 
of  camji  of  instruction. 

Bj-  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  a)id  IiiK2}rctnr-Gc)>eral. 


OKXERAL'ORDEUS,"!  ,        Adjutan't  and  Ixspfcti  r-General's  Office, 

No.  13.  J  KicnMOXD,  January  31,  18G3. 

I.. The  following  arsenals,  armories,  depots,  etc.,  are  immediately 
under  charge  of  the  War  department;  and  its  orders  will  be  given 
directly  through  the  Ordnance  bureau,  viz  r 


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Kicliinond  Arsenal ^ Rtchmoud,  Virginia. 

"  Armory .' '•  " 

Fa^-ettcville  Arsenal  and  Armory Fayeltovillc,  N.  C. 

Charleston  Arsenal Charleston,  S.  C. 

Au<;usta  Arsenal  and  Powder  Works .^.  .  .Augusta,  Ga. 

Macon  Arsenal Macon,  Qa. 

Armory "  " 

'•'       Laboratory '•      J' 

Columbus  Arsenal Columbus,  (jia. 

Atlanta  Arsenal Atlanta,  fta. 

Mount  Vernon  Arsenal Mount  Vernon,  Ala. 

Montgomery  Arsenal Montgomery,  Ala. 

Sclma  Arsenal Selma,  Ala. 

Jaekson  Arsenal Jackson,  Miss. 

Greensboro'  Depot Greensboro',  N.  C. 

Danville  Depot Danville,  Va. 

Lynitbburg  Depot Lynchburg,  V.a. 

little  Rock  Arsenal Little  Rock,  Ark. 

Texas  Arsenal San  Antonio,  Texas. 

II.. The  stores  fabricated  and  deposited  at  these  posts  are  to  be 
drawn  out  on  requisitions,  as  designated  in  section  V,  Ordnance  regu- 
lations. \ 

III.. Officers  stationed  at  the  arsenals  antj  depots  will,  on  their  first 
arrival,  report  in  person  or  by  letter  to  the  commanding-general  of  the 
department,  and  will  obtain  leave  o/ absence  fri^m  him;  but  while 
liable  to, requisitions  made  upou  the  arsenal  or  armory,  as  provided 
above,  are  subject  to  orders  only  from  the  War  department,  through 
the  Ordnance  bureau. 

IV.  .The  quartermasters'  depots  at  Augusta,  Atlanta,  and  Columbus, 
Georgia,  and  at  Montgoijiery  and  lluntsville,  Alabama,  having  been 
established  by  the  direction  of  the  War  department,  to  supply'  the 
necessities  of  the  army  at  large,  are  placed  under  the  special  control  of 
the  Qmirlcrmaster-Goneral,  though  subject  to  the  in.spoction  of  the 
commanding  officers  of  the  departments  in  which  they  are  located. 
Issues  from  these  depots  will  be  maile  by  order  of  the  Quartermaster- 
General,  upon  requisitions  of  chief  quartermasters,  approveil  by  com- 
manding generals. 

By  order.  • 

'  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector- (J  en  era  I. 


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GKXERALi  ORDEJtS,  1  '  Adjutant  axd  Inspector-Gexkuai/s  Office, 

No.  14;  j  .  ■  RlCHMOM).  F\:bruar;/  3,  1803. 

I.  .The  2d  clause,  paragraph  IV,  of  General  Orders,  No.  72,  of  1862, 
is  hereby  revoked. 

The  fourth  clause  of  same  paragraph  is  amended  as  follows  : 
On  a  certificate  of  disaiiility,  with  recommendation  for  furlough  or 
discharge,  signed  in  duo  form  by  examining  board,  and  approved 
by  the  senior  surgeon  of  the  post,  the  commander  of  the  post  may 
grant  the  soldier  a  furlough,  not  to  exceed  thirty  daj^s,  and  submit  the 
application  for  a  longer  period  to  the  general  to  whose  command  the 
soldier  may  belong  :  or  he  miiy  refer,  without  granting  the  furlough,  to 
the  discretion  of  said  couim%nding  general. » 

'  II.  .The  superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau  is  authorized 
and  directed  to  enforce  existing  contracts  of  the  government  in  iron, 
load,  and  other  munitions.  Where  "iron  and  other  articles  thus  con- 
tracted for,  and  needed  for  the  service,  are  ascertained  to  have  been 
sold  at  private  sale,  or  are  not  promptly  delivered  according  to  the 
terms  and  spirit  of  the  contract,  they  m.ay  be  taken  wherever  found; 
and,  upon  requisition,  assistance  shall  be  afforded  by  the  commandant 
of  the  nearest  post  or  camp  of  inlstruction  to  the  officer  or  agent 
of  the  Mining  bureau  specially  charged  with  the  enforcement  of  the 
contract. 

When  a  contract  shall  have  been  persistently  viohited,  after  ten  days 
notice,  all  detailed  or  conscripted  men  will  be  withdrawn,  and  assigned 
to  other  works. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Atljiiiaiil  and  fnsjyeclor-Geiicra/. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "|  Adjutant  \nd  lNsrECTOa-(iK\KUAL's  OrriCE, 

No.  1,').  )  Richmond,  February  6,  1863- 

I.. All  commissioned  officers  of  the  army  in  the  service  of  the  Con- 
federate States  who  are  absent  from  their  respective  commands  without 
sufiScient  autiiority,  and  from  whom  satisfactory  reports  have  not  been 
received,  will  be  considered  as  no  longer  in  service  thirty  days  after 
the  piM)lication  of  this  order,  when  their  names  will  be  ora'sed  from  the 
returns  of  regiments  and  coriis.  All  quartermasters  of  the  army, 
charged  with  the  payment  of  troops,  arc  hereby  prohibited  from  mak- 


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iiig  payments  to  officers  vvbo  du  nut  exhibit  sufficient  authority  for 
absence  from  their  proper  commands;  and  where  any  doubt  exists  in 
the  mind  of  the  paying  officer,  for  want  of  such  authority,  he  will 
suspend  payment,  and  report  the  case  to  this  office,  with  the  name  and 
residence  of  the  officer  so  absent,  and  the  regiment  and  corps  to  which 
ho  belongs. 

II.. Where  occasions  may  arise  in  "military  commands  for  charges 
against  a  disbursing  officer  of  the  army,  arrest  will  be  stayed  until  a 
report  of  the  facts  in  tlie  case  is  duly  made  to  the  'War  department 
llirough  the  office  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General;  and  the 
officer  will  continue  to  discharge  his  duties  until  the  department  shall 
take  proper  measures  for  his  relief  from  duty. 

III.. In    congressionaPdistricts  where    slirgeoiis   can  not  be  ';  em- 
jiloyed"    to    complete    the    examining  boards    for   conscripts   directed 
in    jirevious    orders,   the    commandants  of   conscripts  may  constitute 
such  boards,  temporarily,  by  meiKeal  officers  under  their  authority. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPEU, 
*  Adjutant  and  lii^pector-Getieral. 


GENKRAL  OKDEKS  "1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  10.  J  .  Richmond,  February  1,  18*53. 

I.. The  special  measures  instituted  in  the  circular  from  this  office 
(if  the  8th  January,  ultimo,  were  intended  to  aid,  and  in  nowise  to 
supersede  the  operation  and  rules  of  the  regularly  established  S3'stem 
of  conscription.  Reports  h.ave  been  received  that  officers  thus  sent 
from  the  army  have  been  practically  setting  aside  the  sj'stem,  decis- 
ions, and  exemptions  established  under  the  authority  of  the  command- 
ants of  conscripts  in  the  respective  states,  and  are  neglecting  to  make 
to  those  officers  .any  returns  of  the  conscripts  gathered  by  them. 

It  is  hereby  ordered  that  all  officers  acting  under  the  authority  of' 
the  circular  in  question  shall  refrain  from  inteiference  with  any  con- 
scripts already  in  the  custody"  of  the  officers  regularly  on  conscription 
iluty,  and  shall  assert  no  claim  over  them,  otherwise  than  by  estimates 
on  the  commandants  for  the  quota  to  which  their  regiments  shall  be 
entitled  under  the  principle  oi  }>ro  rata  distribution;  also,  that  they 
shall  respect  certificates  of  exemptions  issued  by  regular  enrolliug 
officers,  rei)orting  for  decision  of  the  commandants  any  case  in  which 
the  exemption  may  ajipear  to  tluin  to  have  been  improperly  granted; 


that,  in  no  case  shall  they  themselves  grant  certificates  of  exemption 
or  detail;  that  in  all  doubtful  cases  or  cases  of  appeal  from  their 
decision  they  shall  refer  to  the  regular  enrolling  oflRccrs  or  the  co«,- 
mandants;  and  that  they  shall  furnish  to  the^ocal  enrolling  officers,  or 
the  commandants  of  conscripts  for  the^state.  descriptive  lists  of  all 
Iicrsons  within  conscript  ages  recruited  or  gathfercd  by  them. 

II..Tiie  commandants  of  conscripts,  in  making  their  reports  to  the 
Bureau  of  Conscription,  will  return  separately  the  conscripts  gathered 
and  reported  to  them  under  the  system  instituted  by  the  circular  above 

referred  to. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ailjntnut  a)id  InKprctor-Gcncral. 


(;f,NKI!AL  OKDEHS.  |  Abjl'tant  axd  I.NSPECTOR-CiF.SER.vL's  Office, 

y      y  j  Richmond,  February  13,  1863. 

L.Thc  following  additional  appointments  under  the  Act  of  October 
fl,  1862,  providing  for  the  establishment  of  military  courts,  are  an- 
nounced for  the  information  of  all  concerned : 

Lreiitenant-Gruernl  J.  C.  Peinherton's  Corpn. 
George  B..  Wilkinson,  Presiding  Judge,  Mississippi. 
.John  J.  Good,  Texas. 
Henry  AV.  Allen,  Louisiana. 
John  P.  McMillan,  .Judge  Advocate,  Missouri. 

Lieiiictiant-Griicral  W.  J.  Hnrdec'n  Corpn. 
John  C.  Moore,  Presiding  Judge,  Alabama. 
Samuel  J.  Gholson,  Mississippi. 
Taylor  Beutty,  Loui      na. 
Bojiton  Randolph.  Judge  Advocate,  Texas. 

II.  .The  above-named  members  will  report  without  delay  to  the  com- 
manding officers  of  the  respective  army  corps  to  which  they  belong;  to 
whom  their  letters  of  appointment  will  be  forwarded,  except  whore 
they  may  be  called  for  at  this  office  at  an  early  day. 

III.  .In  all  cases  wji«re  the  .sentence  of  a  court  martial  directs  a  for- 
feiture of  pay.  the  just  dues  of  the  laundress  are  to  be  understood  as 
always  excepted   from  guch  forfeiture.     This  exception  will  embrace 


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sums  which  have  accrued,  as  well  as  those  which  became  due  during 
the  term  of  the  sentence.  • 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Ge.neral's  OrnCE, 

No.  18.  J  Richmond,  February  16, 1863. 

I.. With  the  exceptions  hereinafter  named,  all  outstanding  autliori- 
ties  issued  from  the  War  department  to  recruit  persons  of  conscript 
age  into  regiments,  battalions,  or  companies  not  in  service  on  the  16th 
day  of  April,  1862,  will  be  held  as  terminated  from  and  after  the  10th 
day  of  March  next.    ■ 

Any  new  organization  that  shall  meantime  have  been  completed  up 
to  the  legal  standard  of  a  regiment,  battalion,  or  company,  as  may  have 
been  specified  in  the  original  authority  issued,  will  be  reported  before 
the  10th  of  March  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office,  f»r 
muster  and  reception  int»  service. 

The  ofganization  itself  failing  of  completion,  the  material  within 
conscript  ages  (including  officers)  of  such  parts  as  shall  have  been 
enrolled  for  the  special  service  will  be  reported  to  the  local  command- 
ants of  conscripts,  respeq,tively,  for  enrolment' and  conscription.  These 
commandants  will,  however,  cause  to  be  allowed  to  the  persons  thus 
transferred,  previous  to  enrolment,  the  privilege  of  volunteering  in 
companies  that  were  in  service  on  the  IGth  of  Ajsril,  1802. 

II.. From  the  operation  of  this  order  are  excepted  new  companies 
or  corps  in  process  of  organization  under  authority  issuing  from  the 
War  department  of  a  date  later  than  the  10th  of  December,  1862,  and 
all  such  as  may  have  been  authorized  to  be  recruited  from  material 
found  within  districts  possessed  by  the  enemy,  or  in  which  the  con- 
script law  has  been  suspended  by  the  President,  or  in  which  the  regu- 
lar execution  of  the  conscript  law  is,  from  the  vicinity  of  the  enemy, 
unattainable. 

III.  .All  ofiiocrs  and  persons  acting  under  authority,  now  and  here- 
after, to  recruit  new  organizations,  will  report  to  the  commandants  of 
conscripts  in  their  respective  states  the  names  of  those  persons  who  are 
employed  by  them  in  enlisting  recruits.  In  the  absence  of  such  official 
evidence,  the  enrolling  officers  will  not  recognize  the  authority  claimed. 
By  order. 
'   .  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  iMpector-tieixeral. 


I.) 

GENERAL  ORDERS  "|  Adjutant  and  Inspbctor-Geneeal's  Okfice, 

No.  19.  I  Richmond.  February  17. 18C3. 

With  a  view  to  determine  the  military  state  of  certain  persons  in  the 
army,  who  have  left  their  regular  commands  and  joined  others,  under 
the  impression  that  they  had  a  right  so  to  do,  but  are  claimed  as  desert- 
ers under  existing  laws,  the  following  orders  are  published  : 

I.. Persons  who  joined  new  companies  at  the  expiration  of  their 
ftrst  term  of  service,  under  the  act  authorizing  re-cnlistmcnts  for  the 
war,  will  be  continueil  in  their  present  companies,  provided  the  facts 
do  not  show  an  intention  to  desert  their  former  commands  ;  also  all 
paroled  prisoners  whose  term  of  service  had  expired,  and  who  enlisted 
in  new  companies  under  the  provisions  of  (Jeneral  Orders,  No.  44, 
Adjutant  and  Inspcctor-Uenerars  office,  Richmond,  June  17,  1862, 
will  be  continued  in  thtiir  present  companies. 

II.. All  persons  who  have  really  deserted,  and  have  joined  other 
companies,  will  be  returned  to  their  original  commands;  and  the 
benefit  of  this  order  is  to  be  strictly  limited  to  cases  arising  from  a 
misconception  of  rights  and  duties  under  the  rc-enlistment  and  con- 
script laws.  * 

III.  .The  privilege  heretofore  exercised  by  troops  on  the  battle-field, 
of  exchanging  their  small  arms  and  field*  pieces  for  those  captured 
from  the  enemj',  is  hereafter,  forbidden,  and  tha  prohibition  will  be 
strictly  enforced  by  commanders.  Disasters  nlay  easily  result  from  a 
disregard  of  this  necessary  order.  All  such  exchanges  must  be  made 
by  proper  authority,  and  with  a  due  regard  to  the  efficiency  of  the 
troops.  Captured  arras  and  artillery  will  bo  turned  over  to  the  chief 
ordnance  officer,  and  bo  assigned,  whenever  practicable,  to  the  troops 
to  whom  the  general  .=h«ll,  on  testimony,  award  their  capture. 
By  order.  •    . 

•    S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  InspeHor-(J cneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  |  .       Adjutant  and  Ixspkctor-General's  Office. 

No.  20.  S  Richmond,  Fchrnary  19,  1863. 

I.."  General  or  other  officers  commanding  army  corps  or  departments 
will  cause  full  returns  of  artillery,  ammunition,  and  other  ordnance 
stores  at  the  various  forts  and  batteries  within  their  commands  to  be 
prepared  without  delay. 

"The  chief  of  ordnance  of  each  army  corps  or  department  will  be 


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held  responsible  that  ihesu  returns  are  forwarded  to  the  Chief  of  the 
Bureau  of  Ordnance  :it  Richmond  within  twenty  days  after  the  receipt 
of  this  order,  and  will  lhe^>after  see  that  the  returns  required  b}* 
paragraph  l?i48,  Army  Regulations,  are  regularly  forwarded. 

II.. "All  orduanoe  and  ordnance  stores,  including  cavalry  equip- 
ments captured  from  the  enemy  by  partisan  rangers,  shall  be  assessed 
by  competent  officers,  under  orders  of  the  commanding  general,  entered 
upon  the  rolls,  and  paid  for  by  any  ordnance  officer,  upon  receipt  for 
the  money  from  the  men  entitled  to  the  property,  and  a  property  certifi- 
cate signed  by  the  ofTicer  commanding  the  company,  squadron,  battal- 
ion, or  regiment  of  rangers,  as  the  case  may  bo."  The  rolls  must  state 
distinctly  the  company,  battalion,  or  regiment  to  which  the  arms  are. 
'assigned,  in  order  that  the  commanding  otlicer  of  the  same  may  bo 
charged  with  the  property  on  the  books  of  the  treasury. 

III.  .Paragraphs  117,  118,  and  119,  Army  Regulations  (being  con- 
trary to  law),  are  hereby  revoked  ;  and  no  enlisted  man  in  the  service 
of  the  Confederate  States  will, be  employed  as  a  servant  by  any  olllcer 
of  the  army. 

JA'..When  a  non-commissioned  officer,  mnsican,  or  private  eutitled 
to  a  furlough  under  the  acts  of  Congress,  approved  Decembe-r  11,  1861, 
and  April  16,  1802,  shall  elect  to  receive  the  commutation  value  in 
money  in  lieu  of  transportation  to  his  home  and  back,  the  quartermas- 
ter of  his  regiment  will  promptly  pay  his  account  therefor,  u')ion  his 
certificate,  approved   by  his    company    and    regimeutal    commanders, 

that  commutation  is  justly  due  him  iu  lieu  of  a  furlough. 

» 

v.. In  making  such  payments,  quartermasters  will  estimate  the 
amount  due  in  each  case  at  two  and  a  half  cents  per  mile  for  the  dis- 
tance the  Soldier  would,  if  upon  furlough,  be  conniellcd  to  travel  to  and 
from  his  home. 

VL.Compilny  conitfcanders  will  be  required  to  state  upon  their 
muster  and  pay  rolls  payments  made  under  these  orders  opposite  the 
name  of  the  soldier  so  paid. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  find  fimpector-lieiicrnf. 


GK.NKUAly  ORDERS."!  .\djutaxt  and  IxgPECTOR-GENERAL  s  Office, 

No.  21.  )  RicicMOXD,  Februartj  20  1863. 

I.. When   the  o.tigoacy  of  the   service  requires  it,  ordnance  stores 


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reported  unserviceable  by  the  officer  who  is  rospousible  for  them  shall 
be  iiispectcil  Jjy  the  Brigade  Inspector,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Inspector-General  of  the  army;  or  in  case  of  the  absence  of  the 
Brigade  Inspector,  then  by  any  other  officer  desigjiatcd  by  the  Inspect- 
or-General, except  the  officer  accountable  for  the  property  in  question. 
The  inspecting  officer  shall  make  a  report  in  accordance  with  para- 
graphs 925  and  926,  Army  Regulations  ;  and  whatever  stores  he  con- 
siders worn  out  or  unserviceable,  he  shall  order,  under  tlie  direction  of 
the  Inspector- General,  to  be  dropped. 

II.. When  re((uisitions  for  ordnance  stores  are  m-ade  to  supply  defi- 
ciencies, a  copy  of  the  report  of  the  inspector  shall  be  appended,  to 
show  the  necessity  of  the  issue. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Ingjicctor-General. 


GKNEHAL  ORDEItS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Generai/s  Office 

No.  22.  j  Richmond,  February  23,  1863. 

The  following  additional  instructions. are  published  for  the  guidance 
of  the  medical  officers  and  surgeons  composing  the  boards  of  examina- 
tion for  conscripts: 

I.. In  their  examination  of  conscripts,  they  must  exercise  a  sound 
and  firm  discretion,  and  not  yield  their  judgment  in  favor  of  every 
complaint  of  trivial  disability, -by  attaching  too  much  importance  to 
which  they  indirectly  favor  evasions  of  the  required  military  service. 

II. .  A^  a  general  rule,  it  may  be  received  that  where  a  conscript  is 
equal  to  all  the  active  duties  of  the  various  occupations  of  civil  life,  he 
is  able  to  discharge  the  duties  of  a  soldier. 

III.  .Temporary  exemption  is  s-o  liable  to  abuse,  and  to  be  resorted 
to  as  a  means  of  evasion,  that  the  examining  surgeon  must  fix  the 
period  for  which  it  is  granted  (which,  with  the  reasons  therefor,  will 
be  stated  in  the  monthly  report),  at  the  exi)i'ration  of  which  period 
the  conscript  must  present  himself  for  examination,  or  be  considered 
absent  without  leave. 

IV.  .The  following  are  some  of  the  grounds  not  deemed  sufficient  and 
satisfactory  for  exemption  : 

1.  General  debilili/. — The  grades  of  this  condition  .are  numerous,  and 
on  receiving  them  all  as'  grounds  for  exemption,  the  examining  surgeon 


can  uot  be  cousidered  us  disobargiug  his  duty  to  the  service.  In  arriv- 
ing at  a  correct  judgment  upon  this  point,  he  will  be  aided  by  the  con- 
sideration that  observation  has  by  no  means  established  that  a  so  called 
"high  standard  of  health  is  best  adapted  to  encounter  the  exposures  of 
military  life,  such  physical  condition  being  especially  liable  to  disease; 
while  health  of  a  lower  grade,  without  any  coexisting  positive  disease, 
is  frequently'  strengthened  and  improved  by  the  exposures  incident  to 
the  life  of  a  soldier. 

2.  In  case  of  sU<jhi  deformity,  natural,  or  the  result  of  accident  and 
irregular  union  of  fractures,  unless  material  impairment  of  power  and 
motion  results  from  such  deformity,  the  conscripts  must  be  held  liable 
for  military  service. 

3.  DeafnesH. — This  is  not  a  valid  reason  for  exemption,  unless  so  ex- 
cessive (which  must  be  stated  in  the  monthlj'  report)  as' to  incapacitate 
a  man  for  the  duties  of  a  sentinel.  The  fact  of  its  existence  must  also  lie 
established  by  the  affidavit  of  a  rcspectable'physician,  who  has  known 
the  conscript  to  be  the  subject  of  the  infirmity. 

4.  Impediment  of  speech. — Unless  of  a  very  aggravated  character,  is 
not  a  valid  reason  for  exemption. 

5.  Heart  disease  {organic). — Organic  disease  of  the  heart  being  com- 
paratively infrequent,  the  physical  and  rational  signs  should  be  scruti- 
nized with  great  care,  and  the  subject  of  examination  should  not  be 
ei.C'a^ed  unless  the  case  is  satisfactorily  established. 

0.  Fxinctional  dinturbance  of  heart's  action. — This  is  very  common — 
not  a  valid  ground  for  exemption,  and  will  generally  be  relieved  by 
change  to  the  life  of  the  camp. 

7.  Jiheumatism. — The  kind  should  be  designated,  whether  acute  or 
chronic,  articular  or  muscular.  It  is  a  complaint  liable  to  be  used  as  a 
means  of  evasion.  Where  it  is  simply  muscular,  without  swelling  or 
contraction  of  the  joints,  and  the  general  health  of  the  conscript  is 
otherwise  sound,  he  should  be  held  liable  to  military  duty. 

S.  Epilepsy. — This  disease  being  frequently  simulated,  so  as  to  im- 
pose upon  a  careless  observer,  nothing  less  than  the  observation  of  an 
actual  paroxysm,  or  the  affidavit  of  a  responsible  physician  acquainted 
with  the  conscript,  should  be  deemed  satisfactory  by  the  examining 
surgeon. 

9.  Varicocele. — Not  a  ground  for  exemption,  unless  excessive;  which 
must  bo  slated  in  the  monthly  report. 

IG.  Myope. — Not  a  ground  for  exemption.  Many  myopic  subjects 
distinguish  distant  objects  with  accuracy  sufficient  for  all  practical  pur- 
poses. 

H.  lI.:inorrhoid«. — As  many  invalids  in  civil  life,  subjects  of  this 
disorder,  are  engaged  in  active  occupations,  they  should  not,  unless 


excessive  (wLich  must  be  stated  in  the  monthly  reports),  he  coutidercd 
satisfactov}'  grounds  for  exemption.  , 

12.  Opucity  of  one  cornea,  or  the  loss  of  one  eye. — Not  valid  grounds 
for  exemption. 

13.  The  loss  of  one  or  two  finijero. — Not  sufficient  cause  for  exemption. 

14.  Single  reducible  hernia. — Not  a  valid  cause  for  exemption. 

By  order. 

S..  COOPER,  / 
,  Ailj'itlunt  (iiid  rnspcctor-(je}ieral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  J  Adjutant  and  Inspectof.-Gknkr.m.'s  Office, 

Xo.  23.  f  Richmond,  1-Tebriiary  25. 186:). 

l..The  senior  surgeons  of  commands  entitled  to  medical  directors 
will  be  detailed  as  medical  directors  for  such  commands.  Whenever, 
however,  the  interest  of  the  service  shall  require  a  departure  from  this 
rule,  medical  directors  for  commands  will  be  recommended  by  the  Sur- 
geon-General, and  announced  in  Orders  from  this  office. 

.  II.  .Paragraph  YI,  Special  Orders,  No.  79,  and  paragraph  II,  Special 
Orders,  No.  80,  of  last  scries  from  this  office,  directing  medical  pur- 
veyors to  obey  all  instructions  relative  to  the  trausfer  of  medical  sup- 
plies and  reports  of  supplies  on  hand,  emanating  from  Surgeon  E.  AV. 
Johns,  Medical  Purveyor,  are  hereby  revoked;  and  hereafter  all  reports 
will  be  made  direct  to  the  Surgeon-General,  and  all  instructions  to 
medical  purveyors  will  emanate  from  his  office. 

Surgeon  Johns  will  ^nd  to  the  Surgeon-General  s  office,  without  de- 
lay, all  records,  books,  and  papers  connected  with  the  duties  assigned 
him  under  the  above-named  Order,-;. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  /nsprctur-Gcneral. 


(H5NERAL  OI!Di;r,S."l  .411JUTA.NT  AND  I.\si';:cT()n-(!EN£RAi,s  (iffkn:, 

N"-  -f  j  ~        RlciiMOM),  March  5,  1803. 

I.. Paragraph  IV  of  General  Orders,  No.  47,  of  1862,  was  designed 
to  apply  solely  to  the  cases  of  officers  whose  command.s  had  reorgan- 
ized for  the  war,  agreeably  to  the  acts  of  Congress,  No.  306,  of  Docem- 
l)er  11,  1861,  and  No.  :5'J7,  of  February  15,  1862,  where  the  officers  of 


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suoh  rewganizcd  commands  had  been  re-elected  to  the  same  grade  of 
rank  they  hcltl  in  those  commands  prior  to  their  reorganization,  and 
lieforc  the  passage  of  the  Act  of  April  16,  1862,  commonly  known  as  the 
"Conscription  act." 

In  all  reorganizations  of  commands  under  this  last-named  act  (April 
16,  1S62),  the  officers  will  take  rank  from  the  date  of  the  act,  and  their 
relative  rank  with  ea'^h  other  in  the  same  grade  will  be  regulated  by 
the  date  of  their  former  commissions  in  the  service. 

II. .  Officers  of  the  army  who  are  dccpped  from  the  rolls,  cashiered  by 
courts  martial,_or  whose  reeignations  are  accepted,  and  who  may  thus 
become  liable.to  military  duty  under  the  conscription  acts,  will,  when 
present  with  their  commands,  be  at  once  enrolled  by  their  respective 
brigade  commanders.  When  not  so  present,  their  names  will  be  fur- 
nished by  their  commanding  officers  to  the  proper  enrolling  officer,  of 
the  district  to  which  they  belong,  or  in  which  they  reside:  2}>'ovided, 
that  any  officer  so  liable  to  enrolment  may  select  in  his  former  com- 
mand any  company  from  his  own  state  in  which  to  be  enrolled. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OKBERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gekehai.  s  Offick, 

No.  25.  j  racDMOND,  Ma,rch  6,  1863. 

I.. The  following  Act  of  Congress  and  Regulations  to  enforce  the 
same  are  published  fbr  the  information  of  all  persons  concerned: 

Chap.  LXII. — An  act  to  protect  the  rights  of  owners  of  slaves  taken  by  or 
employed  in  the  army. 

The  Congrens  nf  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  every  person 
connected  with  the  army  or  navy  of" the  CoufeJerato  States,  arresting  or  coming 
into  possession  of  any  shive  hy  capture  from  the  enemy,  or  otlicrwise  than  by  law- 
ful authority,  shall  imniediatelj'  report  the  same  to  the  comniauiling  uflRcor  of  the 
post,  or  brigade,  or  station  to  which  he  may  be  attached.  The  said  commanding 
ollicer  sliall,  with  aa  little  delay  as  practicable,  send  the  slaves  so  reported  to  the 
nearest  depot  described  in  the  next  .suction,  with  a  register  of  the  place  and  date 
of  their  arrest:  provided,  howRvnr,  that  the  said  slaves,  or  any  of  thcni,  may  at 
once  be^delivered  to  their  respective  owners,  if  claim  is  made  and  e.'slabli.'ihed  on 
satisfwetory  evidence. 

Sec  2.  Tlie  Secretary  of  War  shall  establish  depots  for  recaptured  slaves  at  con- 
venient places,  not  more  than  five  in  number,  in  each  statu;  and  all  slaves  cap- 
tured in  such  state  shall  be  kept  in  such  depots.  Public  notice  shall  be  given  of 
the  places  so  selected. 

Sec.  3.  Lists  of  the  slaves  in  each  of  such  depots,  showing  tlie  name  and  color  of 


'Zl 


such  slaves,  the  place  and  time  d£  thoir  arrest,  and  the  names  of  their  owners,  as 
given  by  tlicmseives,  or  otherwise  ascert;iined,  shall  be  rogulai-lj-  advertised  in 
eacli  state  in  one  or  more  newspapers  of  general  circulation. 

Sec.  4.  While  such  slaves  are  in  depot,  they  niay  bo  employed,  under  proper 
guard,  on  public  works;  but  no  slave  shall  be  removed  from  the  depot  to  which 
he  is  first  carried  for  at  least  one  month  after  the  first  advertisement  of  liis  being 
there,  nor  then,  unless  an  ex.ict  register  is  made  of  the  removal,  and  due  adver- 
tisement made  in  the  newspapers  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  5  Free  access  shall  be  permitted  to  all  persons  desiring  to  inspect  the  said 
slaves  for  the  purpose  of  identifying  them  and  establishing  ownersliip;  and  upon 
duo  proof  they  sliall  be  immediately  restored  to  the  persons  claiming  them. 

Ssc.  6.  It  shall  furthei'  bo  tlio  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  require  the  names 
of  all  slaves  in  the  employment  of  an  officer  or  soldier  of  the  Confederate  army  or 
navy,  with  the  names  and  residence  of  their  owners,  and  of  the  pereon  by  whom 
hired  ont,  and  of  the  officer  or  soldier  hiring,  to  be  reported  to  his  department,  and 
a  full  regiatei  thijreof  to  be  kept  for  public  inspection. 

Sec.  7.  The  President  shall  prescribe  regulations  for  carrying  this  act  into  effect, 
and  provide  for  the  subsistence  of  said  slaves  while  in  such  depots.  [Approved 
October  13,  1862.] 

II.  .Depots  for  recaptured  slaves  arahcreby  cstablished'at  tbo  follow- 
ing places,  viz: 

At  the  camp  of  instruction  at  Richmond,  ia  the  State  of  Virginia. 

"  "  "  Petersburg,  "                 " 

"  "  "  Dublin  Station,  "                 " 

"  "  "  Raleigh,               *  ' 

"     •  '•  "  Columbia,,  " 

"  "  "  Maeon,  ' 

"  "  '■'  Decatur,  '  ' 

"  "  "  .Notasulga,  ' 

"  "  "  Talladega,  ' 

"  "  "  Talla.haseee,  * 

"  "  "  Brookliaveu,  ' 

"  "  *'  Enterprise,  * 

►     "  "  "  Monroe,  ' 

"  "  "  Cswnp  Moore,  ' 

"  "  "  New  Iberia,  ' 

"  "  "  Houston,    '  ' 

"  "  "  Knosville,  ' 

"  "  "  McMinasvillo, 

"  "  "  Little  Rock,  ' 


North  Carolina. 
South  Carolina. 
Georgia. 

Alabama. 

a 

Plorida. 
Mississippi. 

a 

Louisiana. 


Texas. 
Tennessee. 


Arkansas. 


III.  .The  couimandauts  of  the  several  camps  of  instruction  will  pro- 
vide aocessary  quarters  for  all  negroes  scut  to  the  depots ;  will  detail 
sufficient  guards  for /heir  safe-koeping;  provide  for  their  custody,  em- 
ployment, and  subsistence;   rcciuiro  full  and  accurate  registers  to  be 


•Z'Z 

kept,  anil  itdycrtisements,  as  prescribed  by  tbe  net  of  Congress,  to  be 
regularly  made,  aad  afford  all  facilities  to  claimants  to  establish  their 
ownership,  and,  ou  due  p'-oof,  surrender  the  slaves  to  their  owners.  ' 
\ 
IV.  .Commanding  generals  will  require  all  persons  connected  with 
the  army  to  make  immediate  report  of  all  slaves  arrested  or  coming  into 
their  possession;  and,  if  claim  is  not  promptly  made  and  established 
by  the  owner,  will  send  such  slaves,  with  a  register  of  the  place  and 
date  of  their  arrest,  with  as  little  delay  as  practicable,  to  the  nearest 
depot  in  the  state  wherein  the  capture  is  made.  They  will  also  require 
all  officers  and  soldiers  now  employing  slaves  forthvrtth  to  report  the 
same,  and  those  hereafter  employing  them,  within  ten  days  thereafter, 
with  the  names  and  residence  of  their  owners,  and  of  the  person  bj' 
whom  they  were  hired  out,  and  of  the  officer  or  soldier  hiring,  and 
return  such  rejjorts  as  soon  as  received  to.  this  office;  and  will,  in  all 
other  respects,  enforce  from  the  officers  and  men  under  their  command 
a  strict  and  prompt  observance  of  the  requirements  of  the  above-recited 
act  of  Congress. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Jiisjjector-Geueral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "|  Adjutant  and  iNSPECTon-GENERAL's  Office, 

No,  *26.  ■    r  Richmond,  ^farch  7,  1S63. 

V 

The  following  Order  of  General  Robert  E.  Lee  is  adopted  by  the  War 
department,  and  is  republished  for  the  information  and  government  of 
all  concerned  : 

"  To  avoid  the  danger,  if  not  the  certainty,  of  frequent  collisions, 
and  the  consequent  destruction  of  life  and  property,  as  well  as  obstruc- 
tion to  all  trausijortation,  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  the  movements 
of  railroad  trains  should  be  under  one  undivided  control. 

"These  considerations  make  it  imperative  that  all  trains  should  bo 
regulated  in  their  movements  and  speed  only  by  their  conductors  and 
engineers,  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  and  time  tables  of  the 
company. 

"All  the  operations  of  a  road  should  be  controlled  by  its  superintend- 
ent, or  other  authorized  officer;  and  all  orders  for  transportation  of 
every  kind,  and  the  movement  of  every  train,  will  be  directed  through 
him,  when  the  exigencies  of  the  service  demand  a  variation  from  the 
regular  schedule. 


'•Disregard  of  this  rule  will  inevitably  be  attended  with  disastrous 
consequences." 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


OENKRAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutajit  and  Inspector-Cteneral's  Oifics, 

%o.  27.  )  RlcHMO.ND,  March  11,  1863. 

I.. By  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War  the  proceedings,  findings, 
and  sentence  of  the  General  Court  Martial  held  at  Knoxville,  Ten- 
nessee, in  the  case  of  Captain  H.  B.  Latrobc,  ''Latrobe's  Battery." 
approved  by  General  Ileth,  and  forwarded  to  the  War  department  for 
confirmation,  under  th«  ^th  Article  of  War,  are  now,  upon  the  report 
of  the  facts  by  General  Ileth,  and  his  action  thereon,  duly  confirmed, 
and  Captain  H.  B.  Latrobe  ceases  to  bo  an  oflicer  of  the  army  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

II.. So  much  of  the  sentence  awarded  by  General  Court  Martial 
against  Priv.ato  James  T.  Wilder,  Company  E,  4th  Georgia  Volunteers, 
as  directs  his  head  to  be  shaved,  and  he'drummed  out  of  the  service, 
is,  by  direction  of  the  President,  remitted,  and  Private  AVilder  will,  at 
the  expiration  of  the  term  of  his  confinement  as  required  hy  the  sen- 
tence of  the  eour(^,  be  returned  to  duty  with  his  company. 

By  order. 

*  S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  J  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  28.  I  Richmond,  .1/a)-c/i  12,  1S63. 

I.. No  regiment,  battalion,  squadron,  or  company  will  bo  disbanded 
from  the  army  prior  to  expiration  of  service,  without  express  authority 
obtained  from  the  War  department. 

II.  .Brigadier-gopcVals  will  not  be  detached  from  their  brigades,  nor 
colonels  from  their  regiments,  except  on  ordinary  temporary  duty,  with- 
out the  special  authority  of  the  War  department. 

III.. The  appointment  of  officers  of  the  army  being  vested  by  the 
Constitution  in  the  President,  by  and  with  tbo  advice  and  consent  of 


'Seuate,  commanding  and  other  officers  are  hereby  cautioned  against 
assumption  of  this  authority.  All  payments  made  to  persons  ap- 
pointed as  officers  by  military  commandei-s  will  be  charged  against 
the  disbursing  oflTcers  making  such  payments. 

IV.. The  impositions  attempted  to  be  practised  on  officers  of  the 
Quartermasters'  department,  charged  with  paj'ing  troops,  call  for  the 
following  regulation  in  respect  to  the  payment  of  .officers  absent  from 
their  proper  commands,  viz:  regimental  quartermasters  will  furnish 
to  officers  of  their  regiments  *about  to  leave  their  commands  on 
detached  duty  certificates  of  last  payment  made  by  them  to*  such 
officers  ;  which  certificates  will  be  deposited  with  the  pay  officer  mak- 
ing the  next  payment,  who  will,  on  such  further  payment,  give  the 
officers  a  like  certifieate.  P.ayments  to  officers  absent  from  their  ap- 
propriate commands,  except  those  placed  on  detached  duty  by  compe- 
tent authority,  and  sick  and  wounded  officers  absent  by  like  authority, 
are  expressly  prohibited. 

v.. General  hospitals  will  be  under  the  supervision  atid  control  of 
medical  directors  specially  selected  for  the  purpose,  and  announced  as 
such  in  orders  from  this  office.  Medical  directors  of  armies,  army 
corps,  and  departments,  will  not  interfere  with  this  arrangement  in 
respect  to  the  general  hospitals. 

VI.  .Doubts  having  arisen  in  respect  to  the  mode  of  addressing  com- 
munications, and  in  passing  them  through  the  channel  provided  in  the 
34th  article  of  General  Regulations,  it  is  hereby  directed  that  the  party 
making  the  communication  will  address  himself  to  the  staff  officer  of 
the  general  or  other  ccftnmauding  officer  who  may  have  the  right  finally 
to  decide  on  the  question  or  application  presented;  and,  if  the  subject 
matter  of  the  communication  be  such  as  to  require  the  action  of  the 
War  department,  it  will  be  addressed  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General  through  the  usual  channel.  All  communications  in  the 
ascending  lino  will  be  passed  through  the  several  intermediate  com- 
manders, until  they  reach  the  officer  having  the  final  control.  For 
example :  communications  from  the  members  of  a  company  will  pass 
through  the  commander  of  the  company;  thence  to  the  commander  of 
the  battalion  or  regiment;  thence  to  the  commander  of  the  brigade; 
thence  f;o  the  division  commander;  next  to  the  commander  of  the  army 
corps;  and  finally  to  the  General  commanding-in- chief,  for  their 
several  remarks;  and,  if  further  rfeference  be  required,  to  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-General. 

VII-  .All  recommendations  from  ^cers  of  the  army  for  military  ap- 
pointments to  be  conferred  will,  besides  giving  the  character  and  quali- 


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fications  of  the  person  rccomraeniled,  name  the  state  in  which  he  was 
born,  and  of  which  he  claims  to  be  a  citizen. 

Vlir.  .Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  97,  December  1,  1862, 
may  be  so  modified  as  to  read,  "Officers  and  agents  of  the  Quarter- 
masters' department  are  hereby  ordered  not  to  interfere  with  leather 
purchased  or  contracted  for  by  ofiScersor  agents  of,  or  contractors  with, 
the  Ordnance  department." 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENKRAI/  ORDUKS.*!  Adjutant  and  Insi'ector-General'3  OrriCE, 

No.  29.  )  KicnMOND,  March  14,  1863. 

I.. At  a  court  of  inquiry  convened  at  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 
February  26,  186."?,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  38,  Adjutant  and 
Inspector-General's  Oflice,  Richmond,  Va.,  issued  in  pursuance  of  an 
act  approved  April  21,  1862.  was  arraigned  and  tried  Lieutenant 
Thomas  Nail,  Company  B,  6th  Georgia  volunteers,  on  the  charge  of 
drunkenness. 

II.. The  court  confirmed  the  pica  of  "guilty"  by  the  accu.'ied,  and 
sentenced  him  to  bo  suspended  from  command  and  pay  for  one  month, 
and  to  be  publicly  reprimanded. 

III.. The  proceedings  having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of 
War,  to  be  laid  before  the  President,  the  following  decision  has  been 
made  thereon  : 

"  The  sentence  of  the  court  approved  ;  but  in  consideration  of  the 
habitual  sobriety  of  Lieutenant  Nail,  and  his  previous  good  character, 
80  much  of  the  sentence  as  suspends  him  from  command  and  pay  is 
remitted." 

Lieutenant  Nail  will  therefore  bo  restored  to  duty  with  his  company ; 
but  the  department  takes  occasion  to  express  its  decided  disapproba- 
tion of  his  conduct  on  the  occasion  referred  to  in  the  proceedings, 

IV.  .The  Court  of  Inquiry  in  the  foregoing  case  is  hereby  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General, 


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GKNERAL  ORDEKS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspkctor-Oeneral's  Office, 

No.  30.     •         )  KiCHMOSD,  March  18,  1863. 

I.  .Any  employee  of  a  government  establishment  who  shall  leave 
such  employment  shall  not  be  received  at  any  other  government 
establishment,  or  by  any  contractor  under  the  government,  unless  he 
exhibits  a  proper  discharge  from  the  employment  which  he  leaves. 

II.. Any  contractor  under  the  government  who  shall  employ  any 
■  workman  leaving  without  proper  discharge  a  government  establish- 
ment, or  the  employment  of  another  contractor  under  the  government, 
shall  be  notified  at  once  that  the  detailed  men  and  conscripts  in  his 
employment  be  returned  to  their  proper  officers  upon  the  report  of  the 
facts  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

III.. The  orders  heretofore  given  are  repeated,  that  conscripts  or 
detailed  men  leaving  their  employment  without  written  permission 
shall  be  reported  to  the  nearest  enrolling  officer,  to  be  tried  and  pun- 
ished as  deserters. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjitlaiit  and  Tnspector-Gcucral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  lNbi>ECT0ii-Gi2NEEAi,'s  Officb 

No.  31.  )  Richmond,  March  19,  1863. 

In  consequence  of  numerous  applications  made  by  various  persons 
to  the  War  department,  it  is  obvious  that  some  misconception  in  regard 
to  the  instructions  of  the  Secretary  of  War  in  relation  to  the  impress- 
ment of  supplies  must  exist  on  the  part  of  the  people,  or  that  the 
agents  of  the  government  have  violated  their  instructions:  now,  there- 
fore, for  the  purpose  of  removing  such  misconception,  and  to  prevent 
any  violation  of  those  instruction.s,  it  is  hereby  ordered : 

I.  .That  no  officer  of  the  government  shall,  under  any  circum-stances 
whatever,  impress  the  supplies  which  a  party  has  for  his  own  consump- 
tion, or  that  of  his  family,  employees,  or  slaves. 

II.  .That  no  officer  shall  at  any  time,  unless  specially  ordered  so  to 
do  by  a  general  commanding,  in  a  case  of  exigency,  impress  supplies 
which  are  on  their  way  to  market  for  sale  on  arrival. 

III.  .These  orders  were  included  in  the  instructions  originally  issued 
in  relation  to  impressment  by  the  Secretary  of  War;  and  the  officers 


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exerci3in<5  such  authority  are  again  notified  that  "  any  one  acting 
without  or  beyond"  the  authoritj' given  in  those  instructions  will  be 
held  strictly  responsible.  • 

IV.  .When  non-commissioned  oflBcers,  musicians,  or  privates,  entitled 
to  furloughs  under  the  act  of  December  11,  1861,  or  that  of  April  16, 
18G2,  have  died,  or  may  hereafter  die,  before  the  receipt  thereof,  their 
personal  representatives  shall  be  allowed  the  commutation  value  of 
transportation  from  the  point  where  such  parties  die  to  their  homes 
and  back. 

v..  When  non-commissioned  oHicers,  musiciaips,  or  privates,  entitled 
under  either  of  the  preceding  acts  to  a  furlough,  shall  have  been,  or 
may  hereafter  be,  promoted  to  the  rank  of  commissioned  ofiiccrs  prior 
to  the  receipt  thereof,  they  shall  be  allowed  the  same  commutation  as 
is  provided  in  the  previous  paragraph,  or,  when  they  go  on  leave,  the 
transportation  in  kind,  at  their  option. 

VI.  .Claims  arising  under  paragraph  I  will  be  settled  by  the  Second 
Auditor;  those  under  paragraph  II  by  officers  of  the  Quartermasters' 
department.  In  the  latter  class,  the  facts  must  be  attested  by  the  cer- 
tificate of  the  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment  to  which  the  claim- 
ant belonged  at  the  date  of  his  promotion. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adj\it((nt  and  InHpccior-Geucral. 


GENKRAL  ORDKKS."!  Adjutant  and  Inspkctor-Oenerai.'s  Office, 

No.  32.  j  EicnMOND,  March  21,  1863. 

I.. Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  66,  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General's  office,  September  12,  1862,  is  so  far  amended  as  to  road  as 
follows  : 

Enrolling  or  recruiting  officers,  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties  under 
the  Conscript  or  other  acts,  are  enjoined  not  to  remove  or  interfere 
with  workmen  or  employees  at  the  nitre,  lead,  or  copper  works,  or 
mines  or  furnaces  worked  by  government  officers,  or  by  contractors  for 
the  Ordnance  department,  without  first  apprising  and  obtaining  the 
consent  of  the  superintendent  or  officer  in  charge,  who  will  be  held 
strictly  responsible  for  any  abuse  or  evasion  of  the  law. 

II.. The  operation  of  paragraph  1253,  Confederate  States  Army 
Regulations,  is  heieliy  suspoud'^l  during  the  existing  war. 


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III.  .Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  2^o.  30,  current  series,  is  amend- 
ed to  read  as  follows: 

Any  contractor  under  the  government  who  shall  employ  any  work- 
man leaving  witiiout  jiroper  discharge  a  government  establishmcftt,  or 
the  emploj-ment  of  another  contractor  under  the  government,  shall  bo 
notified  at  once  that  the  detailed  men  and  conscripts  in  his  employment 
be  returned  to  their  proper  officers  upon  report  of  the  facts  to  Iho  chief 
of  the  bureau  or  department  for  the  service  of  which  the  details  were 
made. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Ailjutaiit  and  Inspector- General. 


GENBIIAL  ORDERS, 1  Aujui.vxt  and  I.vsPECToa-GENERAL's  Office, 

No.  33.  j  KiCHMOSD,  March  26,  1863. 

I.. The  corps  of  officers  for  ordnance  duty  will  hereafter  be  com- 
posed exclusively  as  follows,  vi?;  : 

1st.  Officers  of  the  regular  Confederate  army  detailed  by  the  War 
department  for  ordnance  duty. 

2d.  Officers  of  the  provisional  artillery  appointed  under  the  act  of 
Congress,  April  21,  1862. 

.Td.  Officers  of  the  provisional  artillery  for  ordnance  duty  appointed 
under  act  of  lOth  September,  1862  (including  at  present  those  on  duty 
under  General  Orders,  No.  12,  1863). 

4th.  Officers  of  artillery  in  the  provi.'jional  arm}'  and  volunteer  corps 
appointed  under  act  of  Congress  approved  January  22,  1862,  and  de- 
tailed on  ordnance  duty  by  the  War  department. 

5th.  Officers  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau  appointed  under  act 
of  Congress. 

II.. Officers  horotofure  assigned  to  ordnance  duty  under  provisions 
of  General  Orders,  No.  24-  and  No.  46,  of  1862,  although  not  forming  a 
part  of  the  ordnance  corps  will  continue  to  be  recognized  in  their 
positions  until  relieved  by  the  assignment  of  officers  of  the  ordnance 
corps  regularly  appointed  or  detailed.  Officers  of  this  class  will  bo 
replaced  by  the  regularly  appointed  officers  assigned  for  ordnance 
duty  at  the  discretion  of  any  general  commanding  an  army  or  depart- 
ment, when  the  interest  of  the  service  requires  it. 

All  such  changes  will  be  communicated  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance,  at 
Richmond. 


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III..  All  officers  in  charge  of  arsonr.ls,  .armories,  work-sbops,  depots, 
or  other  posts  where  work  is  perroruied  by  detailed  men,  who  are  paid 
by  the  dcparlment  in  which  llicy  are  employed,  and  who  relinquish 
claim  for  pny  as  soldiers,  ,«hall  make  monthly  reports  to  the  chiefs  of 
their  respective  bureaus,  containing  full  lists  and  descriptions  of  the 
men,  with  a  correct  statement  of  tlie  pay  they  receive.  These  reports 
will  he  forwarded  to  the  Qiiartermaster-Gcneral,  for  the  information 
and  <;uidance  of  (he  p.ay  lUpartment.  to  prevent  the  payment  of  fraud- 
jilent  claiiiK-:. 

IV..  All  generals  or  otheroflicers  commanding  military  departments 
or  districts  will  require  from  provost  mar.«hals  and  commandants  of 
prisons  monthly  reports  of  all  citizens  .tnd  other  persons  not  connected 
with  the  Confederate  army  held  in  confinement,  with  specifications  of 
date  and  cause  of  arrest,  and  by  whom  arrested,  accompanied  with  such 
remai-ks  as  they  may  deem  proper,  and  forward  the  same  without  delay 
to  this  office. 

V.  .Paragraph  YI,  (General  Orders.  Xo.  .SI,  current  series,  is  so  far 
amended  as  to  read  as  fidlows  : 

Claims  arising  under  paragraph  IV  will  be  settled  by  the  Second 
Auditor;  those  under  paragraph  V  by  oflicers  of  the  Quartermasters' 
department.  In  the  latter  class,  the  facts  must  Ve  attested  by  the  cer- 
tificate of  the  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment  to  which  the  claimant 
belonged  at  the  date  of  his  promotion. 

Bv  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-Oeneral. 


GEN'EltAL  OUDKRS.']  Adjtta.nt  and  Ikspector-Gexerai.'s  Office, 

No.  34.  )  JiicnmoND,  April  1.  1863. 

I.. The  attention  of  commanding  and  other  olliocrs  is  called  to  the 
act  of  Congress  of  April  21,  1862,  as  published  in  General  Orders,  No. 
38,  of  that  year.  A  more  rigid  enforcement  of  the  requirements  of  that 
act  on  the  part  of  commanding  officers  therein  referred  to  is  deemed 
important  to  the  interest  of  the  .service. 

II.. The  geographical  limits  of  the  command  of  Licutcuant-tileneral 
Lougstrect.  embracing  the  Defences  of  Richmond,  and  extending  south, 
to  incluile  the  State  of  North  Carolina — the  whole  under  the  supervi- 
sion and  general  direction  of  General  R.  E.  Lee  —  will  be  divided  into 
three  Military  departments  as  follows:   All  north  of  the  James  river, 


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for  tVie  defence  of  Richmond,  will  constitute  the  Department  of  Rich- 
mond, under  Major-G-eneral  Elzey  —  Head-quarters,  Richmond.  All 
that  portion  of  Virginia  south  of  the  James  river,  and  east  of  the 
County  of  Powhatan,  will  constitute  the  Department  of  Southern  Vir- 
ginia, under  Major-General  French  —  Head-quarters  at  some  central 
point  near  the  Blaekwater.  The  State  of  North  Carolina  will  consti- 
tute the  Department  of  North  Carolina,  under  Major-General  D.  H. 
Hill — Head-quarters,  Goldsboro'. 

III.. The  price  of  beef  hides,  transferred  in  accordance  with  para- 
graph III,  General  Orders,  No.  64,  of  1S62,  will  be  at  the  following 
rates:  For  green  hides  five  cents  per  pound,  and  dry  hides  ten  cents 
per  pound,  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  department;  and  for  all  beef  hides, 
east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  thirty  cents  per  pound. 

These  prices  will  be  paid  by  the  quartermasters  and  assistant  quar- 
termasters to  the  commiss.aries  transferring  them,  and  the  latter  will 
account  for  the  fund  thus  received,  in  their  next  accounts  current. 

IV.. By  General  Orders,  No.  61,  paragraph  II,  last  series  from  this 
ofRce,  quartermasters  are  directed  to  bear  on  their  returns,  ambulances 
and  wagons  for  the  transportation  of  regimental  hospital  supplies,  the 
teams  and  drivers.  It  is  also  their  duty  to  keep  them  in  good  condi- 
tion, and  ready  for  active  service.  Commanders  will  require  the  per- 
formance of  thiB  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Iiiifjiector-Geiieral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inkpf.ctor-Genhral's  Office, 

No.  35.  J  JliciiMOND,  April  4,  1863. 

I.. At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Pollard,  Alabama,  De- 
cember 9,  1S62,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  93,  Head-quarters 
District  of  the  Gulf,  were  arraigned  and  tried: 

1. — Major  M.  R.  Marks,  2d  Alabama  cavalry  : 

On  the  following  charges.     (Specifications  omitted  in  this  Order.) 
Gharije  Ist :  Violation  of  the  24th  Article  of  War. 
Charije  2d:  Violation  of  the  99th  Article  of  War. 

Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  find  the  accused.  Major  M.  R.  Marks,  2d  regiment  Ala- 


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bima  cavalry,  guilty  of  the  charges  preferred,  and  sentence  him  to  be 
dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  Confoderate  States. 

2.   Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  regiment  Aliibaraa  cavalry. 

Charge  \et :  Violation  of  the  6th  Article  of  AVar. 
Charge  2d:  Violation  of  the  24th  Article  of  War. 
Charge  3d:  Violation  of  the  83d  Article  of  AVar. 

Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  find  the  accused,  Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  regiment  Ala- 
bama cavalry,  guilty  of  the  charges  preferred,  and  sentence  him  to  be 
dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

II.. The  proceedings,  findings,  and  sentences  in  the  foregoing  cases 
having  been  submitted  to  the  President,  are  by  him  approved.     Major 
M.  R.  Marks  and  Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  Alabama  cavalry,  cease  to 
be  olficers  of  the  Confederate  States  army  from  this  date. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-Geneval. 


GENERAL  0RDERS,1  Adjutant  and  In.spector-Oeneral's  Office, 

No.  36.  )  Richmond.  April  6,  1863. 

The  superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau  is  authorized  to 
pay,  from  the  appropriation  for  the  purchase  and  manufacture  of  nitre, 
the  actual  travelling  expenses  of  officers  of  the  nitre  corps  on  duty, 
under  orders,  in  lieu  of  any  commutation  for  the  time  of  rations  and 

forage. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  37.  J  Richmond,  April  6, 1863. 

I.  .The  following  act  of  Congress,  concerning  "impressments,"  and 
the  instructions  of  the  AVar  department  respecting  it,  are  published  for 
the  information  and  direction  of  all  concerned: 

"AVhenever  the  exigencies  of  any  army  in  the  field  are  such  as  to 
make  impressments  of  forage,  articles  of  subsistence,  or  other  property, 


absolutely  ncccssar}^  tben  such  imin-cssincuts  may  be  made  by  tbc 
officer  or  officers  whose  duty  it  is  to  furnish  such  forage,  articles  of 
subsistence,  or  other  property,  for  such  army.  In  cases  where  the 
owner  of  such  property  and  the  impressing  officer  can  not  agree  upon 
the  value  thereof,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  suc-h  impressing  officer,  upon 
an  affidavit  in  writing  of  the  owner  of  such  property,  or  his  agent,  that 
such  property  was  grown,  raised,  or  produced  by  said  owner,  or  is  held 
or  has  been  purchased  by  him,  not  for  sale  or  speculation,  but  for  his 
own  use  or  consumption,  to  cause  the  same  to  be  ascertained  and  de- 
termined by  the  judgment  of  two  loyal  and  disinterested  citizens  of  the 
city,  county,  or  parish  in  which  such  impressments  may  be  made — one 
to  be  selected  by  the  owner,  one  by  the  impressing  officer;  and,  in  the 
event  of  their  disagreement,  these  two  shall  choose  an  umpire  of  like 
qualifieatians,  whose  decision  shall  be  final.  The  persons  thus  selected, 
after  taking  an  oath  to  appraise  the  property  impressed  fairly  and  im- 
partially (which  oath,  as  well  as  the  affidavit  provided  for  in  this 
section,  the  impressing  officer  is  hereby  authorized  to  administer  and 
certify),  shall  proceed  to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so 
impressed,  whether  the  absolute  ownership  or  the  temporary  use  thereof 
only  is  required. 

"Sec.  2.  'That  the  officer  or  person  impressing  property  as  aforesaid, 
shall,  at  the  time  of  said  taking,  pay  to  the  owner,  his  agent,  or  attor- 
ney, the  compensation  fixed  bj'  said  appraisers;  and  shall  also  give 
to  the  owner,  or  person  controlling  said  property,  a  certificate,  over  his 
official  signature,  specifying  the  battalion,  regiment,  brigade,  division, 
or  corps  to  which  he  belongs,  that  said  property  is  essential  for  the  use 
of  the  army,  could  not  be  otherwise  procured,  and  was  taken  through 
absolute  necessity;  setting  forth  the  time  and  place  when  and  where 
taken,  the  amount  of  compensation  fixed  by  said  appraisers,  and  the 
sum,  if  any,  paid  for  the  same.  Said  certificate  shall  be  evidence  for 
the  owner,  as  well  of  the  taking  of  said  property  for  the  public  use,  as 
the  right  of  the  owner  to  the  amount  of  compensation  fixed  as  afore- 
said. And  in  case  said  officer  or  person  taking  said  property  shall 
have  failed  to  pay  the  owner  or  his  agent  said  compensation  as  herein- 
before required,  then  said  owner  shall  be  eutitled  to  the  speedy  pay- 
ment of  the  same  by  the  proper  disbursing  officer;  which,  when  so 
paid,  shall  be  in  full  satisfaction  of  all  claim  against  the  Government 
of  the  Confederate  States. 

"Sec.  3.  Whenever  the  appraisement  provided  for  in  the  first  ser- 
tion  of  this  act  shall,  for  acy  reason,  bo  impracticable  at  the  time  of 
said  impressment,  then  and  in  that  case  the  value  of  the  property  im- 
pressed shall  be  assessed  as  soon  as  possible  by  two  loyal  and  disinter- 


;}:5 

CatcJ  citizens  of  the  ciiy,  counly,  or  parish  wlicrciu  tiit;  iJivij'crlj  was 
taken,  chosen  as  follows:  One  by  the  owner  and  one  by  the  Commis- 
sary or  Quartermaster-General,  or  his  agent,  who,  in  case  of  disagree- 
ment, shall  choose  a  third  citizen  of  like  qnalifications  as  an  umpire,  to 
decide  the  matters  in  dispute,  who  shall  be  sworn  as  aforesaid,  who 
shall  hear  the  proofs  adduced  by  the  parties  as  to  the  value  of  said 
property,  and  assess  a  just  compeusatiou  therefor,  according  to  the 
testimony. 

'■Sec.  4.  That  whenever  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  be  of  opinion 
that  it  is  nccessar}-  to  take  private  pmpcrtj-  for  public  use,  by  reason  of 
the  impracticabilily  of  procuring  the  same  by  purchase,  so  as  to  accu- 
mulate necessary  supplies  f(ir  the  army,  or  the  good  of  the  service,  in 
any  locality-,  he  may,  bj'  general  order,  through  the  proper  subordinate 
officers,  authorize  such  property  to  be  taken  for  the  public  use:  the 
compensation  duo  the  owner  for  the  same  to  be  determined  and  the 
value  fixed  as  provided  for  in  the  first  and  second  sections  of  this  act. 

"Skc.  5.  Thai  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President,  as  early  as  prac- 
ticable after  the  passage  of  this  act,  to  appoint  a  commissioner  in  each 
state  where  property  shall  be  taken  for  the  public  use,  and  request  the 
governor  of  such  of  the  states  in  which  the  President  shall  appoint  said 
commissioner  to  appoint  another  commissioner,  to  act  in  conjunction 
with  the  commissioner  appointed  by  the  President,  who  shall  receive 
the  compensation  of  eight  dollars  per  day,  and  ten  cents  per  mile  as 
mileage,  to  be  paid  by  the  Confederate  government.  8aid  commis- 
sioners shall  constitute  a  board,  whose  dutj'  it  shall  be  to  fix  upon  the 
prices  to  be  paid  bj'  the  government  for  all  property  impressed  or  taken 
for  the  public  use  as  aforesaid,  so  as  to  afford  just  compensation  to  the 
owners  thereof.  Said  commissioners  shall  agree  upon  and  publish  a 
schedule  of  prices  every  two  months  or  oftencr,  if  they  shall  deem  it 
proper;  and  in  the  event  thej'  shall  not  be  able  to  agree  in  any  matter 
confided  to  them  in  this  act,  they  shall  have  power  to  appoint  an 
umpire  to  decide  the  matter  in  dispute,  whoso  decision  shall  be  the 
decision  of  the  board;  and  said  umpire  shall  receive  the  same  rate  of 
compensation  for  the  time  he  shall  serve  allowed  to  said  commissioners 
respcctivcl}' :  Provided,  that  said  commissioners  shall  be  resiilcnts  of 
the  state  for  which  they  shall  be  appointed;  and  if  the  Governor  of 
any  state  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  appoint  said  commissioner  within 
ten  days  after  a  request  to  do  so  by  the  President,  then  the  President 
shall  appoint  b  )th  commissioners,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Senate. 

"Sec.  6.  That  all  property  impressed,  or  taken  for  the  public  use,  a."? 
aforesaid,  in  the  hands  of  any  person  other  than  the  persons  who  bnvo 


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raised,  grown,  or  produced  the  same,  or  persons  holding  the  same  for 
their  own  use  or  consumption,  and  who  shall  make  the  affidavit  as 
hereinbefore  required,  shall  be  paid  for  according  to  the  schedule  of 
prices  fixed  by  the  commissioners  as  aforesaid.  Bnt  if  the  ofiBcer  im- 
pressing or  taking  for  the  public  use  such  property,  and  the  owner, 
shall  differ  as  to  the  quality  of  the  article  or  property  impressed  or 
taken  as  aforesaid,  thereby  making  it  fall  within  a  higher  or  lower 
price  named  in  the  schedule,  then  the  owner  or  agent  and  the  ofiBcer 
impressing  or  taking,  as  aforesaid,  may  select  each  a  loyal  and  disin- 
terested citizen,  of  the  qualifications  as  aforesaid,  to  determine  the 
quality  of  said  article  or  property,  who  shall,  in  case  of  disagreement, 
appoint  an  umpire  of  like  qualifications,  and  his  decision,  if  approved 
by  the  oflicer  impressing,  shall  be  final;  but  if  not  approved,  the  im- 
pressing officer  shall  send  the  award  to  the  commissioners  of  the  state 
where  the  property  is  impressed,  with  his  reasons  for  disapproving  the 
same,  and  said  commissioners  may  hear  such  proofs  as  the  parties  may 
respectively  adduce,  and  their  decision  shall  be  final:  Provided,  that 
the  owner  may  receive  the  price  off'ered  by  the  impressing  officer,  with- 
out prejudice  to  his  claim  to  receive  the  higher  compensation. 

"Sec.  7.  That  the  property  necessary  for  the  support  of  the  owner 
and  his  family,  and  to  carry  on  his  ordinary  agricultural  and  mechani- 
cal business,  to  be  ascertained  by  the  appraisers,  to  be  appointed  as 
provided  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  under  oath,  shall  not  be  taken 
or  impressed  for  the  public  use;  and  when  the  impressing  officer  and 
the  owner  can  not  agree  as  to  the  quantity  of  property  necessary  as 
aforesaid,  then  the  decision  of  the  said  appraisers  shall  be  binding  on 
the  officer  and  all  other  persons. 

"Sec.  8.  Where  property  has  been  impressed  for  temporary  use,  and 
is  lost  or  destroyed,  without  the  default  of  the  owner,  the  Government 
of  the  Confederate  States  shall  pay  a  just  compeasatiou  therefor,  to  be 
ascertained  by  appraisers  appointed  and  qualified  as  provided  in  the 
first  section  of  this  act.  If  such  property  when  returned  has,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  owner,  teen  injured  while  in  the  public  use,  the  amount 
of  damage  thereby  sustained  shall  be  determined  in  the  manner  de- 
scribed in  the  third  section  of  this  act,  the  officer  returning  the  prop- 
erty being  authorized  to  act  on  behalf  of  the  government;  and  upon 
such  inquiry,  the  certificate  of  the  value  of  the  property,  when  origi- 
nally impressed,  shall  be  received  as  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  value 
thereof. 

"Sec.  9.  Where  slaves  are  impressed  by  the  Confederate  governvnent 
to  labor  on  fortifications,  or  other  public  works,  the  impressment  shall 
be  made  by  said  government  according  to  the  rules  and  regulations 


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provided  in  the  laws  of  tUo  state  wherein  they  are  impressed;  and  in 
the  absence  of  such  law,  in  accordance  with  such  rules  and  regulations, 
not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  as  the  Secretary  of 
War  shall  from  time  to  time  prescribe:  Provided,  that  no  impressment 
of  slaves  shall  be  made  when  they  can  he  hired  or  procured  by  the  con- 
sent of  the  owner  or  agent. 

"Skc.  10.  That  previous  to  the  first  day  of  December  next,  no  slave 
laboring  on  a  farm  or  plantation  exclusively  devoted  to  the  production 
of  grain  and  provisions,  shall  bo  taken  for  the  public  use,  without  the 
consent  of  the  owner,  except  in  case  of  urgent  necessity. 

"Sec.  11.  That  any  commissioned  or  non-commissioned  officer  or 
private  who  shall  violate  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  tried  before 
the  military  court  of  the  corps  to  which  ho  is  attached,  on  complaint 
made  bj'  the  owner  or  other  person ;  .and  on  cBnviction,  if  an  othcer,  he 
shall  be  cashiered  and  put  into  the  ranks  as  a  private;  and  if  a  non- 
commissioned officer  or  private,  he  shall  suffer  such  punishnient,  not 
inconsistent  with  military  law,  as  the  court  may  direct." 

II.  .1.  By  the  authority  of  the  Act  of  Congress  aforesaid,  the  Secre- 
tary of  War  hereby  recognizes  impressment  as  a  legal  and  operative 
mode  of  securing  necessary  supplies  of  subsistence,  medical  and  quar- 
termasters' stores  for  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field, 
and  to  accumulate  them  in  magazines,  posts,  atod  depots,  owing  to 
the  impracticability  of  procuring  them  by  contract. 

2.  Impressments  may  be  made  under  orders  from  generals  command- 
ing armies,  departments,  corps,  divisions,  brigades,  and  by  commanders 
of  detAched  parlies  and  posts,  when  a  necessity  arises;  which  orders 
may  be  executed  by  quartermasters,  commissaries,  or  medical  purvey- 
ors and  their  subordinates,  for  their  respective  departments.  The  Quar- 
termaster-General, Commissarj'-Genoral,  and  Surgeon -General,  may 
designate  the  officers  and  persons  who  shall  be  competent  to  make  im- 
pressments to  accumulate  supplies  at  posts  and  depots. 

3.  No  officer  or  agent  shall  impress  the  necessary  supplies  which  any 
person  may  have  for  the  consumption  of  himself,  his  family,  employee!!, 
slaves,  or  to  carry  on  his  ordinary  mechanical,  manufacturing,  or  agricul- 
tural employments. 

4.  Before  any  impressment  of  property  shall  take  place,  the  impress- 
ing officer,  or  his  agent,  shall  make  an  offer,  addressed  to  the  owner,  his 
bailee,  or  other  agent,  to  purchase  the  property,  describing  the  prop- 
erty he  wishes  to  purchase,  the  price  to  be  paid,  and  the  mode  of  pay- 
ment, whether  in  money  or  by  certificate,  and  stating  that  upon  the 
refusal  of  the  price  offered,  that  compensation  for  the  property  will  be 
made  according  to  the  Act  of  Congress  aforesaid  for  the  regulation  of 


impressments:  which  notice  shall  bind  the  said  propertj'  until  the  com- 
pletion of  the  negotiation  for  the  sale  or  appropriation  thereof,  so  that 
there  can  be  no  removal  or  transfer  of  the  same. 

6.  In  the  event  of  the  refusal  of  the  price  offered,  the  impressing 
oflBeer  shall  proceed  to  settle  the  compensation  to  be  paid,  according  to 
the  first  section  of  the  act  aforesaid,  if  the  property  belongs  to  a  person 
who  has  grown,  raised,  or  produced  the  same,  or  who  holds  or  has 
purchased  the  same  for  his  own  use  or  consumption;  but  the  said 
property  shall  bo  paid  for  according  to  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  afore- 
said, if  the-  property  is  hold  fir  sale  or  otlier  purposes  than  those  I)eforc 
mentioned. 

6.  That  the  property  shall  remain  in  the  possession  of  the  owner,  his 
bailee,  or  agent,  and  at  his  risk,  during  the  pendency  of  the  proceedings 
for, the  ascertainment  of  the  compensation,  unless  it  shall  be  otherwise 
agreed  to,  or  unless  sotaS  urgent  necessity  shall  require  the  possession 
of  the  property  to  be  changed.  In  case  of  a  change  of  possession,  the 
Confederate  States  shall  be  regarded  as  the  owner,  and  the  property 
shall  be  held  for  their  account  and  risk. 

7.  The  impressing  oflicer  shall,  at  the  dfite  of  the  impressment,  pay 
to  the  owner,  his  agent,  or  attorney  in  fact,  the  compensation  agreed 
upon,  if  it  be  practicable;  but  if  ho  cannot  do  so,  he  shall  give  a  certi- 
ficate, according  to  the  second  section  of  the  act  aforesaid;  which  shall 
be  paid  upon  preseutjition  to  the  disbursing  officers,  who  shall  be  des- 
ignated for  that  purpose. 

8.  Impressments  which  shall  be  made  before  the  appointment  of  the 
commissioners  designated  in  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  aforesaid,  shall, 
notwithstanding,  be  legal,  and  iu  the  cases  provided  for  by  that  section 
a  portion  of  the  propert,y  shall  be  retained  as  samples,  so  that  the  price 
may  be  settled  and  compensation  adjusted  according  to  the  provisions 
of  the  same. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
AilJiitiDit  (Hid  Insjjcclor-Genevul. 


GENERAL  O'lDERS.)  Adjutant  and  Ixspectok-Gexeral's  Office. 

Na.  38.  J  KiCiiMOND,  April  7,  1863. 


L.Tlie  following  provision  of  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  Virginia, 
passed  March  2G,  1S63,  is,  by  direction  of  the  President,  published  for 
the  information  and  guidance  of  such  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  Con- 
federate States  army  as  it  concerns: 

'•7.  Be  it  further  enacted,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  governor  of 


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the  cominonwealth  to  issue  his  proclamation  giving  notice  to  the  quali- 
fied votors  of  the  state  in  the  militarj'  service  of  the  state  or  of  the 
Confederate  States,  or  who  may  be  absent  from  the  county  or  corpora- 
tion of  their  residence,  because  of  the  presence  of  the  public  enemy,  of 
their  right  to  vote  for  members  of  the  general  assembl)',  b_y  virtue  of 
the  provisions  of  the  first,  second,  and  fourth  sections  of  the  ordinance 
passed  by  the  Convention  of  Virginia  (No.  99)  on  the  sixth  d.iy  of  De- 
cember, 1861.  And  also  to  all  whom  it  may  concern,  of  the  passage  of 
this  act,  and  of  the  rights  and  duties  set  forth  in  its  provisions;  and  it 
shall  further  be  his  dutj'  to  request  the  President  of  the  Confederate 
States  to  issue  au  order  to  all  commandants  of  camps,  posts,  and  de- 
tachments in  command  of  Virginia  troops,  requiring  them  to  give  their 
aid  in  the  duo  execution  of  the  ordinance  aforesaid,  and  of  this  act." 

II.  .Cadets,  on  attaining  their  majority,  will  be  examined,  and  if 
found  competent  will  be  promoted  to  the  grade  of  second  lieutenant  in 
the  arm  of  the  service  to  which  thej'  arc  attached.  Commanders  of 
armies  in  the  field  are  charged  with  the  assembling  of  the  requisite 
boards. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adj'iituiU  and  Iiinpeclor-General. 


(!i;nhi;.\1,  OKDKRS,!  .Adjutant  and  Inspector-Ge.neral's  Officb, 

No.  39.  j  RiCHMO.vn.  April  10,  ISG.'^. 

I.. That  in  all  cases  of  impressment  heretofore  made  under  the 
authority  of  any  of  the  persons  mentioned  in  paragraph  second  of 
section  eleven,  of  General  Orders,  No.  .37,  in  which  the  property  ims 
pressed  is  cither  in  the  possession  of  the  owner  or  of  the  impressing 
ofTieer  or  his  subordinates,  and  the  compensation  therefor  shall  not 
bare  been  adjusted,  and  it  shall  be  necessary  to  determine  the  compen- 
sation to  be  made,  it  shall  be  lawful  to  employ  the  rules  and  agencies 
provided  in  the  Act  of  Congress  concerning  impressment,  and  the 
General  Orders  aforesaid,  for  that  purpose,  in  the  same  manner  and 
under  the  same  circumstances  as  if  the  impressment  had  been  made 
since  the  date  of  the  same. 

II. ."  Conscript.s  examined  prior  to  the  publication  of  General  Or- 
ders, No.  22,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  oflBce,  February  23, 
186.3,  and  excused  from  military  service,  for  reasons  announced  in  that 
order  as  insufficient  cause  for  exemption,  will  be  re-examined  by  the 
examining  board  of  surgeons  anpointed  for  the  different  congressional 


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districts,  and  if  not  deomed  unfit  for  military  duty  under  the  instruc- 
tions issued,  will  be  received  into  service." 

"Temporary  exemption"  vyill  not  l)o  given  for  a  -'period  beyond 
thirty  days."' 

B3'  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OJtDERS. )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Offiob, 

No.  40.  )  Richmond,  April  11,  1863. 

I.. At  a  court  of  inquiry  convened  January  20,  ISBPj,  at  Quincy, 
Florida,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders  of  January  8,  1863,  Department 
of  Florida,  and  in  pursuance  of  the  Act  of  21st  April,  1862,  "  to  punish 
drunkenness  in  the  army,"  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Captain  Haley  T.  Blocker,  Blocker's  cavalry,  P.  A.  C.  S. : 

On  the  charge  of  drunkenness. 
(The  specifications  are  omitted  in  this  order,  on  account  of  their  pro- 
lixity.) 

Finding  and  Sentence. 

The  court  find  the  accused  -'guilty"  of  the  charge,  and  sentence  him 
to  be  suspended  from  his  command  for  twenty  days. 

II.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  submitted  to 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  before  the  President,  have  been  re- 
turned to  this  oflace,  with  the  following  order  thereon  endorsed  : 

"The  finding  of  the  court  of  inquiry,  convened  at  Quinc^y,  Florida, 
in  the  case  of  Captain  Haley  T.  Blocker,  of  the  cavalry,  charged 
with  drunkenness,  under  the  Act  of  Congress  of  April  21st,  1862,  has 
been  examined,  and  upon  consideration  thereof,  the  same  is  approved. 
The  sentence  of  the  court  is  regarded  as  very  lenient,  and  the  depart- 
ment can  not  but  express  the  hope  that  it  will  be  received  by  the  officer 
as  a  solemn  admonition  as  well  as  a  rebuke. 

"  The  department,  in  reviewing  the  proceedings,  is  compelled  to  ex- 
press its  disapprobation  of  the  harsh  language  employed  against  the 
prosecutor,  in  the  course  of  the  same,  by  the  defendant's  counsel.  The 
prosecutor  performed  a  duty  imposed  by  Act  of  Congress. 

III.  .The  general  commanding  will  carry  into  effect  the  sentence  in 
the  case,  and  direct  the  dissolution  of  the  court  of  inquiry. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inapector-Ocneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  axb  Inspector  Uknekal's  Officb, 

No.  41.  J  Richmond,    AjJril  14,  1863. 

I.  At  a  general  court  martial  held  at  Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  October 
25th,  1862,  by  virtue  of  General  Order.s,  No.  3,  from  the  Head-qnarters 
of  the  Department  of  Mississippi  and  Louisiana,  of  Octuber  18,  1862, 
was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

First  Lieutenant  Mason  G.  Anderson,  Company  G,  31st  Mississip- 
pi volunteers,  on  the  following  charge — (the  specifications  are  here 
omitted  :) 

Charijv  :  Violation  of  the  77th  Article  of  War. 

II.   Finding  ami  Seufcnce  of  the   Court. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  :  Not  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  3d  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  the  court,  after  mature  deliberation,  sentence  the  said  Ma- 
son G.  Anderson,  First  Lieutenant  Company  G,  31st  Mississippi  vol- 
xmteers,  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President,  the  following 
order  has  been  made  thereon  : 

The  proceedings,  findings,  and  sentence  in  the  case  of  Lieutenant  Ma- 
son G.  Anderson  are  approved  and  confirmed  :  but  in  consideration  of 
his  good  character,  as  established  at  his  trial,  and  the  recommenda- 
tion of  a  portion  of  the  officers  of  his  company,  the  sentence  is  remit- 
ted, and  liieutcnant  Anderson  will  bo  restored  to  duty  with  his  com- 
pany. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Aiijulaiit  and  hmjiectnr-Geueral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oenerals  Office, 

No.  42.  )  RiCUMOND,  April  14.  1863. 

I.  At  the  military  court  of  the  Dep.artmcnt  of  Virginia  and  North 
Carolina, -appointed  under  Act  of  Congress  of  October  9th,  1863,  was 
arraigned  and  tried  : 

Major  Kirkwood  Otey,  Uth  regiment  Virginia  infantry,  on  the  fol- 
lowing charges.     (The  specifications  are  omitted.) 


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Charge  \st  :  Drunkenness  on  duty.  a 

Chart/e  2d :  Violation  of  the  77th  Article  of  War. 

11.  .Findinf/8  and  Svuteiice  of  the  Court. 

The  court  affirm  the  plea  of  the  said  Major  Kirkwood  Otcy,  11th  Vir- 
ginia infantrj',  to  the  first  charge,  and  speciScation  thereunder,  and 
find  him — 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  2d  Charge :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  2d  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him,  the  said  Major  Kirkwood  Otey,  11th 
Virginia  infantry,  to  he  cashiered,  and  dismissed  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President,  the  following 
order  has  been  made  thereon  : 

The  proceedings,  findings,  and  sentence  in  the  case  of  Major  Kirk- 
wood Otey,  11th  regiment  Virginia  infantry,  are  approved ;  but  in  con- 
sideration of  his  previous  good  character,  and  the  recommendation  of 
the  court  and  the  general  commanding,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  and 
Major  Otey  will  be  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, '^  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  i'i.  )  Richmond,  April  15,  1863. 


I.  At  the  military  court  of  the  Department  of  Virginia  and  North 
Carolina,  held  at  Petersburg,  Virginia,  March  LSth,  1863,  was  ar- 
raigned and  tried : 

First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  of  the  1st  regi- 
ment of  Virginia  infantry,  on  the  following  charges.  (The  specifica- 
tions are  omitted  in  this  order:) 

Charge  let :  Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War. 
Charge  2d  :  Conduct  prejudicial  to  good    order  and    military  disci- 
pline. 


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II.  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  having  maturely  considered  the  case,  find  the  accused, 
First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  1st  Virginia  in- 
fantry, as  follows  : 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  1st  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  1st  Charge:    Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered,  and  dismissed  thp 
service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Iir..The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  Inid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  bo  submitted  to  the  President,  the  following 
orders  are  made  thereon  : 

The  proceedings^  findings,  and  sentence  in  the  case  of  First  Lieu- 
tenant and  Adjutant  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  1st  Virginia  infantry,  are 
approved;  but  in  consideration  of  the  previous  good  character,  and 
the  recommendation  of  the  court  and  commanding  general,  the  sen- 
tence is  remitted,  and  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Stockton  will  bo  re- 
stored to  duty  with  his  regiment.  His  conduct  is  deemed  highly  dis- 
creditable; but  the  department  indulges  the  hope  that  this  exercise  of 
clemency  towards  him  will  exert  a  beneficial  influence  over  his  future 
course,  both  as  an  officer  and  citizen. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENER.\L  ORDERS,  j  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Ofpicb, 

No.  44.  f  Richmond,  April  16,  1863. 

The  following  Acts  having  been  duly  approved  by  the  President,  are 
published  for  the  infoi'mation  of  all  concerned  : 

AN  ACT  TO  PnoniBIT  THE  PITNISHMENT  OF  SOLDIURS  BY  WHIPPING. 

"  The  CongresH  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
court  martial  or  military  court  to  cause  any  soldier  in  the  service  of  the 
Confeder.ate  Stiites  to  be  punished  by  whipping,  or  the  infliction  of 
stripes  upon  his  person;  and  that  all  laws  and  customs  contravening 
the  provisious  of  this  act,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

"Sec.  2.  That  article  twenty  of  the  Articles  of  War  be  so  amended 


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as  to  read  as  follows  :  '  All  officers  and  soldiers  who  have  received  pay, 
or  have  been  duly  enlisted  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
shall  he  convicted  of  having  deserted  the  same,  shall  sufiFer  death,  or 
confinement  in  a  penitentiary,  with  or  withwit  hard  labor,  for  a  period 
not  less  than  one  year  or  more  than  five,  or  such  other  punishment,  not 
inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  as  the  court  martial  or 
uiilit>L.ry  court  may  determine."     [Approved  April  13,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  EXEMPT  CONTRACTORS  FOR  CARRYING  THE  MAILS  OP  THE 
CONFEDERATE  STATES  AND  THE  DRIVERS  OP  POST  COACHES  AND 
HACKS    FROM   MILITARY    SERVICE. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  contractors  for  carrying  the  mails  of  the  Confederate  States  shall 
be  exempt  from  the  performance  of  military  duty  in  the  armies  of  the 
Confederate  States,  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  during  the 
time  they  are  such  contractors:  provided,  that  no  more  than  one  con- 
tractor shall  be  exempt  on  any  one  route,  and  that  no  more  than  one 
member  of  any  firm  of  contractors  shall  be  exempt^  and  no  contractor 
on  any  route  of  less  than  ten  miles  in  length,  and  on  which  the 
mail  is  carried  on  horse,  shall  be  exempt  under  this  act;  and  if  any 
one  or  more  members  of  any  such  firm  be  exempt,  from  age  or  other 
cause,  from  the  performance  of  military  duty,  the  other  member  or 
members  of  such  firu^  shall  not  be  exempt  by  this  act  on  account  of 
being  mail  contractors:  and  provided  further,  that  no  person  to  whom 
a  contract  for  carrying  the  mails  may  be  transferred,  with  the  consent 
of  the  Postoflice  department,  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  shall  be 
exempt  from  military  service  on  that  account. 

"Sec.  2.  That  the  drivers  of  post  coaches  and  hacks  for  carrying 
the  mails,  on  all  routes  where  the  weight  of  the  mails  requires  that 
they  should  be  carried  in  coaches  or  hacks,  shall  be  exempt  from  military 
service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  from  and  after  the  pas- 
sage of  this  act,  so  long  as  they  continue  to  be  employed  as  such 
drivers:  provided  the  contractor  by  whom  any  such  driver  is  employed 
shall  take  and  subscribe  an  oath,  to  be  furnished  to  the  enrolling  officer, 
that  the  weight  of  the  mails  on  his  route  requires  the  use  of  coaches  or 
hacks  for  their  conveyance,  and  that  he  has  not  a  greater  number  of 
drivers  employed  in  his  service  than  are  indispensable  to  enable  him  to 
fulfil  his  contract  for  carrying  the  mails;  and  that  he  will  not,  while  a 
contractor,  employ  a  greater  number  of  drivers  than  may  be  indispen- 
sably necessary  for  that  purpose ;  and  that  he  will  give  notice  to  the 
enrolling  officer  when  any  such  driver  ceases  to  be  in  his  employment." 

[Approved  April  14,  1863.] 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutnnt  and  Inspector-General, 


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OKNERAL  ORDERS,  I  Adjutakt  and  IxspscTOR-OEirERAL's  Office, 

No.  45.  J  Richmond.  Jpril  18, 1863. 

T..The  issue  of  •whiskey  to  troops,  except  in  cases  of  extraordinary 
fatigue  and  exposure,  is  prohibited.  Commanding  officers  are  enjoined 
to  see  that  this  prohibition  is  enforced. 

II..  Paragraph  IV,  Gener.11  Orders,  No.  32,  April  M,  1862,  is  so 
modified  as  to  allow  only  a  two-horse  wagon  and  team  to  each  regiment 
in  the  field,  to  be  appropriated  to  the  transportation  of  hospital  sup- 
plies. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Intpertor-Oeneral. 


GENERAL  OKDERS,")  Adjut.^nt  and  lNsPECT0R-Gr.xEnAi.'3  Office, 

No.  40.  j  Richmond,  Jpril  20,  1803. 

I.. At  a  general  court  martial  held  in  the  City  of  Richmond,  Va., 
April  5,  1863,  pur.suaut  to  General  Orders,  No.  35,  Ile.ad-quarters  De- 
partment of  Henrico,  1862,  and  of  which  Colonel  James  L.  Henderson 
is  President,  was  arraigned  and  tried : 

Major  Elias  Griswold,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  following  charges  and 
specifications : 

Charge  Is^.  .Disobedience  of  lawful  orders. 

Specification — In  this:  that  the  said  Major  Elias  Griswold,  on  or 
about  the  second  day  of  January,  1863,  at  Richmond,  Va.,  did  give 
a  written  permit  to  one  James  E.  Lipscomb  to  bring  into  the  said  City 
of  Richmond  uinety-one  barrels  of  brand}',  in  violation  of  the  lawful 
command  of  his  superior  officer,  Brigadier-General  John  H.  Winder. 

O'lartje  2rf.. Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  niilitarj'^  dis- 
cipline. 

Specification — In  this;  that  the  said  Major  Elias  Griswold.  on  or 
about  the  second  day  of  January,  1863,  at  Richmond,  Va.,  did  give  a 
written  permit  to  one  James  E.  Lipscomb  to  bring  into  the  said  City 
of  Richmond  ninety-one  barrels  of  brandy,  after  the  publication  of 
General  Orders,  No.  41,  issued  from  the  Iload-quarters  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Henrico,  requiriug  innl  ull  lipplications  for  permits  to  bring 
intoxicating  liquors  into  Richmond  should  be  addressed  to  said  head- 
quarters.      -^ 


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I'^inding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  find  the 
accused  as  follows  : 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  the  court  do  therefore  sentence  the  said  Major  Elias  Griswold 
to  be  privatel}'  reprimanded  by  the  commander  of  the  Department  of 
Henrico. 

The  court  is  thus  lenient  in  its  sentence,  because  it  is  satisfied  that, 
although  there  was  a  technical  violation  of  orders  by  the  accused,  it 
arose  from  inadvertence,  and  was  not  accompanied  with  any  evil  intent 
or  improper  purpose. 

II.. The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him  duly  con- 
sidered, are  approved.  Major  Griswold  will  therefore  be  released 
from  arrest  and  restored  to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPEK, 
A'ljutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  •17.  J  Richmond,  April  21, 1863. 

The  following  Regulations  respecting  the  rights  of  "Partisan  Rang- 
ers," uuder  the  Act  of  April  21,  1862,  are  published  for  the  informa- 
tion of  all  concerned  : 

1.  The  Act  of  April  21,  1862,  provides,  that  for  any  arms  and  mu- 
nitions of  war  captured  from  the  enemy  by  partisan  rangers,  arid  de- 
livered up  at  such  place  as  may  be  designated  by  the  commanding 
general,  the  rangers  shall  be  paid  their  full  value  in  such  manner  as 
the  Secretary  of  War  may  prescribe. 

2.  The  terms  "arms  and  munitions  of  war"  will  include  all  small  arms 
and  artillery,  ammunftion,  infantry  accoutrements,  and  cavalrj^  equip- 
ments, and  also  cavalry  and  .irtill'^vy  horses.  The  animals  referred  to 
will  be  appraised  by  competent  oflieers,  under  the  orders  of  the  com- 
manding   general,  and    will    be    paid  for   when  delivered  up,  by  any 


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quartermaster,  who  will  take  receipts  from  the  parties  entitled  to  re- 
ceive compensation,  and  afterward  account  for  the  property,  as  in  the 
case  of  an  ordinary  purchase.  The  rest  of  the  property  specified  will 
bo  paid  for  in  accordance  with  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  20, 
current  series. 

Bj'  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENKRAI.  ORDEl{S."j  Adjutant  and  Inspector -Gkneral's  Office, 

No.  48.  J  RlcnMOfJD,  April  22,  1863. 

I.  .The  following  Act  of  Congrcs.s  having  been  duly  njiproved  by  the 
President,  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
any  oflicer,  non-commissioned  officer,  or  private,  now  in  the  military  ser- 
vice of  the  Confederate  States,  who  has  been  elected  or  appointed  since 
entering,  said  service,  or  who  may  hereafter  be  elected  or  appointed,  a 
Senator  or  Representative  in  Congress,  or  in  any  State  Legislature,  or 
Judge  of  the  Circuit,  District  or  Superior  courts  of  law  or  equity  in 
any  state  of  the  Confederacy,  District  Attorney,  Clerk  of  any  court  of 
record,  Sheriff,  Ordinary,  Judge  of  any  court  of  probate,  Collector  of 
state  taxes  (not  to  exceed  one  for  each  county),  or  Parish  Recorder, 
upon  furnishing  the  Secretary  of  War  with  evidence  of  such  election  or 
appointment,  if  an  officer,  his  resignation  shall  be  promptly  accepted; 
and  if  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  private,  he  shall  be  honorably  dis- 
charged by  the  Secretary  of  War."     [Approved  April  2,  18G3.] 

II.  .The  evidence  required  as  to  the  elections  referred  to,  will  be  a 
certificate  of  the  fact  from  the  clerk  of  the  county  or  parish,  or  other 
oflficer  whose  duty  it  may  be  to  certify  to  such  elections,  under  the  laws 
of  the  state,  in  manner  and  form  required  by  said  laws.  This  certifi- 
cate must  accompany  the  resignation,  through  the  usual  channel  of 
communication,  as  prescribed  in  General  Orders,  No.  3,  and  the  Army 
Regulations. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OHDERS,^  Adjutant  and  Inspector  GENERAt'B  Office, 

No.  49.  J  Richmond,  April  23,  1863. 

I.. The  following  regulation  is  mnde,  and  will  hereafter  be  observed 
in  the  army,  relative  to  the  clothing  of  deceased  soldiers  : 

Upon  the  death  of  any  soldier,  the  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  hospital 
at  which  it  occurs  will  cause  an  inventory  to  be  made  of  all  his  mili- 
tary clothing,  and  will  make  a  fair  appraisement  of  each  article  there- 
of. It  will  then  be  turned  over  to  the  nearest  quartermaster  for  re- 
issue. The  original  appraisement  shall  be  forwarded  to  the  Second 
Auditor,  to  secure  its  value  to  the  personal  representatives  of  the  de- 
ceased soldier,  and  a  copy  thereof  be  furnished  to  the  receiving  quar- 
termaster, who  will  issue  the  clothing  at  the  appraised  prices,  and  not  at 
those  sot  forth  in  General  Orders,  No.  100,  last  series. 

II.  .Engineer  officers,  while  employed  on  reconnoissances,  surveys,  or 
other  duty,  under  special  orders,  causing  temporary  absence  from  their 
posts  or  from  the  head-quarters  of  the  armies,  corps,  divisions,  or 
brigades  with  which  they  may  be  serving,  shall  be  allowed  their  per- 
sonal expenses,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  appropriation  for  engineer  service, 
in  lieu  of  all  allowances  for  fuel,  quarters,  and  forage  for  the  same 
period.  Each  account  must  be  certified  to  by  the  party  receiving  the 
payment,  and  approved  by  the  officer  under  whose  orders  he  acts. 

Ill*  -AH  supplies  of  contractors  engaged  exclusively  in  iron  or  muni- 
tions of  war  for  the  government  are  exemjited  from  impressment, 
either  at  the  establishment  or  at  the  place  of  purchase.  Satisfactory 
evidence,  by  affidavit  or  otherwise,  may  be  required  to  establish  owner- 
ship. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  50.  )  Richmond,  April  25, 1863. 

I.. At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Grenada,  Mississippi, 
by  virtue  of  Special  Orders  of  January  3,  1863,  from  Head-quarters 
Army  of  the  Mississippi,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Lieutenant  J.  W.  Gibson,  Company  D,  22d  regiment  Mississippi 
volunteers,  on  the  following  charges.  (The  specifieations  are  omitted 
in  this  order.) 


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Charge  lot:  Violation  of  the  83d  Article  of  War. 
Charf/e  2d  ;  Violation  of  the  7th  Article  of  War. 
Charge  3d  :  Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War. 

//. — Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  find  the 
accused,  Lieutenant  J.  W.  Gibs'in,  Company  D,  22d  regiment  Missis- 
sippi volunteers,  as  follows : 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  3d  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  dismi.ssed  the  service. 

III.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President,  the  following 
decision  has  been  pronounced  thereon: 

The  finding  and  sentence  arc  approved;  but  in  consideration  of  the 
recommendation  of  the  court,  and  the  good  behavior  of    Lieutenant 
Gibson  while  a  soldier  in  the  ranks,  the  penalty  of  dismissal  from  the 
service  is  omitted,  and  he  will  be  publicly  reprimanded. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inxpictor-Ociieral. 


GKXERAL  ORDERS."!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gexeral's  Ofpiok, 

No-  51.  I  Richmond,  Ajiril  29,  1863. 

To  simplify  the  manner  of  effecting  discharges  and  furloughs,  the 
following  Orders,  condensed  from  those  heretofore  issued,  are  published 
for  the  government  of  the  army : 

I.  .When  a  soldier,  preseH^  with  his  regiment  or  company,  shall  be  unfit 
for  military  service  in  consequence  of  wounds,  disease,  or  infirmity,  his 
captain  shall  forward  to  the  commander  of  the  department  or  of  the 
army  in  the  field,  through  the  regimental,  brigade,  and  other  command- 
ers, a  statement  of  the  case,  with  "certificates  of  disability."  that  he 
is  totally  unfit  for  service,  signed  by  the  surgeon  of  the  battalion  or 
regiment,  according  to  the  form  prescribed  in  the  Medical  Regulations. 
If  the  recommendation  for  the  discharge  of  the  invalid  be  approved  by 


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the  department  or  army  commander,  he  will  endorse  the  order  for  the 
discharge  upon  the  "certificate  of  disability,"  which  will  be  sent  back, 
to  be  signed  by  the  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment  or  battalion  to 
which  the  invalid  soldier's  company  belongs,  and  afterward  forwarded 
by  the  captain  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General.  The  "  dis- 
charge" will  be  signed  by  the  regimental  or  battalion  commander,  and 
"final  stateAients"  by  the  company  commander. 

II.. When  the  soldier,  ^^resejiJ  luifh  his  comma)id,  is  certified  to  bo 
laboring  under  temporary  disability,  which  requires  his  removal  or  a 
change  of  climate,  the  commander  of  the  department  or  of  the  army  in 
the  field  may  grant  a  furlough  of  thirty  days,  which,  in  extreme  cases, 
may  be  extended  by  him  to  sixty  days. 

III.. When  a  soldier  is  absent  from  his  company,  battalion,  or  regi- 
ment, in  hospital,  and  is  unfit  for  military  service,  for  reasons  set  forth 
ill  paragraph  I  of  these  Orders,  the  commandant  of  the  post,  upon  the 
recommendation  of  an  examining  board,  to  consist  of  two  or  more 
medical  officers,  established  by  the  commandant  of  the  post  (or  if  there 
be  no  such  board,  the  senior  surgeon  of  the  hospital),  may  grant  him  a 
furlough  for  thirty  days,  subject  to  extension  by  the  commander  of  the 
department  or  army  in  the  field,  when  he  will  make  out  "  certificates  of 
disability,"  and  send  them  to  the  commander  of  the  company,  to  be 
forwarded  .by  him  as  prescribed  in  the  preceding  paragraph.  But 
when  access  to  commanders  is  dijficiilt  and  attended  with  c/reat  delay, 
and  the  case  is  urgent,  the  certificates  of  disability  may  be  forwarded  by 
the  surgeon  directlj'  to  the  Surgeon-General,  for  his  approval ;  which 
being  given,  the  discharge  will  be  authorized  from  the  Adjutant  and 
Inspector-General's  ofhcc,  and  the  surgeon  will  make  out  "  final  state- 
ments." 

IV..  When  a  soldier,  absent  from  his  coinmand,  certified  by  the  sur- 
geon or  assistant  surgeon  of  the  army  to  be  unfit  for  present  duty  and 
that  his  health  requires  bis  removal  or  change  of  climate,  the  com- 
mander of  the  post,  if  access  to  the  commander  of  the  department  or 
of  the  army  in  the  field  be  difficult,  may  grant  the  soldier  a  furlough, 
not  to  exceed  thirty  daj's,  and  submit  the  application  for  a  longer 
period,  if  necessary,  to  the  general  to  whoso  command  the  soldier  may 
belong;  or,  without  granting  the  furlough,  he  may  refer  it  to  the  dis- 
cretion of  such  commanding  general. 

v.. In  every  case  where  a  soldier  has  been  discharged  under  para- 
graph III,  by  orders  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspcetor-Geuerars  olfiec, 
and  the  "  descriptive  list"  and  "final  statements  "  can  not  be  had,  he 
will   be   mustered  for  payment  upon  hospital  rolls  by  the  surgeon  in 


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charge,  upon  his  aflldavit,  taken  before  one  or  more  witnesses,  that  he 
has  not  received  pay  for  the  period  for  which  he  claims  it  to  bo  due, 
and  that  he  is  not  indebted  to  the  Confederate  States  government 
beyond  the  amount  stated  by  him. 

VI.  .Due  notices  of  all  furloughs  and  discharges  granted  under  these 
orders  will  bo  forwarded,  through  department  and  army  commanders, 
to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspoctur-General,  and  to  the  immediate  com- 
mander of  the  company  to  which  the  soldier  belongs. 

VII.. All  orders  heretofore  issued  relating  to  furloughs  and  dis- 
charges for  the  causes  aforesaid,  are  hereby  revoked. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjulaut  and  Ini<2>cctor-G'eneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  ax»  Tnspector-General's  Office, 

No.  52.  )  KiCHMOND,  April  30,  1863. 


I.  .At  the  military  court  appointed  under  Act  of  Congress,  approved 
October  9,  1862,  for  the  army  corps  of  Major-Gcneral  Samuel  Jones, 
and  held  at  Newborn,  Pulaski  county,  Va.,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Private  Granville  McCatchen,  Company  C,  22d  Virginia  volunteers, 
on  the  following  charge  and  spucificatiou  : 

Clnirgc  :  Violation  of  the  20th  Article  of  War. 

Specification  :  That  the  said  Private  Granville  S.  McCutchen,  Com- 
pany C,  22d  Virginia  volunteers,  on  or  about  the  seventh  day  of  May, 
1862,  on  the  march  from  White  Sulphur  Springs,  in  Greenbrier,  to 
Jackson's  river  depot,  in  Alleghany  county.  Va.,  did  desert  his  com- 
pany and  regiment,  and  remained  absent  therefrom  until  about  the 
eighth  day  of  January  next  ensuing,  when  he  was  arrested  and  brought 
back  to  his  company  and  regiment. 

//. — Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

Having  maturely  weighed  and  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  the 
court  find  the  accused  as  follows  : 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  shot  to  death  by  musketry,  at 
Bucb  time  and  place  as  tbo  commanding  general  may  appoint. 

E 


50 

III.. The  ijroceedings,  finding,  and  sciitcnco  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the 
President,  the  following  orders  are  made  thereon  : 

To  justify  a  general  charge  of  violation  of  an  Article  of  "War,  some 
offence  must  be  defined  and  prohibited,  or  some  duty  prescribed  in  the 
article.  But  the  20th  Article  of  War  merely  d.nounces  the  punishment 
to  he  injiicted  for  desertion,  and  a  charge  of  i"s  violation  is  obviously 
too  indefinite  and  uncertain  to  justify- action.  The  defect  is  fatal,  and 
vitiates  the  whole  proceedings,  which  arc  tb  refore  set  aside. 

Private  McCutchen  will  be  released  from  confinement  and  returned 
to  duty.  It  is  hoped  that  his  accidental  escape  from  punishment  will 
have  a  good  effect,  and  induce  him  heseafter  to  conduct  himself  as  be- 
comes a  soldier  in  the  defence  of  his  country. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENEEAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  53.  j  Richmond,  May  1, 1863. 


The  following  Act  of  Congress,  approved  by  the  President,  is  pub- 
lished for  the  information  and  direction  of  all  concerned,  in  connection 
with  the  act  relating  to  impressments,  heretofore  announced  in  Gene- 
ral Orders,  No.  37,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 
April  6,  1863,  and  as  supplementary  to  said  act : 

AN    ACT    TO    A3IEND    AN    ACT    ENTITLED    AN  ACT    TO    HEGTJLATE    IMPRESS- 
MENTS   BY    OrnOBRS    OF    THE    ARMY. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  that 
in  all  cases  of  appraisement  provided  for  in  said  act,  the  officer  im- 
pressing the  property  shall,  if  he  believe  the  appraisement  to  be  fair 
and  just,  endorse  upon  it  his  approval ;  if  not,  he  shall  endorse  upon  it 
his  reasons  for  refusing,  and  deliver  the  same,  with  a  receipt  for  the 
property  impressed,  to  the  owner,  his  agent,  or  attorney,  and,  as  soon 
as  practicable,  forward  a  copy  of  the  receipt  and  appraisement,  and 
his  endorsement  thereon,  to  the  board  of  appraisers  appointed  by  the 
President  and  Governor  of  the  State,  who  shall  revise  the  same  and 
make  final  valuation,  so  as  to  give  just  compensation  for  the  property 
taken ;  which  valuation  shall  be  paid  by  the  proper  department  for 
use  of  which  the  property  was  taken,  on  the  certificate  of  the  ap- 
praisers, as  provided  in  the  act  of  which  this  is  amendatory."  [Ap- 
proved April  27,  1863.] 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


51 

GENERAL  OKDERS."|  Adjutant  and  Inspectoe-Oemeral's  Offic* 

No.  54.  j  Richmond,  May  2,  1863. 

I.. At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Shelbyville,  Tennessee, 
by  virtue  of  .Special  Orders,  No,  54,  of  March  1,  186.S,  Head-quarters 
Army  of  Tennessee,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Assistant  Surgeon  Edward    Cross,    .Tlst  regiment   Arkansas    volun- 
teers, on  the  following  charge  and  specification  : 
Charge  :  Absence  without  leave. 

Specification  :  In  this,  that  the  said  Assistant  Surgeon  Edward  Cross, 
31st  Arkansas  regiment,  did  leave  his  command,  without  proper  au- 
thority, on  or  about  the  1st  of  February,  18C3,  and  remain  absent  until 
the  26th  of  February,  1863.  All  this  at  or  near  Shelbyville,  Tennessee, 
in  and  between  the  1st  of  February  and  the  26th  of  February,  1863. 

11.  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  the   Conrt. 

The  court  having  affirmed  the  plea  of  "'/uilty"  to  the  charge  and 
specification  by  the  accused,  do  sentence  him  to  be  dimnissed  from  the 
service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

III.. The  {iroceeditigs,  finding,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the 
President,  are  by  him  approved  ;  but,  in  consideration  of  the  previous 
good  conduct  and  efficient  services  of  Assistant  Surgeon  Cross,  the 
sentence  against  him  is  commuted  to  forfeiture  of  all  pay  during  the 
period  of  his  absence  from  his  post  of  service  :  and  he  will  according- 
ly be  released  from  arrest  and  returned  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPEK, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  \  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  55.  S  RicnMOND,  May  5,  1863. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  by  virtue  of  General  Orders, 
No.  128,  of  November  25,  1862,  from  Head-quarters  Early's  brigade, 
was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Captain  John  W.  Bell,  Quartermaster  49th  regiment  Virginia  vol- 
unteers, on  the  following  charges.  (The  Specifications,  on  account  of 
their  number  and  length,  are  omitted  in  this  order.  ) 

Charge  1st ;  Absence  without  leave. 


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Chai-ye  2(7  ;  Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military  dis- 
cipline. 

Clnn-yc  3rf  ;   Conduct  unbecoming  an  ollicer  and  gentleman. 

11.  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  the   Court.  _ 

The  court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  find 
the  accused,  Captain  John  W.  Bell,  49th  regiment  Virginia  volunteers, 
as  follows : 

Of  1st  Specification  of  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  2d  Specification  :  That  he  was  absent  without  leave  at  the  time 
specified,  but  that  he  was  physically  unable  to  follow  his  regiment  on 
its  raarch,  and  therefore  without  guilt. 

Of  the  1st  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge':   Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  3d  Charge  :  Guilty,  to  the  extent  of  address- 
ing a  letter  to  the  Quartermaster-General  C.  S.  A.,  couched  in  words 
and  figures   set  forth  in  the  Specification,  and  not  guilty  of  the  residue. 

Of  the  3d  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  4th  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  4th  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  the  court  do  therefore  sentence  the  said  Captain  J.  W.  Bell, 
Quartermaster  49th  regiment  Virginia  volunteers,  to  be  cashiered. 

III.. The  proceedings  in  this  case  having  been  submitted  to  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  orders  of  the  President,  the  following  deci- 
sion has  been  made  thereon  : 

"  Upon  consideration  of  the  testimony  to  the  character  of  Captain 
Bell,  as  an  efiBcient  and  capable  officer,  of  his  zeal  in  the  service,  and 
also  the  recommendation  of  the  court,  the  department,  though  entirely 
concurring  with  the  commanding  general  in  his  estimate  of  the  gravi- 
ty of  the  offence  committed,  has  determined  to  remit  the  sentence  of 
the  court  martial  in  his  case.  He  will  therefore  be  released  from  ar- 
rest, and  returned  to  duty." 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "j  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qenbkal's  OFnc«, 

No.  66.  J  Richmond,  May  7, 1863. 

I.  •  At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  camp  of  Ponder's  brigade, 


by  virtue  of  (>cneral  Oriler?,  No.  2-'?,  February  19,  1863,  from  the 
Head-quarters  Department  of  Xorthcrn  Virginia,  was  arraigned  and 
tried  : 

Sjcond  Lieutenant  J.  K.  Martin,  22d  N  C.  volunteers,  on  the  foU'iw- 
ing  charges.     (The  specifications  are  omitted  in  this  order.) 

Charge  !.»<.•  Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War. 
Clinnje  Id  u  Violation  of  the  83d  Article  of  War. 

1\.  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

Tlie  ci.urt  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  find  the 
accused,  Second  Lieutenant  J.  K.  Martin,  22d  N.  C.  volunteers,  as  fol- 
lows : 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 
Of  the  1st  Charge:   Not  Guilty. 
Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 

And  sentence  him  to  be  dismissed  the  service. 

III.. The  proceedings,  findings,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the 
President,  are  approved  ;  but,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  court, 
the  sentence  is  remitted.  Lieutenant  Martin  will  therefore  be  relieved 
from  arrost.  and  restored  to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Innpevtnr-Gencral. 


OENERAL  OKDERS,"!  Adjutant  anb  Inspkctor-General's  Owicb, 

No.  67.  j  KiCHMOND,  May  8.  1863. 


The  operation  of  paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  28,  March  12, 
1863,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Olfice,  is  so  far  modi- 
fied for  the  present  as  to  allow  payment  of  ofiicers  in  hospitals,  without 
the  certificate  of  last  payment,  as  required  in  said  Orders,  No.  2S ;  but 
the  quartermaster  making  such  payment  will  furnish  certificates  as 
heretofore  required  of  hira. 

«  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genertff. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  ADjDTiNT  and  Inspector-General's  Office. 

No.  58.  J  R1CH.MOND,  May  11,  1863. 

I.  .The  following  Notice,  relative  to  E.xchanged  Prisoners,  is  publish- 
ed for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

Exchange  Notice,  No.  5. 

Bichmnnd,  May  9,  186.3. 

Tho  following  Cnu  federate  officers  and  men  liave  been  duly  exchanged,  and  aro 
hereby  so  declared : 

1.  All  officers  and  men  who  liave  been  delivered  at  City  Point  at  any  time  pre- 
vious to  May  6th,  18G3. 

2.  All  officers  captured  at  any  place  before  the  1st  of  April,  1803,  who  have  been 
released  on  parole. 

3.  AH  men  captured  in  North  Carolina  or  Virginia  before  tlie  1st  of  Marcb,  1863, 
who  have  been  released  on  parole. 

4.  Tlie  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  by.  Gen,  S.  P.  Carter,  in  his  expedi- 
tion to  East  Tennessee  in  December  last. 

5.  T'ne  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Stewart  at 
yau  Buren,  Arkansas,  January  25th,  1SG3;  by  Colonel  Dickej',  in  December,  1862, 
in  his  march  to  the  Mobile  and  Ohio  railroad;  and  by  Captain  Cameron,  at  Corinth, 
Mississippi,  in.  December,  1862. 

6.  The  officers  and  men  paroled  at  Oxford,  Mississippi,  on  tho  23d  of  December, 
1862;  at  Des  Arc,  Arkansas,  on  the  17tii  of  January,  1863;  and  at  Baton  Rouge, 
Louisiana,  on  the  23d  February,  1863. 

7.  All  persons  who  have  been  captured  on  the  sea  or  tho  waters  leading  to  the 
same,  or  upon  the  sea-coast  of  tho  Confederate  or  United  States,  at  any  time  previ- 
ous to  December  10,  1862. 

8.  All  civilians  who  have  been  arrested  at  any  time  before  the  6th  of  May,  1863, 
and  released  on  parole,  are  discharged  from  any  and  every  obligation  contained  in 
said  parole.  If  any  such  person  has  talven  any  oath  of  allegiance  to  tlie  United 
States,  or  given  any  bond,  or  if  his  release  was  accompanied  with  any  other  condi- 
tion, he  is  discharged  from  the  same. 

9.  If  any  persons  embraced  in  any  of  the  foregoing  sections,  or  in  any  .section  of 
any  previous  Exchange  Notice,  wherein  they  are  declared  exchanged,  are  in  any 
Federal  prison,  they  are  to  be  immediatclj'  released  and  delivered  to  tJie  Confede- 
rate authorities. 

IIOBEUTOULD. 

Af/ent  of  Exchange. 

II.  .All  persons,  whether  citizens  or  soldiers,  are  expressly  prohibited 
from  using  or  in  any  manner  interfering  with  fuel  or  wood  cut  and  de- 
livered t"or  the  Mse  of  railroads  or  railroad  companies.  It  is  of  the  first 
importance  that  this  order  should  be  observed,  and  it  will  be  strictlj' 
obeyed  and  enforced  by  the  army. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
AJjnlaiiU  and  T)is»ecti>r-Geiter:if. 


OiiNEUAL  ORDKKS.  )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  OFFrcE, 

No.  50.  )  Richmond.  May  12.  1863. 

I.  .The  attention  of  regimental  commanders  throughout  the  army  is 
called  to  the  requirements  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  69,  of 
1862,  which  makes  it  the  duty  of  adjutants  to  incjuire  into  and  report 
to  this  office  all  cases  of  slaves  serving  with  their  respective  regiment.* 
without  written  authority  from  their  masters.  It  is  especially  required 
of  all  regimental  commanders  to  enforce  a  due  observance  of  said 
order,  which  is  hereby  extended  to  include  commanders  of  posts  and 
senior  surgeons  of  hospitals,  who  will  make  similar  reports,  so  far  as 
they  relate  to  their  respective  commands,  to  these  required  from  adju- 
tants of  regiments. 

II.  .It  will  be  the  duty  of  a  surgeon  in  charge  of  a  hospital  to  make 
a  separate  provi.sion  return  for  all  the  persons  attached  to  the  hospital 
who  may  be  entitled  to  rations,  except  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers, 
and  the  issuing  commissary  will  issue  to  said  persons  the  same  rations 
that  are  issued  to  soldiers  in  the  field.  These  rations  will  not  be  com- 
muted, if  the  commissary  can  issue  in  kind.  If  he  can  not  issue  in 
kind,  the  ration  may  be  commuted,  at  sixty  cents  per  ration,  on  the 
certificate  of  the  surgeon  as  to  the  dates  and  facts. 

Separate  and  distinct  provision  returns  will  be  made  for  the  sick  and 
wounded  soldiers  in  the  hospital,  according  to  the  form  hereunto  an- 
nexed, marked  A.  'No  portion  of  the  subsistence  stores  drawn  for  the 
sick  and  wounded  will  be  otherwise  appropriated. 

The  attention  of  the  medical  directors  and  inspectors  is  particularly 
directed  to  this  prohibition. 

III.. So  much  of  paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  24,  of  1862,  as 
requires  ordnance  sergeants  to  make  returns  of  surplus  stores  with  regi- 
ments to  the  Ordnance  bureau,  is  revoked.  All  the  returns  required 
by  the  Regulations,  of  ordnance  stores  in  the  possession  of  regiments 
or  battalions,  other  than  artillery,  will  be  made  by  commanding  officers 
of  the  same. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


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UK.XKKAIi  OKDEKS.'J  Ai'JITanx  an:>  l.vtiPECTOK-liEM.RAi.'s  Office, 

No.  60.  J  UicuMOND.  Hay  13. 1863. 

1.  .The  exigencies  of  the  service  requiring  a  large  number  of  artil- 
lery horses,  all  public  horses  suitable  for  that  service,  emploj'cd  in 
transportation  or  otherwise  with  armies  in  the  field,  will  be  turned  over 
to  the  chief  quartermasters  of  said  armies,  and  will  supplj'  their  places 
where  necessary  with  mules.  The  chief  quartermasters  of  armies  are 
charged  with  the  execution  of  this  order,  under  the  direction  of  the 
commanding  generals. 

II.. At  posts  or  depots  other  than  those  immediately  belonging  to 
armies  in  the  licld,  all  public  horses  suited  for  artillery  will  be  collect- 
ed, under  the  orders  of  Major  A.  H.  Cole,  Inspector-General  Field 
Transportation,  for  the  purpose  named  above,  and  mules  substituted 
where  necessary. 

By  order.  . 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjittntit  and  Inspector- General, 


OKNKU.\L  ORDKKS.")  Ahjotant  and  Tnspectoii.Genbral'8  Officb, 

X,i.  61.  j  lilCIlMOMD,  i/iry  15,  18C3. 

I.. Farmers  upon  whose  premises  horses  and  mules  have  been  or 
may  hereafter  be  left  by  the  enemy,  arc  admonisbed  to  pursue  the  re- 
quirements of  the  laws  of  their  respective  states  respecting  estrays,  so 
far  as  to  have  the  same  properl3'  valued,  and  the  valuation  thereof 
duly  recorded ;  and  where  it  is  not  apparent  that  such  property  was 
the  property  of  the  United  States  government,  to  have  advertisement 
thereof  made  as  required  by  Jaw. 

II.  .Upon  compliance  with  Iheabove  admonition,  the  government  will 
not  assert  any  adverse  claim  to  such  horses  and  mules,  unless  they  shall 
exceed  in  value  the  property  whereof  the  citizens  having  possession 
may  have  been  desjioiled  by  the  enemy,  and  then  only  to  the  extent  of 
such  excess  in  value. 

III.. All  officers  of  the  army  will  respect  the  rights  of  citizens,  as 
defined  and  conceded  in  iho  foregoing  sections. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjttt'iiit  nnd  luijicctor-Ociifrnl. 


58 

GENERAL  OUPEIiS  ")  Apjutant  and  I\spECTon-OK\En,a's  OFncE, 

No.  62.  j  Richmond,  May  16,  1863. 

I.  .In  accordance  with  an  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  bet- 
ter provide  for  the  sick  and  wounded  of  the  army  in  hospitals,  ap- 
proved May  1st,  1863,  the  following  modificatious  in  General  Orders, 
No.  95,  last  series,  from  this  office,  are  published  : 

The  commuted  value  of  rations  for  sick  and  disabled  soldiers  in  hos- 
pitals (field  or  general)  will,  until  further  orders,  bo  one  dollar  and 
twcnty-tivo  cents. 

IE.. Hospital  laundres.ses  will  be  paid  twenty-five  dollars  per  month, 
and  allowed  rations  and  quarters. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspkctor-General's  Office, 

No.  63.  J  Richmond,  3fay  18,  1863. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  bj'  (leneral  Orders,  No.  133, 
of  November  7,  1862,  from  Head-quarters  Department  of  Northern 
Virginia,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

First  Lieutenant   Robert  W.  Sanders,    8th  Alabama   volunteers,  on 
the  following  charges.     (The  specifications  are  omitted.) 
Charge  lut :   Cowardice. 
Charge  2d  :  Drunkenness. 

W,  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

After  due  deliberation,  the  court  find  the  .accused.  Lieutenant  Robert 
W.  Sanders,  8th  Alabama  regiment,  as  follows  : 

Specification  Ist,  Charge  1st:  Not  Guilty. 
Specification  2d,  Charge  2d  :  Not  Guilty. 
Of  the  1st  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge  :  Guilty,  except  the  words  "with- 
out provocation." 

or  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  the  court  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

III.. The  proceedings,  (Indiug,  and  sentence  in  tho  foregoing  case 
have  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  bo  laid  before  the 
President,  and  the  following  orders  on  the  case  are  now  made  : 


Proceedings,  fin<]ing,  and  sentence  approved  ;  buL  it  appearing  that 
the  members  of  the  court  recommend  a  pardon,  that  the  regimental 
and  otlicr  oflieers  of  Lieutenant  Sanders  concur  in  the  recommenda- 
tion, and  that  material  witnesses  on  the  trial  against  him  have  be- 
come infamous  by  desertion — and  in  one  pnse  by  desertion  to  the 
enemy — the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Lieutenant  Sanders  will  be  re- 
stored to  duty  with  his  company. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjtitaiil  aiul  hispector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Ahjutast  and  Inspector-General's  Office. 

No.  04.  j  RiCHMOXP,  May  19,  1SC3. 

I.. At  a  court  of  inquiry  convened  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  by  vir- 
tue of  Special  Orders,  No.  102,  of  April  27,  18G3.  from  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-tieneral's  oflScc.  "  To  examine  and  inquire  into  certain 
allegations,  sot  forth  on  papers  to  be  laid  before  the  court,  against 
Colonel  Robert  H.  Chilton,  Assistant  Adjutant-General  C.  S.  Army, 
which  allegations  he  conceives  impugn  his  character  as  an  olRcer," 
and  also  to  "report  the  facts  of  the  case,  and  their  opinion  thereon," 
the  following  report  of  facts  was  made;  and  having  been  submitted  by 
the  court,  with  their  opinion  thereon,  as  required,  the  same  are  ap- 
proved by  the  Secretary  of  War.  and  are  now  ])ublished  for  the  in- 
formation of  all  concerned  : 

11.  .  Fi'ndin;/   (ind  Opinion   of   the    Court. 

On  a  careful  examination  of  the  testimonj'  adduced  in  this  case,  the 
court  find  the  following  fac'ts  : 

1st.  .That  on  the  11th  .July,  1802,  Colonel  R.  11.  Chilton,  then  on  the 
staff  of  General  Lee,  commanding  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  .as 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General,  did  write  a  letter  to  General  Cooper, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  of  the  Army,  impeaching  the  profes- 
sion.al  .ibility  of  Major-General  Magruder,  denying  his  fitness  for  re- 
sponsible command,  and  urging  a  revocation  of  the  order  assigning 
him  to  the  Trans-Mississipj)i  Department. 

2d.. That  Colonel  Chillon  incurporiited  in  that  letter  an  offer  to 
make  good  his  allegations  before  a  court  of  inquiry. 

3d.. That  the  letter  was  communicated  to  the  President  by  General 
Cooper. 


4th.. That  being  apprised  of  this  disposition  of  the  letter,  Colonel 
Chilton  immediately  furnished  Major-General  Magruder  a  copy  of  so 
much  of  it  as  contained  his  (Colonel  Chilton's)  strictures  on  Major- 
General  Magruder's  official  conduct  and  capacity. 

Opinion. 
The  court  is  of  opinion  that,  in  his  communication  to  General  Cooper, 
dated  July  11,  1862,  Colonel  Chilton  was.  actuated  by  no  unworthy 
motive,  but  by  a  laudable  regard  for  the  public  interest,  and  that  his 
conduct  in  the  transaction  was  such  a«  became  an  honoral)le  and  pa- 
triotic officer. 

III.. The  court  of  inquiry  in  the  case  of  Colonel  R.  H.  Chilton,  C. 
S.  Army,  is  hereby  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


May  21,  1863. 
GENERAL  ORDERS.] 

No.  65.  f 

I.. The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein, 
adopted  by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  States  of 
Virginia  and  Georgia  respectively,  are  announced  for  the  information 
of  all  concerned;  and  the  special  attention  of  ollicers  and  agents  of  the 
government  is  directed  thereto  : 

II..  VIRGINIA. 

[Cojjl/.] SCHEDI'LR   A. 

Richmond,  May  IS,  186.3. 
Hon.  Jaa.  A.  Scdilon,  Secretary  •>/  War  : 

Sir:  The  commissioners  appointed  under  section  5th,  of  the  bill  re- 
centlj'  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress,  regulating  impressments, 
constitute  a  board  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  fix  upon  the  prices  to  be 
paid  by  the  govcruraeiit  for  all  property  impressed  or  taken  for  the  pub- 
lic use  aforesaid,  so  as  to  afford  .i.ust  compensation  to  the  owners  there- 
of. Said  commissioners  shall  agree  upon  and  publish  a  schedule  of 
prices  every  two  months,  or  oftener,  if  they  shall  deem  it  proper. 

In  accordance  with  the  foregoing  requisition,  we  respectfully  lay  be- 
fore you  the  following  scho<Uile  of  prices  for  the  ensuing  two  months. 
Owing  to  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  satisfactory  information  as  to  pork, 


61 

beef,  and  matcridls  <>f  clothincr,  etc.,  we  liave  postponed  their  appraise- 
ment till  our  next  assessment.  It  is  proper  to  adil  th.at  Mr.  W.  B.  Har- 
rison was  invited  to  act  as  thir^l  commissioncT,  and  that  this  appraise- 
ment received  the  unanimous  approval  of  the  commissioners. 

The  following  arc  the  muxiiiium  jirices  to  be  paid  for  the  articles  ap- 
praised, at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when  impressed  else- 
where, the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere,  less  the  cost  of  trans- 
portation to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to  which  the  article  would 
go  ordinarily  for  sale  fr.im  that  neiirhborhood,  or  less  the  cost  of  trans- 
portation to  the  point  at  which  the  government  needs  the  article,  and 
wishes  it  to  be  sent  :  proiiilni,  that  in  no  case  the  amount  deducted  for 
transportation  as  above  shall  exceed  25  cents  per  bushel  for  grain,  and 
25  cents  per  cwt.  for  long  forage,  flour,  bacon,  iron,  etc.  In  addition  to 
tbo  established  price  of  transportation,  tho  government  to  pay  all  legal 
tolls,  and  where  farmers  can  not  procure  nails  for  baling  forage,  gov- 
ernment to  furnish  the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  deducted  from  the 
established  price  of  baling: 


6ti 


ARTICLE. 

QUALITY. 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

1    Wheat, 

Prime, 

White, 

Per  bushel  of    CO  lbs. 

*      4  50 

2     Flour, 

Good, 

Superline, 

"     barrel  of  196  lbs. 

22  50 

3    Corn, 

Prime, 

White, 

"    bushel  of    56  lbs. 

4  00 

4    Uushelled  corn. 

" 

■'            "           56  lbs. 

3  95 

5    Corn  meal, 

Good, 

- 

"            '•           50  lbs. 

4  20 

6     Rye, 

Prime, 

_ 

«            "           56  lbs. 

3  20 

7     Cleaned  oats. 

" 

_ 

"          32  lbs. 

2  00 

8     "Wheat  bran. 

Good, 

- 

"            '■           17  lbs. 

50 

9     Shorts, 

" 

_ 

22  lbs. 

70 

10     Brown  stuff, 

" 

- 

"            '•          28  lbs. 

90 

11     Ship  stutt. 

■' 

- 

"            "          37  lbs. 

1  40 

12    Bacon. 

'• 

Hog  round. 

"     pound. 

1  00 

1.3    Salt  pork. 

" 

- 

•'         '■ 

1  00 

U    Lard, 

- 

"         '• 

1  00 

15    Horses, 

1st  class. 

Artillery,  etc. 

Average  price  per  head, 

350  00 

16    ■Wool, 

Fair, 

Washed, 

Per  pound. 

3  00 

17     Peas, 

Good, 

_ 

"    bushel  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

18    Beans, 

■' 

_ 

"            '•            " 

4  00 

19     Potatoes, 

" 

Irish, 

'•            " 

4  00 

20    Potatoes, 

" 

Sweet, 

"            " 

5  00 

21     Onions, 

" 

- 

"            " 

5  00 

22    Dried  peaches. 

" 

Peeled, 

"  of  38  lbs. 

8  00 

23    Dried  peaches. 

Unpoeled, 

"            "         " 

4  50 

24     Pried  apples. 

" 

Peeled, 

"            ■•  of  28  lbs. 

3  00 

25     Hay,  baled. 

" 

Timothy  or 

clover, 

"        100  lbs. 

4  00 

26    Hay, 

" 

Orchard  or  herd 

grass, 

»             « 

4  00 

27     Hay,  nubaled. 

'* 

Orchard,  or  herd 
grass. 

a 

3  70 

28     Sh'f  oats,  baled. 

" 

- 

"                 " 

4  00 

29    Sh'f  oats,  unb'd, 

" 

- 

"                 " 

3  70 

30     Blade  fodder. 

baled, 

" 

- 

"                 " 

4  00 

31     Blade  fodder. 

unbaled. 

" 

- 

tC                 .  £i 

3  70 

32     Shucks,  baled, 

" 

- 

"                      " 

2  50 

33     Shucks,  unbal'd 

" 

_ 

«                      .' 

2  % 

34     Wheat  straw. 

baled. 

" 

_ 

"                      " 

1  30 

35    Wheat  straw. 

unbaled. 

" 

- 

"                      " 

1  00 

36    Pasturage, 

" 

Interior, 

"    head  per  month. 

3  00 

37     Pasturage, 

" 

Near  cities, 

"        '■            " 

6  00 

38    Salt, 

'' 

- 

"     bushel  of  50  lbs. 

5  00 

39    Soap. 

" 

- 

"    pound, 

30 

40    Candles,     ' 

" 

Tallow, 

"        " 

1  00 

41     Vinegar, 

" 

Cider, 

"    gallon, 

1  00 

42    Whiskey, 

" 

Trade, 

'•        " 

3  00 

43     Sugar, 

a 

Brown, 

"    pound, 

1  00 

44    Molasses, 

" 

New  Orleans, 

"    gallon, 

8  00 

45     Rice, 

" 

- 

"    pound. 

15 

46    Coffee, 

" 

Rio. 

u             " 

3  00 

47     Tea, 

" 

Trade, 

■'         " 

10  00 

48    Vinegar, 

'< 

Manufactured, 

'•    gallon, 

50 

4!)    Pig  iron. 

" 

No.  1  quality, 

"    ton. 

125  00 

50    Pig  iron. 

" 

No.  2 

"    ton. 

no  00 

51    Pig  iron, 

" 

No.  3        " 

"    ton. 

100  00 

52    Bloom  iron, 

" 

- 

"    ton. 

180  00 

53    Smiths'  iron. 

" 

Round,  plato,and 

bar. 

"    ton, 

380  00 

54    Leather, 

" 

Harness, 

"    pound. 

2  60 

55    Leather, 

'< 

Sole, 

"        " 

2  40 

56    Leather, 

" 

Upper, 

"        " 

2  80 

m 


We  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Sccrctarj'  of  'War  to  instruct  the 
agents  of  the  government  not  to  impress  any  article  of  food  going  into 
cities  or  towns,  or  when  held  therein  by  retail  dealers  in  small  quanti- 
ties for  the  daily  or  weekly  consumption  of  the  inhabitants. 

But  this  restriction  not  to  apply  to  such  articles  held  by  speculators, 
or  those  holding  them  up  for  higher  prices. 
Signed, 

E.  W.  HuBAun. 
Robert  Gibbonkt. 
Wm.  B.   Harrison- 


ScHEDVLE  B. — Hire  of  Labor,  Teamt,    Wagons,  and  Driven. 


10. 
11. 

12. 
13. 
14. 


Baling  long  forage, 

Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur 

nished  by  the   government, 

Hauling, 

Hauling    grain, 

Hire    of  two  -  horse   team,  wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,. 
Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

.  Hire    of   four-horse  team,  wagon,   and 

driver,  rations  furnished  bj'  owner,.  . 
Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished   by  the 

government, ! 

.  Hire    of  six  -  horse  team,  wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,. . 
Hire   of  same,  rations   furnished  by  the 

government, 

Hire    of  laborer,    rations    furnished   by 

owner 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

Hire    of    same,    rations    furnished    by 

owner, 

Hire  of  same,  rations   furnished  by  the 

government, 

Signed, 


lbs. 

PRICE. 

Per  1 00 

.$  30 

"   66 

« 

0,i 

"  cwt. 

per  mile. 

Ot) 

"  bus. 

"   " 

03 

"  day, 

<l    « 
(i    (i 

«   ■< 

u    u 

10  00 

5  00 
13  00 

6  50 
16  00 

8  00 
2  00 
1  25 

"     mon 

th, 

40  00 

"   " 

20  00 

E.    W.    lEuBARD. 

Robert  Gibbonet. 
Wm.  B.  Harbison. 


64 


III.. GEORGIA. 


SCHBDULE  No.  1. — ^faximnnl  Pn'cei  fixed  by  the  Cnmmisniouers  for  the 
State  of  Gcorffiit,  for  Produce  ntid  Armi/  Sipplies  delivered  at  the  usual 
shipping  piiiitts  on  the  following  named  railroads,  to  continue  in  force 
until  the  loth  June,  1863. 


ern, 
ista 
Ves- 

'the 
and 

ill 

i"  ^  -  c  =  5 

lit 

ARTICLES. 

QUALITY. 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

■?o:s^=^.Si 

^^■5  S- 

Macon    ai: 
A.  &  W. 
and    Sav; 
tern  and 
Rome    G 
Georgia  1 
its  branc' 

Muscogee, 
vannah. 
Gulf,  Sou 
its  brand 

Wheat, 

Prime, 

White, 

Per  bush.  60  lbs. 

Flour, 

Good, 

Superfine, 

Per   bbl.   196  lbs. 

$35  00 

$40  00 

'• 

Less  cost  sacks. 

Per  sack  98  lbs. 

17  50 

20  00 

Corn. 

Prime, 

Shelled. 

Per  bush.  56  lbs. 

2  25 

1  50 

>i 

Unshelled, 

Per  bush.  70  lbs. 

2  10 

1  40 

Corn  meal. 

Good, 

_ 

Per  bush.  48  lbs. 

2  40 

1  60 

Hogs, 

Fair, 

Net, 

Per  hundred, 

39  00 

30  00 

" 

Gross, 

" 

20  00 

20  00 

Bacon, 

Good, 

Sides, 

Per  lb. 

85 

85 

'. 

" 

Hams, 

" 

80 

80 

" 

" 

Shoulders, 

75 

75 

" 

" 

Jowls, 

" 

30 

30 

Pork, 

" 

Salt, 

'■ 

CO 

00 

Lard, 

" 

_ 

li 

75 

75 

Beef, 

Fair, 

Good, 

Fresh — net, 
Salt  or  corned. 

ic 

25 

18 

" 

Dried, 

i: 

60 

40 

•' 

Gross, 

" 

IS 

12 

Peas, 

" 

_ 

Per  bush.  60  lbs. 

2  25 

1  50 

Beans, 

- 

a                      '. 

Potatoes, 

Irish, 

.(                      .1 

" 

" 

Sweet, 

a                    a 

2  60 

1  50 

Onions, 

" 

_ 

a                    u 

2  50 

2  50 

Peaches, 

" 

Dried,  peeled, 

Per  bush.  38  lbs. 

6  00 

6  00 

" 

'> 

Dried  uupee'd. 

i.               <i 

4  00 

4  00 

Apples, 

Dried, 

Per  bush.  28  lbs. 

4  00 

4  00 

Hay, 

" 

Baled. 
Unbaled, 

Per  100  lbs. 

Clover  or 

" 

Timothy, 

>' 

Baled, 

Clover  or 

(( 

Timothy, 

" 

Baled, 

Sheaf  oats, 

" 

<< 

11         i. 

'( 

Unbaled, 

«' 

Bl.  fodder, 

" 

Baled, 

" 

2  50 

2  00 

'• 

Unbaled, 

>' 

1  50 

1  00 

Sugar, 

" 

Brown, 

Per  lb. 

75 

75 

Molasses, 

'• 

- 

Per  gallon, 

4  50 

4  50 

Kice, 

'< 

Old, 

Per  lb. 

10 

10 

" 

New, 

" 

12 

12 

Salt, 

« 

- 

" 

Tallow, 

" 

- 

" 

75 

50 

Whiskey, 

" 

By  gov.  contr't, 

Per  gallon, 

" 

" 

When  impre'd. 

" 

Brandy, 

" 

Peach, 
Apple, 

"' 

65 

We,  the  commissioners  appointed  in  accordance  with  the  provigions 
of  the  Impressment  Act  for  the  State  of  Georgia,  after  mature  and 
careful. deliberation,  have  agreed  upon  the  foregoing  tariff  of  prices, 
which  we  think  fully  meets  the  contemplation  of  the  law  in  fixing  a 
just  compensation  for  the  articles  mentioned. 

We  need  not  add  any  thing  to  the  recent  patriotic  address  of  our  most 
excellent  President  as  to  the  duty  of  producers  in  this  crisis.  Blind, 
indeed,  must  be  the  judgment,  and  cold  the  patriotism,  that  will  not. 
rally  to  the  support  of  an  armj-  wliose  glorious  triumphs  have  shed  such 
undying  lustre  upon  our  national  history.  Standing  as  it  does  a  wall  of 
brass  between  us  and  our  malignant  foes,  shall  it  feel  the  pinchings  of 
hunger  when  our  granaries  arc  filled  to  overflowing  and  our  broad  fields 
are  waving  with  rich  grain  nearlj'  ready  for  the  sickle?  The  govern- 
ment demands  onlj*  your  surplus  supplies,  and  for  them  will  pay  re- 
munerative prices.  Fortify  the  hearts  of  our  soldiers,  then,  by  showing 
that  while  thej'  illustrate  the  chivalry  of  Georgia  upon  the  tented  field, 
we  at  home  arc  readj'  to  dispense  with  all  superfluities,  relinquish  all 
luxuries,  and  make  any  sacrifice  necessary  to  maintain  and  perpetuate 
our  honor  and  our  liberties.  While  we  may  have  erred  in  our  judgment 
as  to  what  is  a  f.tir  compensation  for  some  of  the  articles  in  the  above 
schedule  of  prices,  we  feel  that  we  have  stood  impartially  between  the 
government  and  the  producer,  aud  while  protecting  one  have  not  lost 
sight  of  the  other.  We  have  omitted  to  annex  prices  to  certain  articles, 
either  ou  account  of  their  scarcity,  or  because  the  government  is  fully 
supplied.     At  the  proper  time  prices  will  be  fixed  for  all. 

John  E.  Morgan, 
U.  B.  Wilkinson, 

Commiaiioners. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDKUS.  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  66.  f  ElCBMOND,  May  22, 1863. 

I.  .The  Act  of  Congress  "to  provide  and  organize  engineer  troops  to 
serve  during  the  war,"  approved  March  20,  186.3,  and  the  accompany- 
ing rules  and  regulations  for  the  selection  and  organization  of  the 
same,  are  published  for  the  information  and  direction  of  all  concerned  : 

"Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 
enact.  That  there  shall  be  selected,  in  such  manner  as  the  Secretary  of 


War  may  diroct,  from  eiu'h  division  of  infantry  in  service,  one  compa- 
ny of  engineer  troops,  to  consist  of  one  bundrcd  men,  chosen  with  a 
view  to  their  mochanical  skill  and  physic.il  fitness,  and  that  the  men 
assigned  to  such  company  shall  be  required  to  serve  in  the  same  only 
during  the  balance  of  their  term  of  service  respectively. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  each  company  shall  consist  of  eight  sergeants,  seven 
corporals,  forty  artificers,  and  forty-five  laborers,  and  that  two  musi- 
cians may  be  added. 

"  Sec.  3.  That  the  commissioned  officers  of  each  company  shall  con- 
sist of  one  captain,  one  first  lieutenant,  and  two  second  lieutenants,  and 
that  the  original  vacancies  in  these  companies  shall  be  filled  by  the 
transfer  of  officers  of  corresponding  grade  from  the  engineer  corps,  if 
practicable,  and  where  not,  then  from  the  other  corps  or  from  the  line 
or  stafiF  of  the  army,  reference  being  always  had  to  their  qualification 
as  engineers,  or  by  selection ;  but  no  one  shall  be  selected  who  is  not 
now  serving  in  or  with  the  army,  unless  he  is  a  military  or  civil  en- 
gineer. 

"  Sec  4.  That  the  companies  shall  be  organized  into  regiments  of 
ten  companies  each,  and  that  the  field  and  staif  ollicers  shall  consist  of 
one  colonel,  one  lieutenant-colonel,  one  major,  one  adjutant  with  the  rank 
of  first  lieutenant,  one  quartermaster-sergeant,  and  one  sergeant-major, 
and  that  the  original  vacancies  in  the  regiments  shall  be  filled  in  the 
manner  provided  for  filling  the  same  in  the  companies  by  the  third  sec- 
tion of  this  act,  and  that  the  sergeant-major  and  quartermaster-ser- 
geant shall  be  selected  from  the  enlisted  men  of  the  army. 

"  Sec.  5.  That  in  each  regiment  two  of  the  companies  shall  be  as- 
signed to  duty  as  pontoniers,  and  each  be  furnished  with  a  bridge  train 
complete. 

"  Sec.  6.  That  the  officer  in  harge  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  subject 
to  the  approval  of  the  Secrotar  of  War,  shall  prescribe  the  number, 
form,  and  dimensions  of  the  wago !;.■■■,  pontoons,  trestles,  tools,  implements, 
arms,  and  other  necessaries,  for  all  the  troops  organized  by  this  act. 

"  Sec.  7.  That  vaeancios  in  the  established  regiments  to  and  includ- 
ing the  rank  of  colonel,  shall  be  filled  by  promotion,  regimentally,  ac- 
cording to  seniority,  except  in  case  of  disability  or  other  incompe- 
tency. 

"  Sec.  8.  That  the  monthly  pay  of  the  engineer  troops  shall  be  as 
follows:  Of  a  colonel,  two  hundred  and  ten  dollars;  of  a  lieutenant- 
colonel,  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  dollars;  of  a  major,  one  hundred 
and  sixty-two  dollars;  of  a  captain,  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  ;  of 
a  first  lieutenant,  one  hundred  dollars  ;  of  a  second  lieutenant,  ninety 
dollars;  and  the  adjutant  shall  receive  ten  dollars  per  month  in  addi- 
tion to  his  pay  as  lieutenant. 


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"  Skc.  9.  That  the  pay  of  the  enlisted  men  per  month  shall  be  aa 
follows:  The  sergeant-major  ami  quartermaster-sergeant,  each  twenty- 
one  dollars  ;  sergeants,  thirty-four  dollars:  corporals,  twenty  dollars  j 
artificers,  seventeen  dollars;  laborers  and  musicians,  thirteen  dollars. 

"  Sec.  10.  That  mounted  engineer  troops  may  be  selected  from  the 
cavalry,  and  be  organized  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  for 
engineer  troops,  as  hereinbefore  specified." 

II.. The  method  of  selection  and  organization,  under  the  forcgoiny; 
act,  shall  be  as  follows  : 

1.  Tho  senior  engineer  officer  serving  with  the  commanding  geucr;l 
of  aduparlment  will  be  authorized  by  him  to  organize  the  engineer 
companies  of  tho  command. 

2.  Persons  recommended  by  the  Engineer  Bureau  to  be  appointed  as 
company  officers  to  tho  respective  companies  when  organized,  will  le 
directed  to  report  to  the  senior  officer  of  engineers  in  tho  department, 
who,  aided  by  tlieui  and  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  comm.indiTig 
general,  shall  select  from  specified  divisions,  in  consultation  with  their 
commanders,  the  required  number  of  mon  to  form  the  companies. 

.3.  The  selections  shall  be  distributed  as  equally  as  practicable  among 
all  the  companies  of  a  division,  regard  being  had  to  the  efficiency  of 
the  engineer  service.  Preference-shall  be  given  to  volunteers  for  this 
special  service,  provided  they  possess  the  requisite  qualifications. 

4.  The  non-commissioned  officers  of  each  company  shall  be  selectcl, 
and  the  privates  cla.isified  into  artificers  and  laborers,  by  the  person 
selected  to  organize  it,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  senior  ofiicer  of 
engineer  troops,  as  soon  as  appointed. 

5.  The  Chief  of  the  Engineer  i5iireau,  after  naming  the  companies, 
and  designating  to  which  regiment  they  shall  be  assigned,  will  recom- 
mend to  the  War  department  the  appointment  of  company  and  field 
officers. 

6.  Two  of  the  companies  of  each  regiment  shall  be  .selected  by  the 
senior  field  officer  of  engineer  troops,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
Chief  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  as  companies  of  pontonicrs,  but,  unless 
provided  with  bridge  trains,  to  serve  as  the  other  companies. 

7.  Whenever  the  number  of  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates 
falls  below  sixty  in  any  company,  it  shall  be  recruited  to  its  maximum 
number,  as  licreiubefore  specified. 

8.  In  lieu  of  the  usual  return  of  officers  an.l  hired  men  required  of 
engineer  officers,  returns  of  officers  and  enrolled  men,  showing  the  pre 
sent,  absent,  and  .sick,  shall  be  forwarded  monthly  by  the  senior  field 


officer  of  each  regiment  to    the  Chief  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  who  will 
furnish  blank  forms  for  the  purpose. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Richmond,  May  2.5,  18G3, 

No.  67. 

L.OflScerson  ordnance  duty,  when  temporarily  absent  from  their 
posts  or  positions  in  the  field,  under  special  orders,  shall  be  allowed 
their  personal  e.\penses,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  appropriation  for  ord- 
nance service,  in  lieu  of  all  allowances  for  fuel,  quarters,  and  forage 
for  the  same  period.  Each  account  must  be  certified  to  by  the  party 
receiving  the  payment,  and  approved  by  the  officer  under  whose  orders 
he  acts. 

II.  .AVhenever  a  cavalryman  fails  and  refuses  te  keep  himself  pro- 
vided with  a  serviceable  horse,  he  may,  upon  the  order  of  the  corps 
commander,  be  transferred  to  any  company  of  infantry  or  artillery  of 
the  same  army  that  he  may  select.  In  lieu  of  such  soldiers,  others,  be- 
longing to  the  infantry  or  artillery,  who  are  able  to  furnish  horses  and 
prefer  that  service,  may,  in  like  manner,  be  transferred,  in  equal  num- 
ber, to  the  cavalry. 

III.  .Surgeons  will  turn  over  money  or  other  effects  of  deceased  sol- 
diers (except  clothing,  which  will  be  disposed  of  as  directed  by  Gene- 
ral Orders,  No.  49,  1863)  to  the  quartermaster  of  the  regiment  to  which 
the  soldier  belonged,  if  he  died  in  the  field,  or  to  the  quartermaster  of 
the  post,  if  he  died  in  hospital,  taking  therefor  receipts  and  duplicate 
— one  of  which  will  be  forwarded  bj'  him  to  the  commanding  officer  of 
the  company  of  which  the  soldier  was  a  member,  to  be  sent  by  him  to 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  and  the  other  to  the  Second  Auditor  of  the 
Treasury.  Quartermasters  will  take  up,  upon  their  quarterly  returns, 
money  thus  paid,  specifying  the  amount  left  by  each  deceased  soldier, 
his  name,  company,  and  regiment. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


0!) 

GENERAIi  ORDEKS.")  Adjutant  and  iNspECTOR-GENfRAi's  OrricE. 

No.  68.  J  KiriiMOXP,  May  27.  1863. 

I- .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Knoxr'illc,  Tennessee, 
February  20,  ISC.'J,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  Ifi,  Head-quarters 
Department  of  East  Tennessee,  of  December  15,  1862,  and  of  which 
Colonel  J.  J.  Finley,  fith  regiment  Florida  volunteers,  was  President, 
was  tried : 

Captain  J.  Q.  Arnold,  12th  battalion  Tennessee  cavalry,  on  the  fol- 
lowing charge  and  specification  : 

Charge:    Violation  of  the  9th  Article  of  War. 

Specijication  :  In  this,  that  the  said  John  Q.  Arnold  did  willfully, 
maliciously,  and  feloniously,  and  with  malice  af.irethought,  kill  and 
murder  Major  T.  W.  Adrien,  his  superior  officer,  by  shooting  him  with 
a  pistol  loaded  with  powder  and  ball,  which  he  then  and  there  held  iu 
hi.s  hand,  from  which  ho,  the  said  T.  W.  Adrien,  did  die.  This  at 
Kingston,  Tenn.,  on  or  about  the  16th  day  of  November,  1862. 

To  the  above  charge  and  specification  the  accused  filed  a  special  pica 
to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  court,  which,  having  been  overruled  by  the 
court,  the  plea  of  not  guilty  was  entered. 

H-  .Findiug  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court  having  maturely  considered  the  case,  do  find  the  accused, 
Captain  J.  Q.  Arnold,  12th  battalion  Tennessee  cavalrj',  as  follows : 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  Charge:  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge:  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  (two-thirds  of  the  court  concurring)  sentence  him 
to  be  shot  to  death  bj-  musketry. 

III.. The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  submitted  to  the  President,  the  following  orders  arc,  by 
his  direction,  made  therein  : 

Murder  can  onlj-  be  punished  under  the  Articles  of  War,  when  inci- 
dent to  some  other  clearly  defined  oftence.  It  docs  not  of  itself  con- 
stitute a  military  crime  :  and  the  33d  Article  of  War  provides  that, 
when  capital  crimes  are  committed  by  persons  in  the  military  service, 
they  shall  be  turned  over,  on  demand,  to  the  civil  authorities.  The  9th 
article,  under  which  Captain  Arnold  was  tried,  requires  that  the  officer 
against  whom  violence  is  offered  must  bo  "in  the  execution  of  his  ofiSce." 
Hence,  to  take  the  cascout  of  the  33d  article,  which  is  general  in  its 
application,  and  refer  it  to  the  9th,  which  is  special,  the  murder  or  kill- 
ing must  be  set  forth  in  the  specification  in  such  terms  as  to  show  that 
the  court  has  jurisdiction;  and  this  can  only  be  done  by  alleging,  in 


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the  words  of  the  article,  that  the  officer  was  "in  the  execution  of  his 
office."  The  omission  cannot  be  supplied  by  evidence,  even  where  no 
objection  is  made:  for  consent  can  not  confer  jurisdiction.  In  the  pre- 
sent case,  however,  objection  was  made  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  court 
over  the  particular  crime  alleged,  and  the  point  has  thus  been  distinctly 
presented  to  the  department.  Nor  does  the  evidence  show  Major  Adrien 
to  have  been  clearly  "  in  the  discharge  of  his  office  "'  at  the  lime  of  the 
killing.  On  the  contrary,  it  is  stated  that  he  was  "  walking  across  the 
street."  To  be  in  the  execution  of  his  office,  the  officer  must  be  in  the 
actual  discharge  of  some  duty.  It  is  resistance  to  authority  under 
such  circumslauces,  that  the  9th  article  forbids  and  punishes.  Other 
offences — such  Jis  disobedience,  disrespect,  mutiny — are  made  punishable 
by  other  articles;  and  the  Oth  article  seems  designed  to  protect  officers 
in  the  enforcement  of  discipline  and  against  resistance  while  in  the  exe- 
cution of  that  duly.  The  department  can  only  deal  with  offences  when 
they  are  properly  presented  through  the  'established  forms  of  the  ser- 
vice. 

The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  in  this  case  must  beset  aside, 
for  the  reasons  stated ;  but  it  is  supposed  that  any  responsibility  that 
the  party  has  incurred  to  the  civil  authorities  of  Tennessee,  is  n-ot 
affected  by  this  proceeding. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  I nsjiector- General. 


GKNKRAL   OIIDKKS, )  Adjutant  and  Ix.sj'ectou-General's  Office, 

No.  iXt.  j  Richmond,  Ala}/  '28,  1863. 

I.  .In  places  where  there  are  three  or  more  hospitals,  three  surgeons 
in  charge  of  hospitals,  or  divisions  in  hospitals,  shall  constitute  a  board 
of  examiners  for  the  hospitals  to  which  they  belong,  whose  duty  it 
shall  be,  twice  in  each  week,  to  visit  said  hospitals  aud  examine  ap- 
plicants for  furloughs  :  and  in  all  cases  where  they  shall  find  an  ap- 
plicant unfit  for  military  duty,  either  fr^m  disease  or  wounds,  and  like- 
ly so  to  remain  for  thirty  days  or  upward,  they  shall,  provided  his  life 
or  convalescence  will  not,  in  their  opinion,  be  endangered  thereby, 
grant  a  furlough  for  such  time,  not  to  exceed  sixty  days,  as  they  shall 
deem  he  will  be  unfit  for  duty. 

II.  .Tbero  will  be  detailed  for  each  board  herein  constituted,  from 
one  of  the  hospitals  visited  by  them,  a  coinpotont  clerk,  who  will  issue 
furloughs,  to  be  signed  by  the  senior  member  of  the  board  ;  which  wil! 
specify  therein  the  length  of  furli-ugb,  the  place  of  residence  of  the  sol- 


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dier,  hia  company,  rogimt-nt,  and  brigade  :  and  no  further  formality 
shall  be  required  of  the  soldier,  and  no  passport  other  than  his  fiir- 
K.ngh. 

III>.In  every  case  furluughcd  under  the  provisiouj  of  this  order,  a 
medical  certificate  stating  the  name,  company,  regiment,  and  brigade 
of  the  soldier,  his  place  of  residence,  and  the  length  of  furlough,  with 
the  full  particulars  of  the  disease,  wound,  or  disability,  and  the  period 
during  which  he  has  sufl'ered  from  its  effecis,  with  an  opinion  of  tho 
time  which  will  elapse  before  he  can  resume  duty,  must  be  furnished 
by  tho  board  of  examiners  to  the  Surgeon-General :  and  if  such  fur- 
lough h.as  bcou  improperly  granted,  the  derelict  officer  will  be  held  re- 
sponsible before  a  military  tribunal. 

IV-  .The  board  aforementioned  will  also  examine  applicants  for  dis- 
charge from  the  service,  in  hospitals  visited  by  them,  and  may  recom- 
mend a  discharge  when  a  soldier  is  deemed  permanently  unfit  for  ser- 
vice in  the  field  or  in  any  department  of  the  army,  in  consequence  of 
wounds,  disease,  or  infirmitj';  in  which  ease  certificates  of  disabili- 
ty, signed  by  the  senior  member  of  tho  board,  and  approved  by  the 
general  commanding  tho  armj'  or  department  to  which  the  soldier  be- 
longs, or  by  the  Surgeon-General,  will  entitle  him  to  a  discharge,  to  bo 
granted  by  the  commandant  of  the  post,  who  will  complete  and  for- 
ward the  "certificates  of  disability"  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspectci- 
Goneral's  office.  Tho  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  hospital  will  make  out 
"  final  statements."  The  soldier  will  receive  transportation  to  the 
place  of  his  enlistment  or  residence. 

v.. In  places  where  there  are  but  two  hospitals,  two  surgeons  in 
charge  of  a  hospital  or  division  shall  constitute  a  board  for  the  pur- 
poses aforesaid;  and  in  places  where  there  is  but  one  hospital,  the  sur- 
geon in  charge  and  two  assistant  surgeons,  if  there  be  two,  and  if  not, 
then  one,  shall  constitute  a  board  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  and  may 
furlough,  and  recommend  discharges,  as  herein  prescribed. 

Vl..AVhcre  a  soldier  has  been  discharged  under  the  provisions  of 
this  order,  and  his  "descriptive  list "  and  "final  statements"  can  nut 
be  procured,  he  will  be  mustered  by  the  surgeon  in  charge  on  tho  hos- 
pital rolls,  for  payment,  upou  his  affidavit,  taken  before  one  or  more 
witnesses,  that  he  has  not  received  pa^'  fur  the  period  for  which  ho 
claims  it  to  be  due,  and  that  he  is  not  indebted  to  the  Confederate 
States  bcj'ond  the  amount  stated  bj-  him. 

VII.. Notices  of  all  furloughs  issued  under  these  orders  will  be  for- 


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warded  weekly  by  the  board  of  esamincrs,  and  notices  of  all  discharges 
from  service,  by  commnndants  of  posts,  to  tlio  immediate  commander 
of  the  company  to  vehich  tlie  soldier  belongs,  and  to  the  Adjiitrtnt  and 
Inspector-General. 

VIII.  .The  house  surgeon  in  all  hospitals  shall  see  each  patient  un- 
der his  charge  once  every  day. 

IX.  .Paragraphs  III,  IV  and  V,  General  Orders,  No.  51,  current 
aeries,  from  this  office,  pertaining  to  matters  herein  regulated,  are  re- 
scinded. 

X.. Boards  of  examiners  and  post  commandants  have  no  power  to 
grant  an  officer  leave  of  absence.  They  can  only  recommend  it,  upon 
the  usual  surgeon's  certificate,  for  the  consideration  of  the  command- 
ing officer  of  the  army  or  department  to  which  the  officer  belongs. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  [nRpector-Geueral. 


GENERAIi  ORDERS."!  .^djutan't  and  iNsPF.CTon-GENERAL's  Office, 

No.  70.  )  Richmond,  May  29,  1863. 

I.. The  following  Act  of  Congress,  .Tnd  reguhi-tions  adopted  by  the 
Department  in  pursuance  thereof,  are  published  for  the  information  of 
all  concerned  : 

AN    ACT  TO    ABOLISH    SUP  KKMU.M  RRARY    OFFICERS    IN    THE     COMMISSARY 
AND  quartermaster's  DEPARTMENTS. 

The  Congress  of  the  Coji/ederatc  Staten  of  America  do  enact,  That  the 
office  of  regimental  commissary  bo  and  the  same  is  hereby  abolished, 
and  the  duties  heretofore  devolved  by  law  upon  said  commissary  shall 
be  performed  by  the  regimental  quartermaster;  provided,  that  said 
quartermaster  shall,  if  required  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  execute  a  new 
bond,  with  such  additional  penalty  as  he  may  require. 

•'Sec.  2.  That  the  commanding  officer  of  a  regiment  or  battalion 
shall,  when  the  good  of  the  service  in  his  opinion  requires  it,  detail  a  non- 
commissioned officer  or  private  as  commissary  sergeant,  who  shall  be 
assigned  to  the  regimental  quarterinnster  to  perform  the  duties  now 
performed  by  commissary  sergeants  ;  and  the  non-commissioned  officer 
or  private  so  detailed  shall  receive,  as  extra  pay,  twenty  dollars  per 
month. 


"  Sec.  ".  That  the  regimental  quartcrraastcrs  aeting  as  commissaries 
sbiiU  draw  supplies  for  their  respective  regiments  on  Provision  Returns, 
Form  I'l,  and  not  in  bulk;  and  when  detached  from  their  brigades,  so 
that  it  is  impracticable  to  draw  supplies  from  the  brigade  commissary, 
it  Bhall  be  the  dutj'  of  the  nearest  brigade  or  post  commissary  to  sup- 
ply his  regiment  on  Provision   Return  14. 

"  Sec.  4.  Sales  to  officers  shall  be  made  by  the  brigade  commissaries 
to  which  such  officers  are  attached. 

"  Sec.  5.  That  quartermasters  and  commissaries,  assistant  quarter- 
masters and  assistant  commissaries,  who  become  permanently  detached 
from  divisions,  brigades,  or  regiments  to  whieli  thej'  are  originally  ap- 
pointed and  assigned,  respectively,  whether  by  resignation  or  otherwise, 
shall  cease  to  be  officers  of  the  army,  and  their  names  shall  be  dropped 
from  the  rolls  of  the  army,  unless  rcas.signed  by  a  special  order  of  the 
Secretarj'  of  War. 

"  Sr(\  6.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  issue 
the  necessarj'  orders  for  the  earliest  practicable  enforcement  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  law  ;  and  that  he  shall  communicate  to  the  chiefs  of  the 
subsistence  and  quartermaster's  bureaus  the  names  of  the  commissaries 
and  assistant  commissaries,  quartermasters  and  assistant  quartermas- 
ters retained  and  dropped  from  the  rolls  under  this  act. 

"Sro.  7.  That  all  laws  an  J  parts  of  laws  contravening  thu  provisions 
of  this  act,  bo  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed."  [Approved  May  I, 
1,SG3.] 

//.  .  Iie<juhtlii>ns. 

1.  After  this  date  n(>  ajipointment  will  be  made  of  regimental  or  bat- 
talion commissaries  in  the  provisional  army.  Departmental  command- 
ers will  direct  the  transfer,  liy  regimental  commissaries,  of  all  money, 
eflfects,  and  property  in  their  hands  to  the  proper  regimental  quarter- 
masters, who  will  thereafter  discharge  the  duties  of  the  former,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  this  act.  Until  such  transfer  is  per- 
fected, regimental  commissaries  will  continue  in  the  perform.ance  of 
their  usual  duties  ;  but,  after  the  3Ist  day  of  July  next,  all  quartermas- 
ters and  commissaries,  assistant  quartermasters  and  assistant  commis- 
saries, who  have  not  been,  or  may  not  be,  prior  to  July  31st,  specially 
detailed  or  assigned  to  duty,  will  cease  to  be  officers  in  the  Confederate 
service. 

2.  Sales  to  ofTiccrs  will,  after  the  31st  of  July  next,  be  made  by  the 
brigade  commissary,  as  required  in  the  4th  section  of  the  act;  and  to 
enable  him  to  do  so,  the  brigade  commander  will  select  and  report  to 
the  War  department,  through  the  usual  chaunel,  the  best  qualified  regi- 
mental commissary  of  his  brigade,  for  assignment  to  duty  with  the 
brigade  commissary.     It  shall  be  th'c  special   duty  of  the  commissary 


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thus  assigueil  to  receive  supplies  in  bulk,  ami  to  make  the  usually  rr- 
quired  sales  to  officers  of  the  army.  He  will  be  uudor  the  immediate 
direction  of  the  brigade  commissary,  will  receipt  to  him  for  all  proper- 
ty received,  and  make  through  him  the  proper  reports  and  returns  of 
his  transactions. 

3.  In  cavalry  regiments  a  lieutenant  of  cavalry  or  other  competent 
ofiBcer  may  be  detailed,  when  necessary,  to  aid  the  regimental  quarter- 
master in  the  discharge  of  such  additional  duties  as  may  be  devolved 
upon  him  under  the  operation  of  this  law. 

4.  Additional  bonds  will  not  be  required  of  regimental  quartermas- 
ters charged  with  commissary  duties,  except  where  directed  by  the  Sec- 
retary of  War. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OEDEKS.  )  Adjutant  akd  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  71.  )  Richmond,  JUay  30,  1863. 

The  following  act  of  Congress  having  been  approved  by  the  Presi- 
dent, is  announced  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned  : 

AN    ACT   ALLOWING    HOSPITAL   ACCOMMOPATIONS   TO    SICK   AND    WOUNDED 
OFFICERS. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
sick  or  wounded  officers  shall  be  allowed  hospital  accommodations  in 
any  of  the  hospitals  of  the  Confederate  States,  at  one  dollar  per  diem. 

"Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  When  said  officer  shall  be  without 
money,  he  shall,  nevertheless,  be  entitled  to  the  same.  The  surgeon  in 
charge,  at  the  expiration  of  every  thirty  days,  shall  state  the  account, 
and  be  entitled  to  draw  the  amount  at  any  place  where  the  officer  might 
have  drawn  it,  which  shall  be  deducted  from  said  officer's  pay,  in  the 
same  way  as  if  he  himself  had  drawn  it ;  and  any  officer  drawing  the 
same  again  shall  be  punished  as  in  the  case  of  fraudulent  drawers." 
[Approved  April  29,  1863.] 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


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GENERAL  ORDETIS  "1  Awutast  vxn  Iv'rfECTOu-fiENEKAL's  OrricE. 

No.  72.  )  Uicnsioxn.  Jroie  1.  ISS."?. 

I.. At  the  military  court  held  for  the  army  oorp.s  dT  Major-Generiil 
Samuel  .Tone?,  at  Oray  Sulphur  Spring?,  Virginia,  May  5,  1S63,  was 
arraigned  and  tried  : 

Captain  Wm.  S.  Rowau,  Company  A,  60th  Virginia  volunteers,  on 
the  following  charges.  (The  specifications  being  numerous  and  lengthj', 
are  omitted  in  this  order.) 

Chrtrtje  In!  :  Violation  of  the  S.3d  Article  of  War. 

Chfifje  2'1 :   Violation  of  the  9ytli  Article  of  War. 

II. .  Fiiidhif/ ami  Scittenre  of  the   Court. 

Having  m.aturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  (he  court  find  the 
accused,  Ciiptain  AVni.  S.  Kowau,  C'onipnny  A,  (tdth  Virginia  volun- 
teers : 

Of  the  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  dismissed  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

III.  .The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
have  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  before  the 
President^  and  the  following  orders  are  now  made  thereon  : 

The  charges  are  both  too  defective  to  sustain  a  trial.  Neither  the 
83d  nor  the  99th  Article  of  War  defines  any  oflcnce  whatever,  nor  do 
they  direct  the  performance  of  any  duty.  No  violation  of  either  of 
those  articles  can  properly  be  charged. 

Under  the  SSd  Article,  the  only  charge  to  be  preferred  is  "  cone/ act 
unbecoming  an  officer  and  yenflemau  ;"  and  under  the  99th.  "  conduct  to 
the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military  dincipline."  The  specifica- 
tions would  then  have  been  responsive  to  the  charges,  and  would  have 
sustained  a  trial  and  sentence  in  accordance  with  the  evidence. 

IV.. For  the  reasons  above  assigned  the  proceedings  must  bo  set 
aside,  and  Captain  Kowan  will  be  released  from  arrest  and  restored  to 
duty.  The  record  discloses  facts  very  disgraceful  tto  him  ;  but  it  is 
hoped  that  his  accidental  escape  from  deserved  punishment  may  re- 
sult in  a  determination  to  retrieve  his  character  as  a  citizen  and  officer 
of  the  army. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  In^pcctov-Ocneral. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS.  )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

Richmond,  June  2,  1863. 


ENERAL  ORDERS.  1 

No.  73.  ) 


I.. At  the  military  court  held  for  the  army  of  Lieutenant-General 
Polk,  at  Shelby ville,  Tenn.,  April  U,  1863,  wa.s  tried: 

Captain  W.  W.  W.  AVood,  Company  L,  Blythe's  regiment  of  Missis- 
sippi volunteers,  on  the  following  charge  and  specifications  : 

Chanje  :    Conduct  unbecoming  an  ollicer  and  gentleman. 

Specificatioiu  :  The  1st  and  3d  are  omitted.     The  2d  is  as  follows  : 

Specification  2  :  In  this,  that  the  said  Captain  W.  W.  W.  Wood, 
Company  L,  Blythe's  Mississippi  regiment  of  volunteers,  remained  in 
camp  four  days  preceding  and  during  the  battle  of  Murfreesboro',  but 
came  to  his  company  the  day  after  said  battle,  to  wit,  January  1,  1863, 
and  took  command  of  his  company  until  a  part  of  the  regiment,  his 
company  included,  was  ordered  forward  to  support  the  sharp-shooters 
who  were  in  front  of  the  line  of  battle,  when  said  Captain  W.  W.  W. 
Wood,  Company  L,  Blythe's  Mississippi  regiment,  made  a  pretext  to 
Lieutenant  O'ilear,  of  his  company,  for  momentarily  leaving  his  place. 
He,  the  said  Captain  W.  W.  W.  Wood,  Company  L,  Blythe's  regiment, 
returned  to  his  company  no  more,  but  reported  to  Doctor  X.  Xaupi, 
surgeon  of  said  regiment,  who  refused  to  excuse  him.  Nevertheless, 
said  Captain  W.  W.  W.  Wood,  Company  L,  Blythe's  Mississippi  regi- 
ment of  volunteers,  went  back  to  camp,  and  remained  there  till  forced 
out  on  the  foUoAviug  morning.  All  this  near  Murfreesboro',  Tenn., 
January  1,  1863. 

II.  .Finding  and  Sentence. 

The  majority  of  the  court  find  the  accused,  Captain  W.  W.  W.  Wood, 
Company  L,  Blythe's  Mississippi  regiment,  as  follows: 

Of  Specification  1st:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  so  much  of  that  part  of  Specification  2d  which  charges  him  with 
two  days  remaining  away  from  his  company  at  camp  :   Guilty. 

The  whole  court  find  hiui  of  the  remainder  of  Specification  2d  :  Not 
Guilty. 

The  whole  court  honorably  acquit  him  of  the  3d  Specification,  and 
say :  Not  Guilty. 

The  majority  of«the  court  find  him  of  the  Charge  :  Guilty,  and  sen- 
tence him  to  be  dismissed  the  service. 

III.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  have  been  submitted  to 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  before  the  President,  and  the  follow- 
ing orders  are  now  made  thereon  : 


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Captain  Wood  was  tried  on  the  sinj^le  charge  of  "  eonduct  uuliccom- 
ing  an  officer  and  geullenian,"  un<ler  which  three  specifications  were 
laid.  The  whole  court  acquit  him  of  the  3d  specification.  A  majority 
ac({uit  him  of  the  1st  and  part  of  the  2d  specification,  but  find  him 
guilty  of  the  remainder  of  2d  .specification,  and  guilty  of  the  charge. 
A  portion  of  the  2d  specification  is,  therefore,  all  that,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  court,  sustains  the  charge.  But  this  finding  is  altogether  too  im- 
perfect and  uncertain.  If  the  2<1  specification  refers  to  separate  and 
distinct  offences,  it  is  wholly  defective,  and  should  have  been  set. 
aside  before  the  trial  :  but  if  it  embraces  a  single  substantive  offence, 
the  court  can  not  separate  its  parts,  and  find  the  accused  guilty  as  to 
one  portion  and  not  guilty  as  to  another,  uiilenn  it  is  clear  th<it  the  /not s 
thu«  sef)(iriited  n»d  eatdhtinhrd,  of  thcm»eJv<a  coimtitiite  the  parliriihir 
offence  chnryed.  I?ut  this  is  far  from  being  clear.  The  looseness  and 
uncertainty  of  the  2d  s[)ecification,  and  the  finding  thereon,  are  a  suffi- 
cient and  fatal  objection.  The  whole  finding  is,  moreover,  informal  and 
irregular.  The  judges  give  lengthy  and  separate  opinions  in  connec- 
tion with  it,  and  represent  one  part  of  their  finding  to  be  by  a  majority 
and  the  remainder  by  the  whcde  court.  It  is  never  desirable  to  state 
by  what  vote  the  court  has  arrived  at  its  conclusions,  and  it  is  contra- 
ry to  the  practice  of  courts  martial  to  do  so.  Upon  the  whole,  the  pro- 
ceedings are  set  aside,  and  Captain  Wood  will  therefore  be  released 
from  arrest  and  roturned  to  duty. 

liy  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-G eneval. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  >  Adjutant  and  Ixspector-Gbneral's  Office, 

No.  74.  i  Richmond,  June  3,  1863. 

I.  .The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  having  failed  to  recognize 
the  appointment  of  provost  marshals  from  persons  not  belonging  to  the 
army,  or  to  make  appropriation  for  the  services  of  those  persons  who 
had  been  employed  in  that  capacity,  hereafter  no  such  appointments 
will  be  made. 

II.  .The  generals  of  departments  will  report  the  posts  at  which  pro- 
vosts marshals  are  needed,  with  the  number  of  provost  or  other  guards 
at  the  same,  and  recommend  for  appointment  .suitable  officers  for  the 
same. 

III.  .In  all  cases,  preference  will  be  given  to  competent  officers  who 


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have  become  disabled,   by  wounds   or  other    infirinily,  for  active    field 
duty. 

IV.. At  .all  the  posts  not  supplied,  before  the  1st  of  July,  with  pro- 
vost marshals  belonging  to  the  army,  in  accordance  with  this  order,  the 
office  will  bo  considered  as  abolished. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspcctor-Geiteral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  In-spector-General's  Ofpick. 

Xo.  75.  j  RiCHMOXD,  Jiinf.  4,  18C3. 

I.. The  following  act  of  Congress  concerning  compens.ation  to  de- 
tailed men,  and  the  instructions  of  the  War  department  in  regard  there- 
to, are  published  for  the  information  and  direction  of  all  concerned  : 

'■  1.  The  CoH^jresi  a/ iJii;  C'i)ttfedertite  Statcx  oj  America  da  enact,  Tliat 
non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  or  privates,  when  emploj'cd  on 
detached  or  detailed  service  by  the  departmental  or  other  commander 
of  a  district,  or  under  the  direction  of  any  of  the  military  bureaus,  in- 
stead of  the  compensation  now  allowed,  may  be  allowed  the  sura  of  not 
more  than  three  dollars  per  day,  in  lieu  of  rations  and  all  other  allow- 
ances, upon  the  recommendation  of  the  officer  immediately  in  charge 
of  such  men,  with  the  approval  of  the  commander  or  other  chief  of  bu- 
reau, as  the  case  may  be,  and  the  sanction  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

"2.  This  act  shall  remain  in  force  for  one  year  from  the  first  day  of 
.Januarj',  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three."  [Approved  May  1st,  18G3.] 

II.. 1.  Detailed  men  in  the  service  of  the  several  militarj'  bureaus, 
other  than  the  clerks  described  in  act  No.  62  (clerks  employed  in  public 
offices  in  the  City  of  Richmond,  by  reason  of  physical  disability),  will 
be  allowed  such  sum  per  day  in  lieu  of  rations  and  all  other  allowances, 
not  exceeding  three  doUar.s,  as  may  be  recommended  by  the  olficer  in 
charge  of  such  detailed  men,  and  apjjroved  by  the  chief  of  bureau. 

2.  The  maximum  allowance  of  thcee  dollars  will  be  paid  only  to  the 
class  of  detailed  men  serving  at  posts  or  stations  without  troops,  or  in 
counties  and  towns,  or  government  work-shops. 

'■i'l.  The  rate  of  .allowance  to  men  serving  iu  the  field,  as  clerks  at 
headquarters,  or  on  duty  iu  the  quartermaster's,  ordnance,  engiuccr, 
commissary,  or  medical,  mining  and  nitre  departments,  will  be  estab- 
lished at  such  sums  per  diem  as  may  be  recommended  by  the  officer  in 
charge  of  such  men,  and  approved  by  the  commanding  general.     These 


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rates  will  not  exceed  $1  25  per  diem,  e\oei)t  in  special  oatjcs  of  service 
iu  tlie  departments  above  mentioned,  when  a  greater  rate  may  be  au- 
thorized by  the  chiefs  of  bureaus,  upon  the  approval  of  the  command- 
ing general. 

4.  The  extra  compensation  allowed  by  the  foregoing  act  will  be  paid 
to  detailed  men  by  the  departments  iu  which  they  are  respectively  em- 
ployed, except  medical  departments,  upon  such  rolls  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed ;  except  that  payments  by  the  quartermaster's  department  will 
be  made  upon  rolls  according  to  Form  No.  3,  Regulations  of  the  Quar- 
termaster's department.  Such  payments  will  be  iu  full  of  all  payments 
and  allowances  heretofore  paid  and  allowed  to  soldiers,  except  their 
monthly  pay.  Payments  in  thawuedical  department  will  be  made  as 
now,  by  (juartcrmasters. 

5.  Shoemakers  detailed  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  October 
9th,  1862,  who  may  receive  the  per  diem  allowance  in  lieu  of  rations 
and  other  allowances  authorized  by  the  act  of  May  1st,  1803,  will  also 
be  entitled  to  the  compensation  of  thirty-five  cents  per  pair  for  shoes 
manufactured  by  them,  authorized  by  the  said  act  of  October  9,  1862. 

6.  All  payments  to  detailed  men  under  the  act  of  May  1st,  1863,  will 
be  made  from  the  first  day  of  January,  1863,  and  will  not  be  continued 
beyond  the  31st  of  December,  1863;  but  no  payment  shall  bo  made  to 
those  who  have  been  detailed  heretofore,  "  without  pay  and  allowance 
as  soldiers."  From  and  after  31st  May,  payments  to  such  men  will  be 
made  under  this  act. 

7.  The  approval  of  the  chiefs  of  bureaus  and  the  sanction  of  the 
Secretary  of  War,  required  by  the  above  recited  act  of  Congress,  will 
not  be  necessary  in  each  particular  case  of  detail;  but  each  bureau  may, 
with  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  prescribe  general  regula- 
tions for  the  payment  A  the  different  classes  of  detailed  mcu  in  their 
respective  emploj'ments. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General . 


GENERAL  ORDERS. "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gkneiial's  Offick, 

No.  7.6.  j  •  RiCHMO.vi),  June.  5,  1S63. 

Officers  of  the  army  ar^  directed,  in  all  official  reports,  whether  of 
sieges,  campnigns,  or  battles,  to  confine  their  statements  to  the  facts  and 
events  connected  with  the  matter  on  which  they  report.  No  extraneous 
subject,  whether  of  speculation  or  of  collateral  narrative,  has  a  proper 


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place  in  the  official  reports  of  military   operations.     As  much  concise- 
ness as  is  consistent  with  perspicuity  and  fullness  of  statement,  will  be 
observed  in  such  communications. 
By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Jiisjjcctor- General. 


GENERAL  ORDEKS.']  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  77.  J  «.  Richmond,  June,  6, 1863. 

When  an  infantry  soldier  is  detailed  as  a  courier,  under  paragraph 
III,pGeneral  Orders,  No.  7,  current'series,  and  shall  keep  himself  pro- 
vided with  a  serviceable  horse,he  will  be  allowed  forty  eeuts  per  day 
for  the  use  and  risk  of  his  horse. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  [nspector-General. 


GENERAL;;oRDERS,~)  adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  7S.  f  Richmond.  Jxine  7, 1863. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  camp  of  Major-Gener- 
al  Anderson's  division,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  1.^3,  of  1862, 
from  Head-quarters  of  Department  of  Norlfcern  Virginia,  was  ar- 
raigned and  tried  : 

Private  Allen  Matthew.^,  Company  E,  Gth  regiment  Virginia  infan- 
try, on  the  following  charge,  viz  : 

Charge  :   Desertion. 

Specification  :  In  this,  that  the  said  Private  Allen  Matthews,  Com- 
pany E,  Gth  Virginia  regiment,  did,  on  or  about  the  10th  day  of  May, 
1862,  near  Petersburg,  Va.,  absent  himself  from  his  company  and  regi- 
.  ment  without  leave,  and  did  remain  absent  till  arrested  and  sent  to  his 
regiment,  then  near  Fredericksburg,  .Va.,  on  or  about  the  13th  day  of 
February,  1863. 

Findlnij. 

Of  the  Specification:   Guilty. 
Of  the  Chnrge  :   Guiltyf 


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Sentence. 
To  be  sliot  to    death  with  musketry,  at   such  time    and  place  as  tho 
commanding  general  may  direct. 

II.. The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  order  of  the 
President,  are  apjiroved.  I?ut,  for  the  considerations  stated  in  the  ear- 
nest appeal  of  the  captain  of  his  company,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  in 
the  hope  that  his  future  conduct  will  prove  that  the  clemencj'  extended 
to  him  was  not  misplaced,  an<l  that  his  life,  justly  forfeited  by  his  grave 
offence,  will  be  hereafter  used  to  redeem  his  name  from  its  present 
rcpro.ach. 

Private  Matthews  will  be  released  and  returned  to  dutj-. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adiutant  olid  fiis].)ertor-(jetieral. 


GENERAL  0RDEKS.1  Adjutant  anh  Inspector-Genkral's  Offick, 

No,  79.  )  KiCHMr.xn.  June  if.  lSti3. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  camp  of  Major-Gener- 
al  R.  H.  Anderson,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  1.33,  paragraph 
II,  of  1862,  from  Head-quarters  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  was  ar- 
raigned and  tried  : 

JgPrivate  George  Mormon,  Company  C,  8th  Alabama  regiment,  on  the 
following  charges  : 

^Charge  1  ;  Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

Specification  :  In  this,  that  the  said  Private  George  MornKiU,  Com- 
pany C,  Sth  Alabama  rcgimtnt,  did  leave  his  company  and  regiment, 
while  in  line  of  battle  at  the  battle  of  Seven  Pines,  .June  1st,  1862, 
without  proper  authority,  thereby  allowing  himself  to  be  taken  prison- 
er by  the  enemy  on  the  2d  d.ay  of  .June,  1S62. 

Chnifjc  2:  Violation  of  the  22d  Article  of  War. 

Sjieeijicatioii :  In  this,  that  the  said  Private  George  Mormon,  Com- 
pany C,  Sth  Alabama  regiment,  did  leave  the  camp  or  hospital,  while  a 
paroled  prisoner  at  Riclimoml,  Va..  bef'.re  being  exchanged,  about 
August  15,  1862,  and  enlisted  in  the  marine  corps  at  Mobile,  Ala.,  un- 
der an  assumed  name,  and  drew  theret'roni  bouuly,  clothing,  etc,  to 
the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  and 
did  not  return  to  his  company  till  arrested  by  Lieutenant  W.  11.  Dunn, 


8'^ 

Company  II,    8th    Alabama  regiment,  about  the  10th  day  of  January, 
1863. 

pliiding. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charp;e:   Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the2J  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge  :   Guilty. 

Sentence, 

To  forfeit  all  pay  due  to  him,  and  to  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry, 
at  euch  time  and  place  as  the  commanding  general  may  direct. 

II.'. The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  lia\-ing  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  orders  of  the  President,  are  approved  ;  and 
so  much  of  the  sentence  as  requires  the  accused  to  be  shot  to  death 
with  musketrj'is  remitted,  in  consideration  Qf  the  earnest  recommenda- 
tion of  the  members  of  his  regiment,  and  their  assurances  that  a  reform 
in  his  character  as  a  soldier  may  be  confidently  relied  on. 

III.  .Private  Mormon  will  be  returned  to  his  regiment. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjufant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OUDERS. I  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

Xo.  so.  )  Richmond,  Jam'.  19,  1S63. 

I.  .Contractors  with  government  officers  to  supplj'  paper  are  hereby 
authorized  to  send  agents  to  the  armies  in  the  field,  and  to  military 
posts,  for  the  purpose  of  collecting  material  convertible  into  paper. 

II.  .Commanding  ofTicers  of  armies  and  military  departments  will  di- 
rect suitable  facilities  to  be  given  to  such  agents,  when  coming  certified 
by  the  officers  with  whom  the  contract  is  made,  and  will  direct  the 
Quartermaster's  department  to  furnish  transportation  to  the  nearest 
public  route  for  all  material  collected,  whenever  consistent  with  the 
interest  of  the  service. 

III.  Non-commissioned  officers  and  privates,  who  belonged  to  com- 
panies or  regiments  which  have  been  disbanded,  and  who,  on  account 
of  their  absence  on  detailed  duty,  were  not  mustered  out  of  service  with 
the  commiinds  to  which  they  were  attached,  but  were  continued  for  de- 


tailed  duty,  will  be  paid  for  the  period  of  such  detail,  upon  descriptive 
lists  prepared  and  signed  by  the  odlcor  under  whom  they  may  be  serv- 
ing. Clothing  will  be  drawn  and  issued  to  them  by  such  officer,  who 
will  keep  an  accurate  account  of  such  issues,  and  endorse  them  upon 
said  descriptive  lists.  All  such  non-commissioued  officers  and  soldiers 
within  the  conscript  age,  will  be  at  ouce  reported  to  the  nearest  enroll- 
ing officer,  who  will  take  measures  to  assign  them  to  companies.  Those 
who  are  not  liable  to  service  as  conscripts  will  be  discharged  by  order 
from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office. 

IV.. In  all  elections  of  ollicors  prescribed  by  law,  a  majority  of  all 
the  votes  cast  will  be  necessary  to  a  choice. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspecior-Grueral. 


GEXRRAT.  ORDERS.)  •       Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  81.  (  Richmond,  June  11.  1862. 

I.  .A  court  of  inquiry  having  been  convened,  by  direction  of  the  Presi- 
dent, on  the  application  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Eugene  E.  McLean,  As- 
sistant Quartermaster-General,  under  Special  Orders,  No.  282,  para- 
graph XV.  of  lSfi2,  "  to  examine  into  and  report  upon  the  conduct  of  the 
quartermaster'.^  department  of  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  while  under 
the  control  of  Lieutenant-Colonel,  then  Major,  McLean  :"  and  having 
made  the  required  examination  and  report,  the  result  is,  by  direction  of 
the  President,  published  for  the  information  iif  all  concerned. 

ri..The  court  having  iunturel;i'  considered  the  evidence  adduced, 
report,  as  the 

SrMMAKV    or    FACTS 

Regarded  by  the  court  of  inquiry  in  the  case  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  E. 
E.  McLean,  as  proved  by  the  evidence  elicited,  and  of  record: 

1.  That  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  as  commanded  by  General  Brax- 
ton Bragg,  was  an  organization  separate  and  distinct  from  the  Army 
of  the  West,  commanded  by  Major-General  Earl  Van  Dorn — both  these 
armies,  when  concentrated  at  Corinth  and  Tupelo,  being  under  General 
Beauregard,  as  commander  of  the  forces. 

2.  That  the  Army  of  the  Mis.sissippi  was  aoinposcd  of  three  army 
corps,  commanded  respectively  by  Generals  Bragg,  Polk,  and  Hardee, 
and  of  a  reserve  corps,  commanded  l)y  General  Breckinridge. 


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3.  That  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  by  the  Confedorate  forces  under 
General  Beauregard  was  first  fixed  for  the  28th  of  May,  1S62. 

4.  That  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  was  postponed  to  the  29th  of  May, 
1862. 

5.  That  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  was  accomplished  during  the  night 
of  the  29th  and  morning  of  the  30th  of  May,  1862. 

6.  That  General  Bragg  relieved  General  Beauregard  in  the  command 
of  the  forces  at  Tupelo  in  the  latter  part  of  June,  1862. 

7.  That  Lieutenant-Colonel,  then  Major,  McLean,  was  acting  as  chief 
quartermaster  of  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi  about  the  12th  of  March, 
1862. 

8.  That  Major  McLean  was  appointed  chief  quartermaster  of  the 
Army  of  the  Mississippi  by  General  A.  Sidney  Johnston  on  the  30th  of 
March,  1862. 

9.  That  Lieutenant-Colonel  McLean  was  relieved  from  duty  as  chief 
quartermaster  ofthe  forces,  by  General  Bragg,  on  the  4th  of  July,  1862, 
at  Tupelo,  Mississippi. 

10.  That  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  while  Lioutenaut-Colonel 
McLean  was  its  chief  quartermaster,  both*  at  Corinth  and  Tui)elo,  was 
amply  supplied  with  money,  clothing,  camp,  and  garrison  equipage, 
wagons,  public  animals,  field-  transportation  in  general,  and  with  all 
quartermaster's  stores,  with  the  exception  of  full  rations  of  forage  at 
Corinth,  and  of  certain  other  articles  which  were  applied  for,  and  sub- 
sequently obtained  by  the  quartermaster's  department,  or  the  parties 
requiring  them  at  the  time. 

11.  That  there  were,  throughout  the  army,  occasional  complaints  of 
the  want,  for  a  short  time,  of  certain  quartermaster's  supplies,  which 
the  evidence  shows  were  sulPicieutly  accounted  for,  or  promptly  sup- 
plied, as  far  as  possible,  and  the  circumstances  would  permit  of  its  be- 
ing done. 

12.  That  the  supply  of  forage  at  Corinth  was  sulPicicnt,  though  not 
full,  and  for  a  time  restricted  in  amount  and  kind,  owing  to  the  nature 
of  the  surrounding  country,  and  other  circumstances.  While  at  Tupelo 
it  was  ample,  the  army  then  being  located  in  the  vicinity  of  a  country 
abounding  in  forage. 

13.  That  there  was  but  little  forage  within  reach  of  Corinth  by  wagon 
transportation,  and  that  little  was  consumed  at  an  early  day  of  our 
occupation  of  that  post  and  the  adjacent  counties. 

14.  That  the  facilities  afforded  by  the  railroads  concentrating  at  that 
point,  especially  after  their  partial  abandonment  to  the  enemy,  were 
not  sufficient  for  the  trsMisportation  of  a  full  supply  of  forage  for  the 
army  at  Corinth,  and  at  the  .same  time  to  supply  that  army  with  all 
other  quartermaster,   commissary,  and   ordnance   stores  required,  and 


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at  the   same  time  inTict  the  siuMen   and  \incxpccted  demands   for  the 
transportation  of  lav;5e  niiinbors  of  tr'iops,  the  sick,  etc. 

15.  That  an  abundant  supply  of  corn,  and  as  much  long  forage  as 
could  be  found,  was  purchased  by  the  ({uartcrmaster's  department,  and 
deposited  .along  the  lines  of  the  different  railroads  for  shipment  to 
Corinth  ;  and  when  cars  could  be  obtained  they  were  generally  kept 
loaded  with  such  forage,  ready  to  be  attached  to  the  passing  trains. 

16.  That  the  railroads  were  worked  to  their  utmost  ca])acity,  but  that 
many  cases  occurred  where,  from  inaViility  to  transport  them,  the  cars 
found  readj'  loaded  with  forage  were  left  by  the  passing  trains  on  the 
side-tracks  of  the  railroads,  and  thus  detained  or  delayed  in  arriving  at 
their  place  of  destination. 

17.  That  all  side-tracks  required  for  the'cfTicieut  working  of  the  dif- 
ferent railroads  were  laid  down  by  the  quartermaster's  department 
wherever  found  insufficient  for  the  accommodation  of  the  increased 
business  of  the  railroads. 

18.  That  a  competent  military  superiutend,ent  of  the  railroads  (a  major 
in  the  quartermaster's  department)  was  selected  by  the  presidents  of 
the  railroads,  and,  with  their  concurrence,  appointed  by  General  Beau- 
regard, to  take  upon  himself  the  entire  and  exclusive  control  of  all  the 
army  transportation  by  railroad,  under  the  immediate  supervision  of 
General  Beauregard,  then  commanding  the  forces. 

19.  That  the  quartermaster's  department,  while  under  the  control  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  McLean,  established,  and  had  in  successful  opera- 
tion throughout  the  district  of  country  under  his  charge,  many  and 
extensive  manufactories  for  the  supply  of  the  army  with  quartermaster's 
stores. 

20.  That  hospitals  were  erected  and  otherwise  supplied  for  the  use  of 
the  army,  including  that  of  the  Mississippi,  and  were  in  many  instances 
furnished  and  supplied  from  the  stores  of  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment, while  under  the  control  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  ^McLean. 

21.  That  artesian  wells  were,  under  the  direction  of  Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel McLean,  successfully  bored  at  Corinth,  to  supply  the  army  at  that 
place  with  water. 

22.  That  corrals  were  established  by  the  quarlcrmaster's  department 
of  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  in  the  rear  of  the  army,  for  the  disabled 
and  worn  down-public  animals,  where  they  were,  in  large  numbers,  prop- 
erlj'  attended  and  successfully  recruited  for  the  service. 

23.  That,  for  ordinary  purposes,  a  sufficient  and  permanent  force  of 
negro  laborers  was  employed  by  the  quartermaster's  department  for 
loading  and  unloading  the  cars  at  the  railroad  depots. 

24.  That,  in  cases  of  emergency,  sutlicient  assistjinco  was  obtained  by 
details  from  the  army,  upon  the  application  of  the  parties  desiring  them, 


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as  was  tbe  case  of  the  pdst  and  ordnance  department  nt  the  evacuation 
of  Corinth. 

25.  That  there  was  a  sufficient  number  of  competent  and  efficient 
officers  of  the  quartermaster's  department  at  all  limes  at  the  railroad 
depot  at  Corinth,  to  superintend  and  control  the  railroad  transportation 
of  the  army  during  the  evacuation  of  that  place. 

25.  That  the  transportation  operations,  on  the  occasion  of  the  evacua- 
tion of  Corinth,  were  expeditiously  and  successfully  conducted  by  ener- 
getic and  competent  officers  of  the  quartermaster's  department,  assigned 
to  the  special  duty  of  superintending  the  transportation  of  army  stores 
and  troops  from  that  place  by  rail. 

27.  That  material  aid  wa.s  rendered  by  General  Bragg  aud  several 
members  of  his  staff,  and  some  members  of  the  staff  of  General  Beau- 
regard, also  by  other  officers,  as  well  as  bj'  Colonel  Benton's  regiment, 
and  other  details  from  the  army. 

28.  That  there  was  no  public  property  left  in  Corinth  upon  the  evacu- 
ation of  the  place,  except  a  few  tents  and  broken  wagons,  some  old 
harness,  and  some  few  shells  and  other  ordnance  stores ;  most  of  which 
property  appears  to  have  been  damaged  or  condemned,  or  not  worth 
the  cost  of  its  transportation  under  the  attending  circumstances. 

29.  That  there  was  a  loss  of  a  number  of  railroad  engines  and  cars 
loaded  with  army  stores,  upon  the  Memphis  and  Charleston  railroad,  ou 
the  morning  of  the  -SOth  of  May,  1862,  occasioned  by  the  burning  of  the 
railroad  bridges  across  the  Hatchie  and  Tuscumbia  rivers,  in  obedience 
to  specific  orders  given  the  officers  in  command  at  those  bridges,  to 
destroy  them  at  a  certain  hour. 

30.  That  the  quartermaster's  department  had  no  notice  that  the 
bridges  were  to  be  destroyed  ;  otherwise  the  trains  lost  might  have  been 
despatched  in  time  to  have  passed  the  bridges,  or  turned  down  the 
Mobile  and  Ohio  railroad,  and  thus  saved. 

31.  That  there  was  a  loss  of  a  train  of  cars  containing  certain  govern- 
ment property,  at  Booneville,  while  standing  on  the  track  of  the  Mobile 
and  Ohio  railroad,  on  the  morning  of  the  30th  of  May,  1862,  occasioned 
by  a  raid  of  the  enemy's  cavalry,  over  which  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment had  no  control. 

32.  That  Lieutenant-Colonel  McLean  was,  at  one  time  during  his 
administration  of  the  quartermaster's  department  of  the  Array  of  the 
Mississippi  and  other  forces,  afflicted  with,  a  disease,  which  was  local, 
and  not  of  a  nature  permanently  to  disable  him  from  attending  to  all  the 
duties  required  of  him  as  chief  of  his  department. 

33.  That,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  days  illness  at  Corinth,  about  a 
week  previous  to  the  evacuation  of  that  place,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Mc- 
Lean was  not  unable,  at  any  time  while  chief  quartermaster  of  the 


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army,  to  iitieud  lo  all  the  duties  Tfhich  were  required  of  liiiii,  and  that 
he  did  so  atteud  promptly  to  all  the  duties  devolving  upon  him  at  the 
time. 

3'1.  That  liieutonant-Colonel  McLean  is  shown  by  the  evidence  to 
Lave  been  prompt,  energetic,  efficient,  courteous,  and  considerate  in 
the  discbarge  of  his  duties  as  chief  quartermaster  of  the  army,  succes- 
sively under  (jrcnerals  Johnston,  Beauregard,  and  Bragg,  and  especially 
solicitous  for  the  welfare  and  success  of  the  department  entrusted  to 
his  charge,  and  for  which  he  was  responsible. 

OPINION'    OK    THE    COIRT. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  this  court  that,  from  the  facts  elicited  in  the  in- 
vestigation of  the  conduct  of  the  quartermaster's  department  of  the  Armj' 
of  tho  Mississippi,  while  under  the  control  of  Lieutenant-Colonel,  then 
Major,  Eugene  E.  McLean,  it  appears  that  the  department  was  managed 
with  all  the  energy,  efficienc)',  forethought,  and  success  which  could 
have  been  expected  under  the  difficult  circumstances  attending  tho  sud- 
den concentration  of  our  armies  ;  the  unexpected  occupation  by  the 
enemy  of  our  principal  fields  of  supply  ;  tho  scarcity  of  the  means  of 
field  transportation  ;  tho  inability  to  obtain  forage  within  reasonable 
reach  of  the  army  by  means  of  wagon  transportation  ;  the  failure  or 
inability  of  the  railroads  of  the  country  to  transport  from  a  distance^ 
when  purchased,  forage  to  the  army;  the  closing  of  the  great  markets 
of  New  Orleans,  Memphis,  and  Nashville:  the  interference,  by  agents 
of  other  branches  of  the  service,  with  the  departments  of  purchases  of 
forage,  and  of  transportation,  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  McLean;  the 
original  scarcitj-  throughout  the  country  of  all  supplies  needed;  tho 
continuance  of  such  scarcity  in  consequence  of  the  existing  blockade  of 
the  ports  of  the  Confederacy,  and  the  inexperience  of  nearly  all  quar- 
termaster's agents  in  tho  beginning  of  the  war. 

It  further  appears  from  the  evidence  that,  in  the  arduous  duties 
attending  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  by  the  Confederate  army  under 
General  Beauregard,  the  quartermaster's  department  was  fully  repre- 
sented by  able  and  elHeient  officers,  present  at  the  railroad  depot  day 
and  night,  and  to  their  activity  and  judgment  is  tho  successful  removal 
of  the  public  stores,  for  which  the  quartermaster's  department  was  re- 
sponsible at  that  place,  mainly  attributable.  That  the  quartermaster's 
department,  during  the  day  and  night  preceding  the  evacuation,  was 
efficiently  aided  by  the  personal  exertions  of  General  Bragg  and  several 
members  of  bis  and  General  Beauregard's  staff,  and  by  the  exertions  of 
Colonel  Benton's  regiment,  together  with  other  details    from  the  .army. 

It  also  appears  from  the  evidence  that  tho  evacuation  of  Corinth,  so 
far  as  the  quartermaeter's  department  was  concerned,  was  a  complete 


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military  success,  anrl  that  although  so  short  a  time  was  alloweil  to  re- 
move the  stores,  but  little  property  was  lost,  and  that  but  of  small 
value,  being  mostly  worthless  or  condemned  stores.  The  severe  losses 
of  the  engines  and  cars,  together  with  the  public  property  contained  in 
the  latter,  destroye<l  on  the  morning  of  the  evacuation  on  tlie  llatchie 
and  Tuscumbia  bridges,  on  the  Memphis  and  Charleston  railroad,  by 
our  troops,  and  on  the  Mobile  and  Ohio  railroad,  at  Booneville,  by  a 
raid  of  the  enemy's  cavalry,  are  shown,  from  the  evidence,  to  be  in  no 
way  attributable  to  the  quartermaster's  department. 

The  court  is  also  of  opinion  that  the  investigation  has  further  shown 
that,  in  the  conduct  of  the  department  committed  to  his  charge,  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel McLean  was  prompt,  energetic,  and  ellicient  in  the  dis- 
charge of  all  the  duties  of  his  office  while  chief  quartermaster  of  the 
army,  and  that  while  in  the  execution  of  those  duties,  his  instructions 
to  and  teachings  of  his  subordinates  contributed  much  to  the  success 
attendant  on  their  exertions,  and  to  the  introduction  and  maintenance 
of  the  proper  system  and  order  in  the  various  branches  of  the  depart- 
ment entrusted  to  his  supervision  and  control. 

III.. The  court  of  inquiry,  of  which  Colonel  M.  Lewis  Clark  was 
president,  is  hereby  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  '.(lid  Itt^j^ectoi -General. 


GENERAL  ORDEIiS,  j  Adjutant  and  iNsrECToii-fJENKRAL's  Office, 

No.  82.  f  KicHMOND  June  12.  1863. 

The  second  section  of  the  act  entitled  An  act  to  organize  partisan 
rangers,  provides  that  such  partisan  rangers,  after  being  regularly 
received  into  service,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  paj',  rations,  and 
quarters,  during^  their  term  of  service,  and  be  subject  to  the  same  regu- 
lations, as  other  soldiers.  The  irregularities  reported  to  this  depart- 
ment as  having  been  committed  by  such  corps,  renders  it  proper  that 
these  corps  shall  bo  placed  under  stricter  regulations  than  those  here- 
tofore adopted.  The  generals  commanding  the  departments  in  wliich 
they  are  serving  are  hereby  authorized  to  combine  them  into  battalions 
and  regiments,  with  the  view  to  bringing  them  under  the  same  regula- 
tions as  other  soldiers,  in  reference  to  their  discipline,  position,  and 
movements;  and  the  same  officers  will  recommend  any  further  meas- 
ures for  their  organization  as  an  integral  portion  of  their  commands 


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as  will,  iu  their  opinion,  promote  their  efficiency  and  the  interests  of 
the  service.  The  general  of  the  (Upjiitnicnt  will  recommend  field  offi- 
cers for  the  organizations  that  maj'  be  made,  to  be  submitted  for  the 
consideration  of  tlie  President.  Such  partisan  corps  as  are  serving 
■within  the  enemy's  lines  are,  for  the  present,  excepted  from  this  order. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  (Old  Iiitipeclor'GeiteraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  |  Adjutant  and  lNsrECTOR-GEN£nAi.'s  Office, 

No.  83.  )  Richmond.  June  13, 1863. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Shelbyville,  Tennessee, 
by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  6.3,  March  16,  186."?,  from  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-General's  office,  Richmond,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Major-GeneralJohu  P.  McCoun,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  following  charge 
and  specification  : 

Charge:  Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military  disci- 
pline. 

Specijlcution  1 :  In  this,  that  Major-General  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A. 
C.  S.,  being  in  command  of  a  division  serving  with  "Army  of  Tennes- 
see," did,  without  authority,  order,  through  his  staff  officer,  Major 
Bradford,  Assistant  Adjutant-General,  Captain  Olhson,  A.  C.  S.,  4th 
Arkansas  regiment,  "  to  go  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  such  other  points 
as  may  be  necessary,"  when  the  said  Major-General  John  P.  McCoun. 
P.  A.  C.  S.,  knew  that  such  details  were  not  nuthorized.  All  this  at 
Shclbyvijie,  Tennessee,  on  or  before  the  3d  day  of  February,  1863. 

Specification  2:  In  this,  that  Major-General  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A. 
C.  S.,  commanding  division,  did,  through  his  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  Major  Bra<lford,  issue  the  said  order  to  Major  Olhson,  A.  C. 
S.,  4th  Arkansas  regiment,  tj  proceed  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  other 
points,  wlien  he,  tlic  said  ;Miijor-Gcneral  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A.  C.  S., 
had,  but  a  short  time  previous,  received  and  acknowledged  the  receipt 
of  an  official  communication  from  the  commanding  general  of  Depart- 
ment No.  2,  requiring  an  explanation  in  regard  to  his  detailing  officers 
and  enlisted  men  to  go  from  his  (McCouu's)  division,  out  of  the  lines  of 
the  army.  All  this  at  Shelbyvillo,  Tennessee,  on  or  about  the  3d  day 
of  February,  1803. 

II.  .Findi'ntf  avd  Sentence  of  the   Court. 
After  maturely  considering  the  evidence  adduced,  the  court  find  the 


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accused,  Major-Oeneral  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  as  follows,  to 
wit : 

Of  the  1st  Specification:  Guilty. 

Of  the  2cl  Specification  :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  do  sentence  him  to  be  suspended  from  all  rank,  pay,  and  emolu- 
ments for  the  space  of  six  months,  and  that  he  be  reprimanded  in 
General  Orders,  by   the  officer  reviewing  the  proceedings  of  this  court. 

III.  .The  proceedings,  findings,  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  before  the 
President,  and  having  been  duly  considered,  the  same  are  approved, 
and  the  sentence  of  the  court  will  be  carried  into  effect.  Major-General 
John  P.  MeCoun  is  therefore  suspended  from  rank,  pay,  emoluments, 
and  command  for  six  months  from  this  date. 

IV.. The  general  court  martial  convened  by  General  Orders,  No.  63, 
Adjutant  and    Inspector-General's  ofiice,  and  of  which  Major- General 
J.  M.  Withers  is  president,  is  hereby  dissolved. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspectok-Qenekal's  Office, 

No.  84.  j  Richmond,  Jmic  15,  1863. 

I.. Ordnance  ofllcers  on  duty  in  the  field  do  not  form  a  part  of  the 
personal  stafif  of  the  commanding  general. 

II.. Chiefs  of  ordnance  of  armies  and  departments  will  be  assigned 
by  the  War  department,  and  will  not  be  removed,  except  on  orders 
through  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office. 

III.. Other  ordnance  officers  will  continue  to  serve  with  the  com- 
mands to  which  they  are  attached  until  relieved  by  orders  from  the 
head-quarters  of  the  army  or  department  in  which  they  are  serving. 
Copies  of  orders  assigning  or  relieving  ordnance  ollicers  will  be  for- 
warded to  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  bureau  at  Richmond. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutatit  and  Infpector-General, 


91 

OENERAL  ORDERS,^  Adjutant  asd  Inspector-General's  Opfiie. 

No.  86.  J  Richmond.  June  16, 18C3. 

I.. The  following  act  of  Congress,  and  the  regulations  adopted  by 
the  department  in  pursuance  thereof,  are  published  for  the  informa- 
tion of  all  concerned  : 

AN    ACT    TO    ESTABLISH    A    NITRE    AND    Ml.NMNG    BUREAr. 

"  Section  1.  The  Conr/rcsn  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact,  That 
the  officers  authorized  and  appointed  under  the  act  entitled  An  act  for 
the  organization  of  a  corps  of  officers  for  the  working  of  nitre  cave.», 
etc.,  passed  April  11,  1862,  together  with  such  additional  officers  as  are 
authorized  by  ihc  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  constitute  an  independent 
bureau  of  the  War  department,  to  be  entitled  '  The  Nitre  and  Mining 
bureau.' 

"Sec  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  bureau  shall  have  charge  of 
all  the  duties  prescribed  in  the  second  section  of  said  act,  and  shall,  be- 
side, be  charged  with  all  duties  and  expenditures  connected  with  the 
mining  of  iron,  cojiper,  lead,  coal,  etc.,  so  far  as  it  shall  be  deemed 
necessary  to  supply  the  military  neces.sities  of  the  country;  and  the 
superintendent  thereof  shall,  under  the  Secretary  of  War,  have  full 
power  to  make  such  leases  of  real  estate  and  purchases  of  fixtures  as  are 
necessary  or  appurtenant  to  any  mines  it  may  be  deemed  expedient  J^> 
open  or  work  on  governinent  account;  and  may  also  contract,  subject 
to  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  such  supplies,  by  purchase 
or  otherwise,  of  all  copper,  load,  iron,  coal,  zinc,  and  such  other  miner- 
als, as  may  be  required  for  the  prosecution  of  the  war. 

"Sec.  .1.  lie  it  further  enacted,  That  said  bureau  shall  consist  of  one 
lieuteuaut-cnloncl  as  superintendent:  three  majors  as  assistant  super- 
intendents :  six  captains  and  ten  lieutenants,  in  which^shall  be  includ- 
ed the  oCicos  of  the  present  nitre  corps,  who  shall  have  the  same  pay 
and  allowances  prescribed  for  officers  of  cavalry  of  the  same  grades." 
[Approved  April  22,  IStj:^.] 

II.  .The  Secretary  of  War  is  of  opinion  that  it  is  necessary  to  accu- 
mulate supplies  of  iron,  in  the  various  military  departments,  for  the 
repair  of  railroads,  the  manufacture  of  arms,  munitions,  a'nd  materials  of 
war,  and  for  the  operations  of  the  qnartcrmasier's,  ordnance,  and  en- 
gineer departments,  and  that  experience  has  shown  that  the  necessary 
supplj'  can  not  be  obtained  by  purchase.  Impres.<ment,  therefore,  ac- 
cording to  the  act  of  Congress  relating  to  impressments,  has  become 
necessary  to  secure  n  supply.  It  is  ord'>rcd  that  all  impressments  that 
may  be  ma<le  of  iron  for  thi.i  purpo.se,  shall  be  conducted  by  the  chiefs 


in 

of  the  quartermaster's,  ordnance,  engineer,  and  nitro  and  mining  bu- 
reaus, or  by  otficers  designated  by  them,  who  shall  in  every  instance 
communicate  to  the  owner  the  necessity  that  exists  for  the  use  of  the 
property,  the  disposition  of  the  officers  to  purchase  the  same,  and  an 
offer  to  purchase  it  at  a  price  to  be  ascertained  in  accordance  with  the 
act  relating  to  impressments,  if  the  parties  can  not  agree  upon  the 
same. 

III.. And  whereas  the  existing  necessity  for  iron  in  the  departments 
aforesaid,  and  for  the  good  of  the  public  service,  is  such  that  all  prac- 
ticable measures  must  be  taken  to  secure  an  adequate  supply,  it  is  fur- 
ther ordered  that,  whenever  it  may  become  necessary  to  secure  the  full 
product  of  any  mine  or  manufactory',  that  the  same  shall  be  worked  for 
the  sole  benefit  of  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States.  It  shall 
be  competent  to  the  chief  of  either  of  the  departments  aforesaid  to  lease 
or  purchase  the  same;  and  in  case  that  the  lease  or  purchase  is  im- 
practicable, then  they  are  authorized  to  impress  the  same  for  the  use 
of  the  Confederate  States  during  the  war,  or  while  such  necessity  shall 
continue. 

IV.. That  proceedings  under  these  orders  will  be  conducted  under 
the  4th  section  of  the  act  concerning  impressments,  and  in  pursuance 
o^the  directions  contained  in  paragraph  I. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inepector-Generul. 


GENEKAL  0RDK11S,">  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genekal's  Ofhcb, 

No.  S(i.  f  Richmond,  June  -21, 1863. 

^Vhercas,  there  have  been  a  number  of  aiiplications  to  this  department 
for  authority  to  raise  companies  for  local  defence  and  special  service, 
and  for  instructions  as  to  the  method  by  which  such  organizations  may 
lie  made,  and  the  privileges  they  may  claim,  the  department  lias  adopt- 
ed the  following  regulations  on  the  subject: 

I.  .Companies,  battalions,  and  regiments,  composed  of  persons  not 
within  the  age  of  conscription  (eighteen  and  forty),  will  be  accepted  as 
volunteers  throughout  the  Confederacy,  under  the  act  of  August  21, 
1861  (No.  229),  for  local  defence  and  special  service. 


II..  The  organization  of  corps  for  local  defence  must  conform  to  that 
prescribed  for  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments  of  the  provisional 
army.  The  minimum  number  for  a  company  of  infantry  is  sixty-four 
rank  and  file,  and  for  cavalry  sixty.  Battalions  must  consist  of  not 
less  than  five  companies,  and  regiments  of  ten.  Artillery  is  not  desir- 
able. Members  of  cavalry  companies  must  furnish  their  own  horses, 
but  will  receive  forty  cents  perday  for  their  use  while  in  .actual  service. 

III..TI1C  musler  ri.U  of  all  .•;uch  organizations  shall  specify  that  the 
said  organizations  are  raised  under  this  act,  and  subject  to  these  regu- 
lations, and  contain  a  description  of  the  volunteer  as  to  age,  residence, 
and  date  of  enlistment,  and  the  term  of  enlistment  for  the  war. 

IV.. Such  organizations  will  not  be  considered  as  in  actual  service, 
for  the  purpose  of  receiving  pay  or  subsistence,  except  when  called  for 
by  the  President. 

A'.. They  will  not  be  called  for  until  a  necessity  arises  for  service. 
They  shall  not  be  reriuired  to  go  beyond  the  limits  of  the  State  to  which 
they  belong. 

VI.. They  are  expected  to  serve,  when  called  out,  only  so  long  as  the 
emergency  exists,  and  then  to  return  to  their  ordinary  pursuits  until 
again  called. 

VII.. Arms  and  equipments,  when  not  possessed  by  the  members, 
will,  to  the  extent  necessary  to  supply,  be  furnished  by  the  Confederate 
States. 

VIII.  .Should  any  of  them  lie  captured,  they  shall  be  claimed  as  pris- 
oners of  war,  and  all  the  protection  of  the  government  will  be  extend- 
ed to  them. 

IX.. Field  officers  of  battalions  and  regiments  to  be  organized,  will 
be  appointed  by  the  President,  in  accordance  with  the  act  aforesaid. 
Company  ofiiccrs  may  be  elected  by  the  companies,  or  appointed,  as  the 
members  may  consent. 

X..That  these  organizati'>ns  will  be  preferred  to  and  exempt  their 
members  from  any  call  of  militia. 

XI.  .The  eomman<lant  of  any  military  post  of  the  Confederate  Stat-cs. 
the  sherifT  of  any  county,  or  the  colonel  commanding  any  militia  rcgi- 


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mmit,  or  the  .jud;^e  or  justice  of  any  county  or  other  court,  may  certify 
and  return  the  muster  rolls,  which  must  bo  sent  to  the  Adjutant  and 
Inspector-General's  office  at  Richmond,  for  acceptance. 

XII.  .In  the  event  of  a  call  by  the  President,  uniler  the  law  of  con- 
scription, on  all  between  the  ages  of  forty  and  forty-five,  those  in  said 
organizations  subject  to  such  call  will  be  liable  to  discharge  or  transfer. 

For  the  information  and  guidance  of  those  desirous  of  volunteering 
for  local  defence,  the  law  of  August  21,  1861,  is  hereto  appended. 

A.N    ACT   TO    PROVIDE    FOR   LOCAL    DEFENCE    AND    SPECIAL   SORVICE. 

"  Suction  1.  The  Congress'of  the  Conf<'devalc  States  of  America  do 
enact,  That  the'President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  accept  the 
services  of  volunteers  of  such  kind  and  in  such  proportion  as  he  may 
deem  expedient,  to  serve  for  such  time  as  he  may  prescribe,  for  the  de- 
fence of  exposed  places  or  localities,  or  such  special  service  as  he  mny 
deem  expedient. 

"  SiiC.  2.  And  such  forces  shall  be  mustered  into  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States  for  the  local  defence  or  special  service  aforesaid,  the 
muster  roll  setting  forth  distinctly  the  services  to  bo  performed,  and 
the  said  volunteers  shall  not  be  considered  in  actual  service  until 
thereunto  specially  ordered  by  the  President,  and  they  shall  be  enti- 
tled to  pay  or  subsistence  only  for  such  time  as  they  may  be  on  duty 
under  the  orders  of  the  President,  or  by  his  direction. 

"  Sec  .3.  Such  volunteer  forces,  when  so  accepted  and  ordered  into  ser- 
vice, shall  be  organized  in  accordance  wiTh  and  subject  to  all  the  j)rovis- 
ions  of  the  act  entitled  An  act  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,  ap- 
proved March  6,  18G1,  and  may  bo  attached  to  such  divisions,  brigades, 
regiments,  or  battalions  as  the  President  may  direct,  and  when  not  or- 
ganized into  battalions  or  regiments  before  being  mustered  into  service, 
the  President  .shall  appoint  the  field  officers  'of  the  battalions  or  regi- 
ments, when  organized  as  such  by  hiin."  [Approved  August  21,  1861.] 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Insjiector-General. 


OENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspectoh-General's  Officb, 

No.  87.  )  lUciiMONP,  June  23,  1863. 

The  following  forms  for  the  onli.stment  of  sub-xtitutes,  and  the  di.s- 
eharge  of  soldiers  presenting  the  same,  will  hereafter  be  observed: 


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(DPPLICATES.) 

ARMY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 
Application/or  discharge  on  account  of  having  fnrnhhed  a  snhatittite. 

,  of  Captain   coinpaiij'  ( ),  of   tho  regi- 
ment of  the  Confedci-ato  States  araiy ,  was  enlisted  by ,  of 

the regiment  of  ,  at  ,  on  the day  of 

1S6 — ,  to  serve years,  and  not  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  a 

substitute.     He  was  born  in ,  in  the  Slate  of  ,  is  

years  of  age, feet inches  high, complexion. 

eyes, hair,  and  by  occupation  when  enlisted  a . 

I  hereby  certify  that  said  soldier  has  furnished  an  able-bodied  man, 

well  clothed,  in   the  person  of  ,  as  his  substitute,  whom   I  am 

willing  to  receive,  being  satisfied  that  the  substitute  is  not  now  liable 
to  conscription,  by  reason  of 


Station"  ; 
Dati;  :  - 


Covimnndinij  Coinptiin). 

I  certify  that  I  have  carefully  examined  the  said ■.  and  tind  Iiim 

sound,  and  in  all  respects  fit  for  military  service. 


Surgeon  P.  A.   V.  >S'. 
Discharged,  this day  of 18G — ,  at . 


Contmanding  Battalion  or  Regitncnt. 

I  hereby  declare  on  oath  that  I  am  a  resident  of  the  Stale  of ,  of 

the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  a  citizen  thereof;  that  I  am 

years  of  age ;  have  not  received  from  or  paid  to  any  agent  money 

inducing  me  to  enlist  as  n  substitute,  and  am  not  a  member  of  any  com- 
pany whatever. 


Sworn  to  before  me,  on  ibis day  of  1^6 — . 


/.  P.  or  X.  P. 
Approved  : 


('oiiniiandi)ig  lieyinicnt. 


(ift 

HlSAD-QnAKTlOl!?, 

■ ,  186- 

Discbarge  a^jprovecl. 


General  Com m a n dinrj. 


SOLDIER'S  DISCHARGE. 

To   ALL  AVHOM  IT  MAY  COXCEIiN  : 

Know  Ye,  That  ,  a of  Captain compauy, 

regiment  of  ,  who  was  enli.-tcd  the  clay  of  


thousand  eight  hundred  and  ,  to  serve  ,  is  hereby  hoxou- 

AELY  discharged  from  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States,  by  reason  of 

his  having  fuj^ished  a  substitute  in  the  person  of ,  a  citizen  of 

the  Confederate  States  of  America,  years  of  age,  as  shown  by 

affidavit  on  file,  who  has  been  examined  by  a  surgeon  of  the  command, 
and  found  duly  qualified  to  perform  the  duties  of  a  soldier.  I  certify 
that  he  is  the  only  substitute  received  in  the  company  during  the  pres- 
ent mouth,  and  that  the  principal  was  not  enlisted  for  the  purpose  of 
furnishing  a  substitute. 

Said was  born  in ,  in  the  State  of ,  is j'ears 

of  age,  feet inches  high, complexion, eyes, 

hair,  and  by  occupation  when  enlisted  a . 

Given  at •,  this day,  of 186 — . 

•  'j    # 

Go mmmiduig  licgim ent. 
Approved  : 


Generid  C'»n.ni((iid!ii<j  Armij  {or  Department). 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


HAL  OHDEUS   I 

No.  88.  f 


OEXERAIi  OHDEUS  )  Adjutaxt  ajjd  In-si-ector-General's  Office, 

Richmond,  June  24.  1863. 


Operators  on  telegraph  lines,  established  by  military  commanders  for 
military  purposes,  will  be  allowed  payment  for  their  services,  not  to  ex- 
ceed the  rate  of  compensation  fixed  and   allowed   by  the  Postmaster- 
General  to  the  operators  under  his  control. 
By   order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  InHp<:<tor-Genernl. 


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QENERAI,  ORDERS,  J  AnJUTAjfT  axd  iNSPECToR-GEyERAi's  Office, 

No.  89.  )  RicnMO.VD,  J"Mne25, 1863. 

All  discbarges  for  disability  will  be  hold  as  conditional,  dependent 
upon  the  disability,  and  valid  only  during  its  continuance.  If,  on  ex- 
amination, the  disability  is  at  any  time  found  to  have  ceased,  the  holders 
will  be  liable  to  conscription,  to  serve  the  unexpired  terms  of  their 
enlistments.  This  regulation  applies  to  substitutes,  whether  under  or 
over  the  age  of  conscription.  Their  services  are  due  for  the  war,  and 
the  government  should  not  be  depri\e<l  of  them  for  what  proves  to  bo 
a  temporary  disabilitj'. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adj}i!nnt  nnd  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutaxt  and  iNsPECTOR-GEyERAi'R  Office, 

No.  90.  j  Richmond,  June, 26, 1863. 

I..  The  senior  officer  of  engineers  serving  with  an  armj'  in  the  field 
will  be  held  responsible  for  the  proper  e.xecution  of  all  duties  appertain- 
ing to  his  department;  and  the  orders  of  the  commanding  general 
relating  to  the  engineer  service  will  bo  communicated  through  him,  and 
he  will  recommend  to  the  general  commanding  the  assignments  of 
junior  officers  of  engineers  to  serve  with  corps,  divisions,  and  brigades. 
The  engineer  officer  of  highest  rank  in  each  assignment  will  receive 
the  orders  of  his  immediate  commander,  report  to  him  whatever  con- 
cerns the  engineer  service,  and  communicate  to  him  the  orders  he 
receives  from  the  .senior  engineer.  He  will  also  report  to  the  senior  en- 
gineer all  his  operations,  with  sketches,  drawings,  and  maps,  for  the 
information  of  the  commanding  general,  and  for  transmission  to  the 
Engineer  bureau. 

II..  .All  officers  of  engineers,  and  employees  under  the  Engineer  de- 
partment, will  communicate  through  the  proper  channels  with  the  senior 
engineer  serving  with  the  army  in  the  field,  be  responsible  to  him  for 
all  public  funds  and  property  in  their  hands,  and  receive  his  orders  and 
instructions. 

III.. The  duties  of  officers  of  engineers  serving  with  the  armies  of 
the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  camp,  or  cantonment,  areas  follows, 
viz  :  To  make  reoonnoisBancos  and  surveys  of  the  eoctions  of  country 
I 


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occiipied  by  (lur  forces,  and,  as  far  ns  possible,  of  the  countr3'  beld  by 
the  enemy,  embracing  all  tlie  information  that  can  be, obtained  in  refer- 
ence to  roads,  bridges,  ffrds,  topographical,  and  military  features,  the 
character  and  dimensions  of  the  water -courses,  the  prnctienbilty  of 
constructing  fixed  and  floating  bridges,  the  extent  of  wooded  and  cleared 
lands,  and  the  capacity  of  tlie  countr}'  to  supply  the  general  wants  of 
the  army  ;  to  make  detailed  exarainalions  and  survej's  of  positions  to 
be  occupied  for  defensive  purposes;  to  select  the  sites,  and  form  plans, 
projects,  and  estimates  for  all  military  works,  defensive  or  offensive,  viz  : 
field  forts,  batteries,  rifle-pits,  lines  of  iufHntr3^  cover,  military  trenches, 
parallels,  saps,  mines,  and  other  works  of  attack  and  siege;  also,  works 
for  obstructing  ri\  ers  and  harbors :  to  prepare  such  maps  and  plans  as 
will  give  a  full  knowledge  of  the  ground  and  proposed  works,  and  sub- 
mit the  same  to  the  commanding  general  for  his  information  and  con- 
sideration, and  forward,  through  the  proper  channels,  copies  of  all 
reports,  memoirs,  estimates,  plans,  drawings,  and  models  relating  to  the 
duties  above  enumerated,  to  the  Engineer  bureau  at  Richmond. 

IV.. The  locations  and  plans  for  the  works  being  thus  determined, 
they  will  be  marked  out  on  the  ground  by  the  engineers,  who  will  indi- 
cate, by  stakes,  lines,  profiles,  and  other  guides,  the  shape  and  dimen- 
sions of  the  different  parts,  for  the  information  and  government  of  those 
who  direct  the  troops  or  laborers  employed  to  do  the  work.  When 
troops  are  detailed  to  construct  temporary  defences,  they  will  be  in 
all  cases,  commanded  by  their  oflicers,  who  will  see  that  the  work  is  done 
in  exact  conformity  to  the  plans  and  directions  of  the  officer  of  engi- 
neers, without  regard  to  rank. 

V.  .When  an  officer  of  engineers  is  charged  with  directing  an  expedi- 
tion, or  making  a  reconnoissance  requiring  the  support  of  an  escort,  , 
without  having  command  of  the  troops,  ho  will  call  on  the  commander 
of  the  escort  to  move  with  and  extend  to  him  all  protection  necessary 
to  secure  the  success  of  the  operation. 

VI.  .Officers  of  engineers  will  not  assume  nor  be  ordered  on  any  duty 
beyond  the  line  of  their  immediate  profession,  except  by  special  order 
cif  the  President.  In  the  operations  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate 
States,  all  that  appertains  to  the  science  of  civil  or  military  engineering 
will  bo  assigned  by  commanders  to  the  officers  of  engineers  serving 
with  their  forces ;  and  with  them  will  rest  the  responsibility  of  a  proper 
execution  of  the  works.  The  labor  will  bo  performed,  if  possible,  by 
details  of  troops  commanded  by  their  officers  ;  in  other  cases,  by  hired 
labor,  under  the  control  of  overseers  employed  by  the  engineer  officers. 


99 

VII.  .Officers  of  engineers  will  not  be  required  to  give  other  supervi- 
sion to  the  fatigue  parties  or  laborers  employed  in  tlie  construction  of 
works  than  is  necessary  to  indicate,  in  a  clear  and  distinct  manner,  to 
those  directing  the  labor,  their  plans,  and  the  character  of  the  work  to 
be  done. 

VIII.. The  senior  officer  of  engineers  serving  with  a  commanding 
general  in  the  field  will  transmit  to  the  Engineer  bureau  at  Richmond 
the  reports,  plans,  and  journals  called  for  by  paragraph  478,  Army 
Regulations.  , 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gnncral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS."!  Adjutant  and  IxsPECTOR-GEXKnAL's  Offiojj, 

No-  91-  j  Richmond.  June  27,  1863. 

I.. Before  the  military  court  attached  to  Lieutcnant-General  Long- 
street's  corps  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Lieutenant-Colonel  C.  C.  Flowcrrce,  7th  Virginia  infantry: 
Charge  :   Drunkenness  on  duty. 
(The  specification  is  omitted  as  unnecessary.) 
Find  in  ff. 

The  court  do  affirm  the  plea  of  the  accused,  and  find  him  as  follows, 
viz  : 

Of  the  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge:  Guilty. 

Sentence. 

To  be  cashiered,  and  dismissed  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States. 
Recommendation  of  the  Court. 

The  undersigned,  the  members  of  the  military  court  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  respectfully  represent  to  Lieuten- 
ant-General  Longstrcet,  and  through  him  to  the  President,  that  they 
have  come  to  the  judgment  rendered  iu  this  case  with  reluctance. 
Though  it  may  be  true  that  this  court  is  vested  with  all  the  powers  pos- 
sessed by  the  special  court  of  inquiry,  as  it  is  termed,  appointed  by 
act  of  the  Confederate  Congress,  .approved  21st  April,  18G2,  and  vested, 
therefore,  with  the  discretion  at.  to  drunkenness  in  officers  possessed   by 


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that  court,  tl.ey  yet  are  of  the  opinion  that  that  court  possessed  no  dif- 
cretion  as  to  the  punishment  of  officers  for  drunkenness  "on  duty." 
The  45th  Article  of  AVar  prescribes  that  officers  so  offending  shall  be 
cashiered;  and,  as  that  article  is  not  repealed  in  terms,  nor  by  neces- 
sary implication,  in  the  said  act  of  the  21 3t  April,  they  conceive  that 
that  article  is  still  the  rule  of  punishment  for  such  offences  ;  but,  as  be- 
fore stated,  they  have  come  to  that  conclusion  with  reluctance.  They 
find  many  inducements  to  a  milder  sentence.  They  find  that  the  sea- 
son and  the  service  were  so  severe  as  to  excuse,  to  some  extent,  the  use 
of  ardent  spirits.  They  find  that  the  "  duty  "  upon  which  this  officer  was 
ono-aged  was  not  such  as  to  require  any  special  exercise  of  care,  con- 
duet,  or  capacity;  and  they  find  that  he  has  established  a  character 
which  is  abundant  of  promise  to  the  service  and  the  state.  For  these 
reasons,  therefore,  they  would  have  imposed  a  milder  sentence,  and 
especially  would  not  have  deprived  the  Confederacy  of  his  further  ser- 
vices in  the  line  of  his  profession.  But  in  the  absence,  as  they  conceive, 
of  such  discretion,  they  can  only  commend  him  to  the  clemency  of  the 
Executive,  which  tboy  hope  may  be  exercised  in  such  abatement  of  this 
sentence,  at  least,  as  will  restore  him  to  his  command. 

II.. The  proceedings,  finding,  and  sentence  in  this  case  having 
been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  final  order  of  the  Presi- 
dent, the  following  decision  has  been  rendered  : 

The  view  taken  by  the  court  as  to  the  effect  of  the  45th  Article  of 
War  in  such  cases  as  it  provides  for,  is  concurred  in ;  and  the  proceed- 
ings, finding,  and  sentence  of  the  court  are,  therefore,  approved.  But, 
in  considerationof  the  recommendation  of  the  court,  and  Lieutenant- 
General  Longstrect,  and  the  gallantry  and  good  character  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  riowerree,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  be  will  return  to  duty. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjuta)it  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  0RDERS,1  Adjutant  and  Ikspector-General's  Office, 

No.  92.  j  Richmond,  Jtuie  29,  1863. 

I.  .The  acts  of  Congress,  passed  on  the  6th  of  April,  1863,  and  dates 
.subsequent  thereto,  having  provided  the  moans  of  procuring  army  sup- 
plies, notice  is  hereby  given  to  the  people  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
.to  receiving  oflicers,  that,  from  the  date  of  this  publication,  no  more 
quartermaster's  supplies  will  be  received  under  the  appeal  made  by  the 
President,  and  the  plan  of  the  Secretary  of  War  annexed  thereto.     All 


«    i 


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such  BUpplies.  collected  or  tendered  prior  to  the  time  above  referred  to, 
will  be  paid  for  at  estnblished  rates.  Hereafter,  supplies  will  be  ob- 
tained, as  far  as  practicable,  by  purchase,  and,  when  necessary,  by  im- 
pressment;  and  officers,  when  authorized  to  resort  to  impressment,  will 
observe  strictlj'  the  requirements  of  law,  and  the  General  Orders  of 
the  War  department,  and  the  regulations  of  this  office  founded  thereon. 

IT.  .That  any  officer  who  shall  be  authorized,  by  the  act  of  Congress 
concerning  impressments,  or  under  the  regulations  of  this  department 
pursuant  thereto,  which  have  been  or  m.ay  hereafter  be  made,  and  who 
has  given  the  notice  required  by  the  same,  shall  have  full  power  and 
authority  to  enter  upon  any  property  in  which  he  shall  have  good  rea- 
son to  suspect  any  of  the  articles  of  produce,  goods,  merchandise,  or 
Other  things  subject  to  impressment,  may  be  stored  or  concealed,  in 
order  to  obtain  or  secure  the  same  :  and  if  he  shall  have  reason  to  be- 
lieve that  they  are  stored  or  concealed  in  any  dwelling-house,  stores 
house,  or  other  building  to  which  he  is  refused  access,  he  may  apply 
to  any  judge,  justice  of  the  peace,  or  commissioner  of  a  Confederate 
court,  for  a  warrant  to  enter  upon  the  same,  upon  oath  of  the  fact*, 
and  describing  the  objects  stored  or  concealed,  and  obtain  a  warrant 
to  search  for  and  secure  the  same,  which  warrant  shall  only  be  execut- 
ed in  the  daytime,  and  after  a  demand  of  the  owner  or  occupant,  if  the 
owner  or  occupant  shall  then  be  inhabiting  the  building  aforesaid. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


QENEKAL  ORDERS.  1  Adjutant  and  Inspectou-Genehal's  Office, 

No.  93.  j  Richmond.  J%ine  30, 1863. 

Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  49,  current  series,  is  so  amended 
that  the  appraisement  of  deceased  soldier's  clothing  shall  be  made  after 
it  has  been  washed  and  put  in  condition  by  the  quartermaster,  and  will 
approximate  to  the  government  prices  or  rates  at  which  it  was  origi- 
nally issued. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General, 


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GKNERAli  ORDERS."!  Adjutant  and  Ixspectou-Gkneral's  Offick, 

No.  94.  j  Richmond,  July  4,  1863. 

Information  having  been  received  that  soldiers,  absent  from  their 
commands  without  proper  authority,  are  employed  by  oflicers  in  charge 
of  government  work,  it  is  hereby  directed  that  all  such  men  be  returned 
immediately  to  their  respective  companies.  Officers,  who  employ  men 
not  regularly  detailed,  will,  in  every  instance,  be  held  answerable  for 
the  offence  before  a  court  martial. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inapector-Ganeral. 


HAL  ORDERS, "I 
No.  95.  J 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Ofpici, 

Richmond,  July  7,  1863. 


I.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  camp  of  Brigadier- 
General  Paxton,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  128,  of  1862,  per 
Head-quarters  Department  of  Northern  Virginia,  was  arraigned  and 
tried  : 

Private  M.  Ricket,  Company  H,  27th  Virginia  infantrj',  ou  the  fol- 
lowing charge : 

Charge  :  Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

II.. Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  camp  of  Briga- > 
dier-General  F.  Lee's  brigade,   by   virtue  of  General   Orders.  No.  12, 
current  series,  from  Head-quarters  Department  of  Northern  Virginia, 
were  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Privates  Wm.  G.  Clarke  and  J.  R.  Humphreys,  of  Captain  Buathed's 
battery,  Stuart's  horse  artillery,  on  the  following  charge : 

Charge:  Violation  of  the  23d  Article  of  'War. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  :   Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 


Sentenne. 
To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

III.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  camp  of  Major- 
General  R.  11.  Anderson's  division,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No. 
133,  of  1862,  per  Hoad-quartors  Department  of  Northern  Virginia,  was 
arraigned  and  tried  : 

Private  .John  Q.  ChiUires,  Company  G,  5th  Florida  regiment,  on  tho 
following  charge  : 

Charge :  Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  :   Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  bo  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

IV.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Savannah,  Georgia, 
by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  61,  current  series,  Head-quarters  De- 
partment of  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  and  Florida,  was  arraigned  and 
tried : 

Private  Henry  Smith,  Company  E,  22d  battalion  Georgia  artillery 
on  the  following  charge  : 

Charge  :  Violation  of  tho  46th  Article  of  War. 

Finding. 
Of  tho  Specification:  Guilty.  i 

Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

V.  .The  proceedings  in  the  cases  of  Privates  M.  Ricket,  Company  H, 
27th  Virginia  infantry;  William  G.  Clarke,  and  J.  R.  Humphreys,  of 
Captain  Buathed's  battery,  Stuart's  horse  artillery  ;  John  Q.  Childrcs, 
Company  G,  5th  Florida  regiment,  and  Henry  Smith,  Company  E,  22d 
battalion  Georgia  artillery,  having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of 
■War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  the  following  orders  are  made 
thereon  : 

The  several  Articles  of  War,  with  the  violation  of  which  the  above- 
named  are  respectively  charged,  neither  prescribe  any  duty  or  define  and 
prohibit  any  offence.     They  simply  pronounce  punishments  to  be  im 


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posed  for  certain  offences.  The  charge  of  a  violation  of  such  articles  is 
too  indefinite  to  justify  punishment  under  it.  The  defect  is  fatal,  and 
vitiates  the  whole  proceedings,  which  are,  therefore,  set  aside.  The 
parties  will  be  released  from  close  confinement,  and  returned  to  duty; 
and  it  is  hoped  that  their  future  conduct  will  he  such  as  to  prevent  any 
regret  that  they  should  have  thus  escaped  the  fate  to  which  they  were 
sentenced. 

VI.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Shelby ville,  Tennes- 
see, by  Special  Orders,  No.  54,  from  Head-quarters  Army  of  Tennessee, 
was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Assistant-Surgeon  W.  T.  Lockhart,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  following 
charge: 

Charge  :   Conduct  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military  discipline. 

Specification  1st:  For  that  the  said  Assistant-Surgeon  W.  T.  Lockhart, 
at  the  hospital  of  Withers'  division,  in  Sbelbj'ville,  Tennessee,  on  the 
26th  day  of  March,  1863,  did  harshly  and  capriciousl}'  curse  and  abuse 
one  Private  D.  F.  Halliburton,  Company  B,  12th  Tennessee  regiment, 
he,  the  said  Halliburton,  then  and  there  being  a  sentinel  on  guard  duty. 

The  other  specifications  are  omitted,  being  uearly  the  same  as  the 
first. 

Findi7ifj. 
Of  the  3d  Specification  of  the  Charge  :  Guilty,  except  the  words  "dis- 
charging his  duty." 

Of  the  2d  Specification  ;  Guilty,  except  the  words  "and  knock  down." 
Of  the  1st  Specification  :  Guilty,  except  the  words  "curse  and." 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  dismissed  the  service. 


VII.  .The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  Ihe  decision  of  the  President,  are  approved;  but, 
in  consideration  of  the  mitigating  circumstances  in  the  case,  and  the 
recommendations  on  file,  the  sentence  of  the  court  is  remitted,  and  A^ 
sistant-Surgeon  Lockhart  will  return  to  duty. 

VIII.  .Before  the  general  court  martial  convened  at  Richmond,  Vir- 
ginia, by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  23,  current  series,  Head-quarters 
Department  of  Henrico,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 


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Captain  W.  S.  Reed,  commauding  the  President's  guard,  on  the.  fol- 
lowing charges : 

Charge  1st:   Conduct  unbecoming  an  olTicerand  a  gentleman. 

Charge  2d :  Violation  of  the  14th  Article  of  War. 

Charge  3d:  Violation  of  the  42d  Article  of  War, 

Charge  ith  :  Violation  of  orders. 

The  specifications  are  omitted,  being  numerous,  and  of  mere  detail. 

Finding. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge :  Guilty,  but  attach  no  crim- 
inality thereto. 

Of  the  4th  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  5th  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge:  Not  Guilty,  but  guilty  of  unofiicerlike  and  im- 
proper conduct. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge  :   Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  3d  Charge  :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  4th  Charge  :   Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  4th  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Specification  of  the  4th  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  4th  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  dismissed  the  service. 

IX.. The  proceeding.s  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  approved  ;  but, 
in  consideration  of  some  mitigating  circumstances,  the  sentence  is  com- 
muted to  suspension  from  rank,  pay,  and  emolumcuts,  for  ton  days. 

X.  .Before  the  niilitav}'  court  attached  to  Licuteuant-Gcncral  Polk's 
corps  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Second  Lieutenant  H.  J.  Ballantine,  47th  Tennessee  regiment,  on  the 
following  charge : 

Charge  :  Violation  oF  the  81st  Article  of  War. 

SjtecHication  :  Charges  that  the  accused  did  permit  a  number  of  pris- 
oners to  leave  the  guard-house,  and  go  to  their  respective  quarters  to 
sleep,  which  resulted  in  the  escape  of  one  of  them. 


10() 

Find  illy. 
Of  the  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  dismissed  the  service. 

XI.  .The  proceedings  in  this  case  having  been  laid  before  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  approved  ;  but,  in  con- 
sideration of  the  oflence  against  military  law,  as  shown  by  the  evidence, 
being  in  this  case  rather  an  indiscretion  than  a  crime,  and  of  the  distin- 
guished gallantry  of  Lieutenant  Ballantine  at  the  battles  of  Shiloh, 
Richmond,  Kentucky,  and  Murfreesboro',  upon  the  recommendation  of 
the  court,  and  of  his  commanding  general,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  and 
Lieutenant  Ballantine  will  return  to  duty. 

XII.. Before  a  military  court  attached  to  Lieutenant-General  W.  J. 
Hardee's  corps  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

First  Lieutenant  Israel  P.  Guy,  16th  Alabama  regiment,  on  the  fol- 
lowing charges  : 

Charge  1st :  Desertion. 

Specification  :  In  this,  that  Israel  P.  Guy,  first  lieutenant  Captain 
Netherford's  company,  E,  16th  Alabama  regiment,  having  received  pay 
from  the  Confederate  States,  did,  on  or  about  the  2.3d  day  of  December, 
1862,  at  Triune,  Tennessee,  obtain  leave  to  go  and  was  sent  to  the  hos- 
pital at  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  but  instead  of  reporting  to  the  hospital 
at  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  went  to  his  home  in  Franklin  county,  Ala- 
bama, and  did  not  return  until  the  29th  day  of  March,  1863. 

Charge  2d :  Conduct  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military  disci- 
pline. 

The  specification  is  omitted,  being  substantially  the  same  as  that  to 
the  first  charge. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge:  Not  Guilty  of  desertion,  but  guilty  of  absence 
without  leave. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  dismissed  the  service. 


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XIII.  .The  proceedings  in  this  case  having  been  laid  before  the  Sec- 
retary of  AVar,  for  the  decision  of. the  President,  are  approved;  but,  in 
consideration  of  the  recommendation  of  his  brother  officers  and  of  the 
commanding  general,  and  their  testimony  to  his  previous  good  conduct, 
the  sentence  of  dismissal  from  the  service  is  remitted,  but  not  the  for- 
feiture of  pay  and  allowances  during  the  term  of  his  unauthorized 
absence. 

XIV.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  Head-quarters  of 
Major-General  R.  H.  Anderson's  division,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders; 
No.  l.'?3,  of  1862,  Department  of  Northern  Virginia,  was  arraigned  and 
tried  : 

Private  Grif.  Nunnaly,  Company  C,  41st  Virginia  regiment,  on  the 
following  charge  : 

Charge  :  Desertion. 

The  specification  is  omitted. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Sentence. 
To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

XV.  .The  proceedings  in  the  above  ease  having  been  laid  before  the 
Pi'esident,  the  following  is  his  decision  : 

That,  in  consideration  of  facts  appearing  in  the  papers  submitted  on 
the  appeal  for  a  commutation  of  the  sentence,  the  sentence  is  commuted 
to  confinement  with  ball  and  chain,  to  bo  kept  at  hard  labor,  with  only 
the  necessary  allowances,  and  without  pay,  until  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  service. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


OENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjdtast  and  Inspector-General's  OFFice, 

No.  96.  j  Richmond.  July  8,  1863. 

I.  .Soldiers  not  deemed  subjects  for  discharge  under  paragraph  IV, 
General  Orders,  No.  69,  current  series,  because  of  their  being  fit  for  sor- 


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vice  in  the  staflf  departmonta  of  tlie  army,  will  be  recommended  by  the 
board  of  examiners  to  the  general  commanding  the  department  or  army 
for  detail  in  the  medical  department,  as  nurses,  guards,  etc.,  to  relieve, 
as  far  as  practicable,  able-bodied  soldiers  fit  for  duty  in  the  field,  or,  if 
specially  fit  for  duty  in  another  staff  department,  they  will  be  recom- 
mended for  detail  in  such  department. 

II.. Soldiers  detailed  under  these  provisions  will,  when  fit  for  field 
duty,  be  relieved  and  sent  to  their  commands. 

III.  .Paragraph  X,  General  Orders,  No.  69,  current  series,  having,  in 
some  instances,  been  evaded,  is  so  far  amended  as  to  prohibit  medical 
officers  from  extending  leaves  of  absence  to  oflncers  or  furloughs  to  men. 
They  can  only  certify  to  the  disability,  and  recommend  such  exten- 
sions. 

IV.  .Commutation  for  rations  to  men  upon  furlough  will  not  be  paid 
until  they  rejoin  their  commands. 

v.. Rations  will  bo  issued  to  discharged  men  delayed  at  way  hos- 
pitals. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gbnekal's  Office, 

No.  97.  j  Richmond,  July  9,  1863. 

I.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  the  camp  of  Major- 
General  R.  H.  Anderson's  division,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No. 
133,  of  1862,  from  Head-quarters  Department  of  Northern  Virginia, 
was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Private  C.  Edgeworth,  Company  E,  3d  Georgia  regiment,  upon  the 
following  charges : 

Charge  1st:  Violation   of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

Charge  2d  :   Disobedience  of  orders. 

(The  specifications,  being  lengthy,  are  omitted.) 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge:   Guilty. 
Of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 


109 

Senteitee. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  befuro  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  the  following  order  is 
made  : 

The  1st  charge  is  improperly  stated  to  be  "Violation  of  the  52d  Arti- 
cle of  War."  In  consideration  of  which,  and  of  affidavits  tending  to 
explain  the  circumstances  which  led  to  his  conviction,  and  the  petition 
of  the  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  of  his  company,  of  the 
officers  of  his  regiment,  and  the  commanding  officer  of  his  division, 
bearing  testimony  to  the  gallantry  displayed  by  Private  Edgeworth  at 
Malvern  Hill,  where  ho  was  wounded,  and  at  the  second  battle  of 
Manassas,  the  sentence  is  remitted. 

Private  Edgeworth  will  be  released  from  confinement,  and  returned 
to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Apjdtant  and  Inspector-Gkxeral's  Office, 

No.  98.  f  Richmond,  Juhj  20,  1863. 

I.. All  white  male  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the 
ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five,  not  exempted  by  law,  and  not  already 
in  the  service,  will  be  enrolled.  Persons  liable  to  enrolment  may  bo 
enrolled  wherever  they  may  be  found. 

II.  .The  1st  paragraph  of  General  Orders,  No.  86,  current  series,  is  so 
amended  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

"  Companies,  battalions,  and  regiments  composed  of  persons  not 
within  the  age  of  conscription  (eighteen  and  forty-five),  will  be  accept- 
ed as  volunteers,  throughout  the  Confederacy,  under  the  act  of  August 
21,  1861,  No.  229,  for  local  defence,  and  special  service."  Those  per- 
sons belonging  to  such  organizations,  who  are  of  conscript  age,  and 
neither  exempted  by  law,  nor  already  in  the  service,  will  be  discharged, 
and  reported  to  the  bureau  of  conscription  for  enrolment. 

III.  .The  following  regulation  will  bo  in  addition  to  those  heretofore 
published  in  regard  to  substitutes  : 

Hereafter  every  porBon  furnishing  a  sub'slituto,  in  accordance  with 


no 

existing  regulations,  shall  bocomo  liable  to  and  be  immediately  enroll- 
ed for  military  duty,  upon  the  loss  of  the  services  of  the  substitute  fur- 
nished by  him,  from  any  cause  other  than  the  casualties  of  war. 
Bj'  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  ciiid  hitpector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "j  Ai>jut.\nt  and  I.n-spector-Genekal's  Office, 

No.  99.  J  RicuMo.ND,  Jiili/  21.  1S63. 

I. .  The  following  schedule  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein,  adopt- 
ed by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  concerned,  and  the 
special  attention  of  ofiBcers  and  agents  of  the  government  is  directed 
thereto  : 

Richmond,  Jtili/  18,  1863. 
Hon.  Jas.  A.  Seddon,  Secretary  of  War  : 

Sir  :  The  commissioners  appointed  under  section  5th  of  the  bill 
recently  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress,  regulating  impressments, 
being  required  to  agree  upon  and  publish  a  schedule  of  prices  every 
two  months,  or  oftener  if  they  should  deem  it  proper,  in  accordance 
with  the  foregoing  requisition  we  respectfully  lay  before  you  the  fol- 
lowing schedule  of  prices,  marked  A  and  B,  for  the  ensuing  month. 
Owing  to  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  satisfactory  information  as  to 
pork,  we  have  postponed  the  appraisement  till  our  next  assessment. 

Mr.  William  B.  Harrison  was  again  invited  to  act  as  third  commis- 
sioner, and  it  is  proper  to  add  that  the  schedules  of  api)raisement  re- 
ceived the  unanimous  approval  of  the  commissioners. 

The  following  schedules  present  the  maximum  prices  to  bo  paid  for 
the  articles  appraised  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when 
impressed  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere,  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to  which  the 
article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neighborhood,  or  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which  the  government  needs  the 
article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent:  ^jrovidcd,  that  in  no  case  the  amount 
deducted  for  transportation,  as  above,  shall  exceed  25  cents  per  bushel 
for  grain,  and  25  cents  per  cwt.  for  long  forage,  flour,  bacon,  iron,  etc. 
In  addition  to  the  established  price  of  transportation,  the  government 
to  pay  all  legal  tolls  ;  and  where  farmers  can  not  procure  nails  for  baling 
forage,  government  to  furnish  the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  deduct- 
ed from  the  established  price  of  baling: 


lil 


SCHEDULB    A. 

ARTICLi:ti. 

QUALITY. 

Prime, 

DFSCRIPTION. 

QU.\NTITY. 

PRICE. 

1  Wlieat, 

White, 

Per  busliel  of    60  lbs. 

$      5  00 

2  Flour, 

Good, 

Superfine, 

"     barrel  of  196  lbs. 

25  00 

S  Corn, 

Prime, 

White. 

'•    bushel  of    56  lbs. 

4  00 

4  Unshcllcd  corn. 

" 

" 

"            "               lbs. 

3  95 

5  Corn  meal, 

Good, 

- 

"          .50  lbs. 

4  20 

6  Ryo. 

Prime, 

_ 

50  lbs. 

3  20 

7  Cleaner!  oat«<, 

" 

- 

"            "           32  lbs. 

2  00 

8  Wheat  bran, 

Good, 

- 

"            "           17  lbs. 

50 

9  Shorts, 

" 

_ 

"            "           22  lbs. 

70 

10  Brown  stuff. 

" 

- 

28  lbs. . 

90 

11   Ship  stuff, 

" 

_ 

"           37  lbs. 

1  40 

12  l!a<on. 

" 

Hog  round. 

"    pound. 

1  00 

13  Salt  pork. 

" 

- 

"        " 

1  00 

14  Lard, 

" 

- 

"        '• 

1  00 

15  Horses, 

Ist  class. 

Artillery,  etc. 

Average  price  per  he.ad. 

350  00 

16  Wool, 

Fair, 

Washed, 

Per  pound. 

3  00 

17  Wool, 

" 

Unwashed, 

"        " 

2  00 

18  Peas, 

Good, 

_ 

"    bushel  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

19  Beans, 

" 

_ 

60    " 

4  00 

20  Potatoes, 

« 

Irish, 

"         60    " 

4  00 

21  Potatoes, 

" 

Sweet, 

"         60     " 

5  00 

22  Onions, 

" 

- 

60    « 

5  00 

23  Dried  iieaches, 

" 

Peeled, 

"            "         38    " 

8  00 

24  Drierl  peaches. 

" 

Unpeeled, 

38     " 

4  50 

26  l>ried  a|)ples. 

" 

Peeled, 

"            «         28    " 

3  00 

26  Hay,  baloii. 

>' 

Timothy,  or 

. 

clover. 

•'        100  pounds, 

3  00 

27  Hay,  baled 

" 

Orchard,  or  herd 

grass. 

"        100        " 

3  00 

28  Hay,  unbaled. 

» 

Orchard,  or  herd 

grass. 

"        100        •' 

2  70 

29  Sh'foats,  baled, 

Good, 

100 

4  00 

30  Sh'foats,  nnb'd. 

'■ 

_ 

100        " 

31  Blade  fodder, 

3  70 

baled. 

« 

_ 

"        100        " 

32  Blade  fodder. 

3  00 

unbaled. 

_ 

«        100        " 

2  70 

33  Shucks,  baled. 

" 

_ 

"        lOD        " 

2  00 

34  Shucks,  unbal'd. 

<i 

_ 

«        100        " 

35  Wheat  straw, 

1  70 

baled. 

" 

_ 

"        100        " 

36  Wheat  str.aw. 

1  00 

unbaled. 

'i 

_ 

"        100 

70 

37  Pasturage, 

" 

Interior, 

"    head  per  month. 

3  00 

38 

Superi'r, 

" 

11        I.               .i 

4  00 

39 

Ist  rate. 

" 

"        "               '• 

5  00 

40 

Good. 

Near  cities. 

K           i<                     i: 

5  00 

41 

Superi'r. 

" 

.;          41                   .1 

6  00 

42 

Ist  rate. 

" 

a           «                    li 

7  00 

43  Salt, 

Good, 

_ 

"    bushel  of  50  lbs. 

5  00 

44  Soap. 

•< 

_ 

"    pound. 

40 

45  Candles, 

" 

Tallow, 

li        li 

1  00 

46  Vinesar, 

" 

Cider, 

"    gallon, 

1  00 

47  Whiskey, 

" 

Trade, 

li        11 

3  00 

48  Supar, 

" 

Brown, 

"    pound. 

1  00 

49  Molasses, 

" 

New  Orleans, 

'•    gallon. 

8  00 

50  Rice, 

" 

"    pound, 

20 

61  Coffee, 

Rio, 

.1        11 

3  00 

52  Tea, 

" 

Trade, 

,1        11 

7  00 

63  Vinegar, 

" 

Manufactured, 

'•    gallon. 

50 

64  Pip;  iron. 

" 

No.  1  quality. 

"     ton. 

125  00 

66  Pin  iron. 

•' 

No.  -J        •• 

••'    ton, 

110  00 

86  Pig  iron. 

•• 

No.  3 

•'    ton. 

100  00 

VI  BlBom  iron, 

u 

- 

"    ton, 

180  00  • 

112 


ScHEDTJLB  A — Continued. 


ARTICLE'^. 

Qn.\lITT. 

DESCRIPTION. 

QU.INTITT. 

PRICE. 

58  Smiths'  iron, 

Good, 

Round,  plato,and 

bar. 

Per  ton. 

$380  80 

59  Leather, 

" 

Harness, 

''  pound, 

2  60 

60  Leather, 

" 

Sole, 

"        •' 

2  40 

61  Leather. 

" 

Upper, 

a           u 

2  80 

62  Beef  cattle, 

" 

Gross  weight, 

"  100  pounds, 

16  00 

63  Beef  cattle. 

Superi'r, 

" 

'• 

18  00 

64  Beef  cattle, 

1st  rate, 

" 

" 

20  00 

65  Sheep, 

Fair, 

Per  head, 

_ 

30  00 

66  Army  woolen  cl'h. 

M  yard. 

Good, 

10  oz.  per  yard. 

"  yard. 

4  50 

67  Army  woolen  cl'h, 

Pro   rata  as    to 
greater  or  less 
width  or  wei't. 

68  Army  woolen  cl'h. 

6-4  yard. 

" 

20  07,.  per  yard. 

Per  yard, 

69  Army  woolen  cl'h, 

Pro    rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 
width  or  wei't. 

9  00 

70  Flannels,            % 

71  Cotton  shirt'g,  % 

72  Cotton  shirt'g,  j| 

73  Cotton  sheet'g  4-4 

" 

6  oz.  per  yard. 

Per  yard. 

3  00 

" 

4^2  yards  to  lb. 

'• 

42 

" 

:i-}^  yards  to  lb. 

" 

50 

" 

3    yards  to  lb. 

" 

60 

74  Cotton  osnab'g,^ 

" 

6  oz.  per  lb. 

" 

60 

75  Cotton  osnab'g  j| 

'• 

8  oz.  per  lb. 

" 

70 

76  Cotton  drills;    % 

'• 

3  yard.s  to  lb. 

" 

70 

77  Cot.  shirt,  stripes, 

" 

3  yards  to  lb. 

" 

70 

78  Cotton  tent  cloths 

'• 

10  oz.  to  yard. 

" 

87 

79  Cotton  warps, 

'■ 

-" 

"     pound. 

1  63 

80  Army  shoes. 

'■■ 

- 

"     pair, 

10  00 

81  Shoe  thread. 

« 

- 

"    pound. 

2  00 

82  Wool     socks,  for 

men. 

" 

- 

"    pair, 

1  25 

E.    W.    HUBARD, 

Rob't  Gibboney, 
Wsf.  B.  Hareison. 


n« 


ScHEDrLF,  B — Hire  of  Lalnr,  Teamx,   Wcyovn.  and  Drivere. 


1.  Baling  long  forage 

2.  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur- 

nished by  the  government, 

3.  Hauling, 

4.  Hauling    grain, 

5.  Hire   of  two -horse   team,  wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,.. 

6.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

7.  Hire    of  four-horse  te.am,  wagon,   and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,.. 

8.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished   by  the 

government, 

9.  Hire    of  six  -  horse  team,  wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,.. 

10.  Hire  of  same,  rations   furnished  by  the 

government, 

11.  Hire   of  laborer,   rations    furnished   by 

owner, 

12.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  hy  the 

government, 

13.  Hire    of    same,    rations    furnished    by 

owner, 

14.  Hire  of  siime,  rations   furnished  by  the 

government, 


Per 


100  lbs. 

$  80 

56  " 

cwt.  per  mile, 
bus.  "   " 

05 
06 
08 

day, 

10  00 

day. 

6  00 

day. 

13  00 

day, 

6  50 

day. 

16  00 

day. 

8  00 

day. 

2  00 

day, 

1  25 

month, 

40  00 

month, 

20  00 

By  order. 


E.    W.    HUBAKD, 

Robert  Gibboney, 
Wm.  B.  Harrison. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDEKS, 

No.  100. 


Adjutant  and  Inspector -General's  Office, 
Richmond,  July  23,  1803. 


I.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  in  the  City  of  Richmond, 
by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  23,  current  series,  from  Head-quarters 
Department  of  Henrico,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Private  Z.  M.  Kent,  3d  company,  battalion  of  Washington  artillery, 
on  the  following  charges  : 

Charge  \st :  Violation  of  the  20th  Article  of  War. 
Charge  2d:  Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 


Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  2cl  Charge  :   Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Seiitence. 

To  confinement  at  hard  labor  for  two  years,  in  such  penitentiary  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  commander  of  the  Departmetit  of  Henrico, 
and  to  close  confinement  vintil  such  designation  is  made. 

The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  the  following  order 
is  made  : 

Neither  the  20th  nor  the  52d  Article  of  War  prescribe  any  duty  to 
be  performed  or  any  act  to  be  avoided,  but  simply  announce  punish- 
ments to  be  inflicted  for  certain  oflences.  The  charges  are  improperly 
laid.  The  proceedings  are,  therefore,  set  aside.  Private  Z.  M.  Kent 
will  be  released,  and  returned  to  duty. 

II.  .Before  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Chattanooga,  Tennes- 
see, by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  69,  from  Head-quarters  Army  of 
Tennessee,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q.  M.,  upon  the  following  charges,  viz : 

Charge  lat :  Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military 
discipline. 

Specification  Ist :  In  this,  that  he,  the  said  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  quartermaster  at  Ringgold,  Georgia),  failed  to  sup- 
ply wood  for  the  use  of  the  hospitals  at  Ringgold,  Georgia.  All  this  at 
or  near  Ringgold,  Georgia,  between  the  12th  October  and  20th  Novem- 
ber, 1862. 

Specification  2d:  In  this,  that  he,  the  said  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  quartermaster  at  Ringgold,  Georgia),  failed  to  pro- 
cure negroes  as  servants  for  the  hospitals  at  Ringgold,  Georgia,  either 
by  hiring  or  impressing,  as  required  by  an  order  from  General  Bragg, 
which  states :  "  That  if  negroes  cannot  be  hired,  they  must  be  pressed 
into  service — free  as  well  as  slaves."  All  this  at  or  near  Ringgold, 
Georgia,  between  the  20th  day  of  August,  1862,  and  the  15th  January, 
1863. 

Charge  2d :  Absence  without  leave. 

Specification  1st:  In  this,  that  he,  the  said  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  quartermaster  at  Ringgold,  Georgia),  did  absent  him- 


115' 

self  from  his  post,  without  authority,  for  three  days.  All  this  at  or  near 
Ringgold,  Georgia,  between  the  7th  of  October  and  the  12th  of  October, 
1862. 

Specificntion  2d  :  In  this,  that  he,  the  said  Captain  6.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  quartermaster  at  Ringgold,  Georgia),  did  absent  him- 
self from  his  post,  without  authority,  for  two  days.  All  this  at  Ring- 
gold, Georgia,  between  the  23d  and  26th  December,  1862. 

Charge.  3d:  Conduct  unbecoming  an  officer  and  a  gentleman. 

Specification  1st :  In  this,  that  the  said  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q. 
M.,  was  drunk  in  the  streets  of  Ringgold,  Georgia,  on  or  about  the  16th 
November,  1862. 

Specification  2d :  In  this,  that  the  said  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q. 
M.,  did  walk  through  the  streets  of  Ringgold,  Georgia,  using  profane 
language,  and  declaring  that  ho  could  whip  anj'  man  who  bad  any  thing 
against  him,  or  words  to  that  effect.  « 

Specification  3rf;  In  this,  that  the  said  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q. 
M.,  did  make  charges  und  statements  to  Surgeon  A.  J.  Ford,  P.  A.  C.  S., 
in  writing,  hereto  annexed,  against  Surgeon  Francis  Thornton,  P.  A.  C. 
S.,  all  of  which  are  false.  All  this  at  Ringgold,  Georgia,  on  or  about 
from  the  16th  to  the  19th  days  of  November,  1862. 
Finding. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty,  but  attach  no  crim- 
innlity  thereto. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge:  Guilty,  but  attach  no  crim- 
inality thereto. 

Of  the  1st  Charge:  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge:  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  3d  Charge :  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  3d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Specification  of  the  3d  Charge  :  Guilty,  except  as  to  the 
words  "  all  of." 

Of  the  3d  Charge:  Guilty. 

Sentence. 

To  be  cas'.i  .  red. 

The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  for  the  order  of  the  President,  the  following  decision  is 
made: 

The  conduct  of  Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  as  exhibited  by  the  record, 
was  certainly  reprehensible,  but  does  not  seem  to  have  justified  the  find- 
ing and  sentence. 


116 

Conduct  may  be  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military  discipline,  and 
deserve  punishment,  even  to  the  extent  of  dismissal,  without  being  scan- 
dalous or  disgraceful,  as  is  implied  bj'  the  description  "  unbecoming  an 
officer  and  a  gentleman." 

The  sentence  is  remitted. 

III.  .Before  the  military  court  attached  to  the  command  of  General 
Beauregard  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Captain  J.  J.  Maguire,  Company  H,  Aiken's  regiment  partisan  rang- 
ers, on  the  following  charges  : 

Charge  1st:  Conduct  highly  unofiBcerlike  and  prejudicial  to  good  or- 
der and  military  discipline. 

Charge  2d:   Knowingly  making  a  false  muster. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Ist  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty, 
Of  the  1st  Charge  :   Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge  :   Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 

Se/itcnce, 
To  be  cashiered. 

The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before  the  Secre- 
tary of  War,  for  the  final  order  of  the  President,  the  following  decision 
is  made  thereon  : 

That,  in  consideration  of  the  inexperience  of  Captain  Maguire  in  mat- 
ters of  military  detail,  and  of  his  good  character,  on  the  recommendation 
of  the  members  of  the  military  court  before  whom  he  was  tried,  and  of 
his  commanding  officer,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  ho  will  be  releas- 
ed from  arrest,  and  return  to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General, 

GENERAL  OKDEES,"|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genekal's  Offich, 

No.  101.  J  Richmond,  July  25, 1863. 

I.. Before  the  military  court  attached  to  the  corps  of  Lieutenaut- 
General  Ewell  was  arraigned  and  tried: 


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Lieutenant  J.  B.  Countiss,  21st  (Jeorgin  regiment,  on  the  following 
charges : 

Charge  ]st :   Drunkenness  on  duty. 

Charije  Id :  Conduct  to  the  preiudicc  of  good  order  and  military  dis-  ' 
cipline. 

Finding. 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  1st  Ch.argo:   Guilty. 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Cbar};e  :  Guilty. 

Scntcnvv. 
To  be  cashiered. 

II.. The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  becu  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  approved  ;  but, 
in  consideration  of  the  recommendation  of  the  oflRcers  of  his  regiment, 
and  the  brigade,  division,  and  departmental  commanders,  and  their  tes- 
timony to  the  previous  good  conduct  of  the  accused,  and  their  assurance 
that  a  repetition  of  the  ofl'ence  is  not  to  be  expected,  the  sontenco  is  re- 
mitted, and  Lieutenant  Countiss  will  resume  his  sword. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inipector-General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  Adjutaxt  and  Ixspector-Gexeral's  Office, 

No.  102.  j  Richmond,  July  26.  1863. 

I.  .General  Orders,  No.  36,  current  series,  is  hereby  revoked. 

II.. The  Superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau  is  .author- 
ized to  pay,  from  the  funds  appropriated  for  the  expenses  of  said  bu- 
rean,  the  actual  travelling  expenses  of  officers  of  the  .same  on  duty,  un- 
der orders,  in  lieu  of  any  commutation  for  the  time,  of  rations  and 
forage. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General, 


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G£N£BA]j  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspectok-Obneral's  Officb, 

No.  103.  I  BiciiMOKD.  Jtdy  27, 1863. 

I.. When  the  supply  of  salt  is  adequate,  and  fresh  meat  is  issued 
oftener  than  thrice  a  week,  the  salt  ration  will  be  fixed  at  three  quarts 
to  the  hundred  rations. 

II.  .Commanding  officers  have  no  authority  to  alter  or  fix  the  ration 
established  by  the  Secretary  of  "War. 

III.  .Quartermasters  at  supply  depots  will  respect  the  requisitions 
made  by  quartermasters  recciviug  taxes  in  kind,  for  grain  sacks. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  fnspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  104.  )  Richmond,  Jidi/  28,  1863. 

I.. Officers  of  engineer  troops  having  been  selected  for  appointment, 
with  special  reference  to  their  qualifications  as  engineers,  will  be  re- 
spected as  such,  and  their  duties,  when  serving  in  the  field,  camp,  or 
cantonment,  will  embrace  all  that  are  enumerated  in  paragraph  III, 
General  Orders,  No  90,  current  series,  "as  the  duties  of  officers  of  en- 
gineers serving  with  armies  of  the  Confederate  States." 

II.  .On  the  march  engineer  troops  will  serve  as  pioneers,  construct- 
ing and  repairing  roads  and  bridges,  and  removing  impediments  to  the 
advance  of  our  forces,  or  delaying  the  enemy  by  breaking  up  roads, 
destroying  bridges,  and  otherwise  obstructing  his  communications. 
They  will  also  be  employed  in  making  rapid  reconnoissances  and  su(r- 
veys  of  the  country  occupied  or  marched  over  by  the  army ;  preparing 
sketches  and  maps  of  the  roads  and  topographical  features  ;  laying  out 
camps,  and  entrenching  military  positions.  During  battle  they  will  be 
held  in  reserve  and  used  as  circumstances  may  demand,  either  in  their 
special  duties,  or  as  infantry.  Under  the  command  of  their  officers, 
they  may  bo  employed  in  the  construction  of  ovens  for  baking  bread, 
and  other  works  requiring  mechanical  skill,  but  not  on  mere  police  duty 
or  the  like,  unless  connected  immediately  with  their  own  organization : 
nor  are  they  to  be  employed  altogether  on  mere  fatigue  service — but, 
once  instructed  in  the  duties  of  the  engineer  soldier,  they  will  be  fre- 
quently employed  in  laying  out  works,  and  also  in  aiding  and  direct- 
ing the  labors  of  other  troops  detailed  for  their  construction. 


I  ly 

III. .  Whenever  practicable,  engineer  troops  will  be  drilled  and  in- 
structed in  tbc  duties  of  engineer  soldiers  by  battalions  and  regiments — 
and  to  this  end  all  the  companies  serving  with  an  army  will  be  habitu- 
ally kept  together :  but  such  temporary  assignments  of  companies  to 
divisions  or  otherwise  will  be  made  by  the  commanding  general  as 
will,  in  his  judgment,  best  comport  with  the  interests  of  the  service. 
The  Ordnance  department  will  furnish  light  arms  to  these  troops  ;  but 
until  they  can  be  supplied,  infantry  muskets  will  be  used.  Entrench- 
ing tools  and  other  implements  will  be  issued  by  the  Engineer  depart- 
ment. 

IV.  .Each  company  of  the  engineer  troops  shall  be  provided  by  the 
Quartermaster's  department  with  at  least  two  wagons  and  teams  of 
four  animals  each,  for  transportation  of  company  equipage,  entrench- 
ing tools,  and  other  implements ;  one  ambulance  or  other  light  vehicle, 
with  a  team  of  two  horses,  for  carryhig  survej'iug  instruments,  station- 
ery, maps,  drawing  boards,  and  other  fixtures;  and  twelve  additional 
horses,  with  saddles,  bridles,  and  harness,  to  be  used  by  the  officers  and 
non-commissioned  officers  in  making  rapid  examinations  of  country,  or 
for  hauling  materials  needed  for  prompt  repair  and  construction  of 
bridges,  roads,  and  other  works. 

v.  .When  officers  of  the  corps  of  engineers  and  of  engineer  troops  arc 
engaged  on  the  same  service,  the  senior  officer  present  shall  control  in 
all  questions  relating  to  the  location  and  construction  of  defences,  and 
to  engineering  works  generally  connected  with  the°army,  unless  for  spe- 
cial reasons  it  bo  decided  otherwise  by  the  commanding  officer;  but 
should  the  recommendations  and  plans  of  a  junior  officer  be  adopted, 
the  directions  of  the  commander  will  not  be  communicated  through 
him  to  the  senior  engineer  officer,  w'hether  of  the  corps  or  troops,  but 
through  the  usual  channel  of  orders.  Officers  of  the  corps  of  engineers 
will  not  assume  the  command  of  engineer  troops.  In  all  cases  they 
will  be  under  the  command  of  their  own  officers. 
By  order. 

S,  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Insjiector-Ociieral, 


1-^0 

GENERAL  ORDilRS,')  Adjutant  and  iNSPEciOR-GENERAt's  Office, 

No.  105.  J  Richmond,  July  29. 1863. 

I.  .The  following  act  and  regulations  are  published  for  the  informa- 
tion of  the  army  : 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  AN  IN- 
CREASE OP  THE  quartermaster's  AND  COMMISSARY  DEPARTJIENTS, 
APPROVED    FEBRUARY    15,    1S62. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  act  entitled  An  act  to  provide  for  an  increase  of  the  Quartermaster's 
and  Commissary  departments,  approved  February  fifteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended,  by  striking 
out  the  proviso  at  the  end  of  the  same,  and  inserting  in  lieu  thereof  the 
following:  'Provided,  that  no  quartermaster,  assistant  quartermaster, 
commissary,  or  assistant  commissary  be  authorized  to  employ  as  a  clerk 
anj'  one  liable  to  military  service;  and  the  commanding  officer  of  quar- 
termasters, assistant  quartermasters,  commissaries,  or  assistant  com- 
missaries may  detail  from  the  ranks  under  his  command  such  person 
or  persons  as  may  be  necessary  for  service  in  the  offices  of  said  quarter- 
masters, assistant  quartermasters,  commissaries,  and  assistant  commis- 
saries :  pror,ided,  that  only  disabled  soldiers  shall  be  so  detailed  while 
one  can  be  found  for  such  service.'  "     [Approved  April  22,  1863.] 

II.  .To  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  act,  officers 
of  the  Quartermaster  and  Commissary  departments  in  the  field  will 
report  to  the  commanding  general  of  the  army  or  department  the  num- 
ber and  names  of  the  clerks  employed  by  each,  and  whether  they  are 
soldiers  or  citizens.  If  soldiers,  unless  their  dis.ibility  be  shown  by 
certificates  of  medical  examining  boards,  they  will  be  promptlj'  return- 
ed to  their  respective  companies.  If  citizens,  exemption  from  service 
must  be  exhibited,  or  they  will  be  reported  to  the  proper  enrolling  offi- 
cer for  conscription. 

III.  .Similar  reports  will  be  made  by  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's 
and  Commissary  departments  at  posts,  through  the  chiefs  of  theic?  re- 
spective departments,  to  this  office. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


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GENERAL  OUDERS"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gknerai.'s  Office, 

No.  100.  J  Richmond,  July  30,  1803. 

I.  .Before  a  general  conrtmartial  eonrcned  at  Shelby ville,  Tennessee, 
by  virtue  of  Special  Onlers,  No.  l.'U,  paragraph  "VII,  current  series, 
from  Headquarters  Army  of  Tennessee,  was  arraigned  and  tried : 

Private  John  Whitehead,  Company  F,  16th  Tennessee  regiment,  on 
the  following  charge  : 

Charge  :  Desertion. 

Fii)dinij. 

Of  the  Specification  :  Guilty. 

Of  tho  Charge:  Guilty. 

Sentence. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

II.. The  proceedings  in  the  above  cas':>  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  tho  decision  of  the  President,  it  is  ordered,  upon 
the  application  of  the  commanding  general,  and  upon  the  statement 
made  by  the  Medical  Director  of  the  Array  of  Tennessee,  that  tho  sen- 
tence be  remitted.  Private  Whitehead  will  be  released,  and  returned 
to  duty. 

III.  .The  proceedings  in  the  ease  of  Private  L.  H.  Toole,  Company 
E,  3d  Georgia  regiment,  convicted  b'efore  a  general  court  martial  con- 
vened at  the  camp  of  Majoi^General  R.  H.  Anderson,  by  virtue  of  Gener- 
al Orders,  No.  133,  of  1862,  from  Head-quarters  of  Northern  Virginia, 
of  abandoning  his  company  and  regiment,  then  on  picket  duty,  and 
running  awa.y  while  the  enemy  was  bombarding  the  town  of  Fredericks- 
burg, on  the  llth  of  December,  1862,  and  sentenced  to  be  shot  to  death 
with  musketry,  having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the 
decision  of  the  President,  it  is  ordered  that,  in  consideration  of  the 
additional  evidence  of  good  conduct  referred  to  by  tho  general  of 
division,  the  previous  gallant  services  and  zeal  of  the  prisoner,  togeth- 
er wil'-i  the  punishment  he  has  already  suffered,  the  senteoce,  is  remitted, 
with  the  hope  that  this  Ics.-son  will  prevent  a  recurrence  of  like  miscon- 
duct.    The  prisoner  will  be  released,  and  returned  to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER 
Adjutnut  and  Inspector- Geno^^l. 


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GKNEKAL  OKDEKS,]  Adjutant  and  Inspectoh  Generals  Oppice, 

No.  107.  J  RicuMONB,  Aiigmt  1,  1863. 


I.. When  conscripts  have  been  sent  to  camps  of  instruction,  or  to 
regiments  in  the  field,  after  being  pronounced,  by  the  district  examin- 
ing boards  established  under  the  law,  fit  for  military  service,  they  can 
thereafter  be  discharged  only  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  pre- 
scribed for  the  discharge  of  soldiers  from  the  army. 

II.  .In  case  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  any  conscripts  in  camps  of 
instruction  are  disqualified,  the  commandant  will  order  a  medical  exami- 
nation, and  forward  a  report  fully  setting  forth  the  grounds  of  dis- 
ability, if  found  to  exist,  through  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  the 
Surgeon-General  for  his  approval,  and  for  final  action  by  the  War  de- 
partment. 

III.  .Eegimental  officers  have  no  discretion  but  to  receive  and 
take  up  on  their  rolls  conscripts  duly  assigned  them  under  the  provis- 
ions of  General  Orders,  No.  82,  of  1862,  from  this  office.  The  question 
of  discharge  arises  subsequently. 

IV.. The  compensation  of  surgeons  employed  under  the  act  of  Con- 
gress approved  October  11,  1862,  to  examine  persons  enrolled  for  mili- 
tary duty,  will  be  $5  per  day  for  each  day  they  are  actually  engaged  in 
making  such  examinations,  and  will  be  paid  upon  their  certified  ac- 
counts, by  the  quartermaster  of  the  nearest  camp  of  instruction.  This 
order  will  take  eff'ect  from  the  20th  of  Tebruary  last. 

v.. General  officers,  who  aii:  provided  with  aids-de-camp  allowed  by 
law,  should  they  find  it  necessary  to  accept  supernumerary  or  volun- 
teer aids,  must  only  receive  those  exempt  from  military  service. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjctant  amb  Inspector-Generals  Office, 

No.  108.  r  EicuMOND,  August  i,  1863. 

The  following  acts  arc  published  for  the  information  of  the  army  : 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  TRANSPORTATION    OP  PliUSONS  WHO  HAVE  BEEN 
MUSTERED  INTO  THE  SERVICE  FOR  THE  WAR. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 


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non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  who  have  been  mustered  into 
service  for  the  war,  and  to  whom  furloughs  maj-  be  granted  for  not  more 
than  sixty  days,  shall  be  entitled  to  transportation  home  and  back: 
provided,  that  this  allowance  shall  only  be  made  once  during  the  term 
of  enlistment  of  such  non-commissioned  otlicers  and  privates."  [Ap- 
proved February  7,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMKNn  AN  ACT  FOK  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  AND  OnGANIZATION 
OF  A  GKNEHAL  STAFF  FOR  THE  ARMV  OF  THB  CONFEDEKATE  STATES. 
"  The  CongrcKK  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
from  and  after  the  passa  :e  of  this  act  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  • 
attached  to  the  office  of  Quartermaster-General  of  the  army  of  the  Con- 
federate States  shall  .be  those  of  a  brigadier-general  in  the  provisional 
army."'     [Approved  March  20,  1863.] 

AN  Al'T  TO  I'RKVENT  THE  ABSENCE  OF  OFFICERS  AXTl  SOLDIERS  WITHOUT 
LEAVE. 

"  The  Conf/resa  of  the  Cotifederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
no  officer  or  soldier  of  the  army  shall  receive  pay  for  any  period  during 
which  he  may  be  absent  without  leave,  or  beyond  the  leave  granted 
from  competent  authority,  according  to  the  regulations  of  the  army  : 
provided,  that  this  restriction  shall  not  affect  the  sick  and  wounded  in 
hospitals. 

"Sec.  2.  In  order  to  enforce  the  requirements  of  the  foregoing  sec- 
tion, it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  commanding  officers  ofcomp.anies  to 
state,  upon  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  their  companies,  the  length  of 
time  anj'  officer  or  soldier  has  been  absent  therefrom  without  leave  of 
competent  authorit}',  since  the  previous  payment,  when  the  deduction 
of  pay  for  such  absence  will  be  made  by  the  quartermaster  from  the 
amount  otherwise  due  the  officer  or  soldier:  and  any  commander  of  a 
compauj'  who  shall  fail  to  note  such  absence  on  the  muster  and  pay  rolls 
of  the  company  shall  be  required  to  refund  to  the  government  the 
amount  forfeited  by  such  absent  ollicer  or  soldier,  unless  it  shall  already 
have  been  received  from  the  ollicer  or  soldier  so  absent. 

"  Sec.  3.  Officers  shall  certify,  upon  honor,  on  their  pay  accounts, 
whether  they  have  or  have  not  been  absent,  without  leave  by  competent 
authority,  within  the  time  for  which  they  claim  paj' :  and  if  absent  with- 
out leave,  they  shall  state  in  their  certificates  the  time  and  period  of  such 
absences.  In  like  manner,  commanding  officers  of  companies  shall  cor- 
tif}',  on  honor,  on  their  pay  accounts,  that  they  have  stated  fully  and 
correctly,  on  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  their  companies,  the  length  of 
time  each  officer  and  soldier  of  the  comjiany  has  bcuu  abfcut  without 
leave  since  the  last  payment  of  the  company. 


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"  Sec  4.  Tbat  this  act  shall  not  bo  construed  to  relieve  any  officer  or 
private  from  any  other  penalty  to  which  he  may  be  liable  b}'  existing 
laws  or  regulations."      [Approved  April  16,  1803.] 

AN  ACT  KXPLANATOHY  OF  AN  ACT  KXTITLED  AN  ACT  TO  AXiTHORIZE  THE 
PRESIDENT  TO  ACCEPT  AND  PLACE  IN  THE  SKUVICE  CERTAIN  REGISIENTS 
AND  BATTALIONS  HERETOPORE  RAISED,  APPROVED  IItH  OCTOBER, 
1862. 

"  The  Co'igreaa  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Amen'un  d,(i  eunet,  That 
the  second  section  of  the  act  entitled  An  act  to  authorize  the  President 
•to  accept  and  place  in  the  service  certain  regiments  and  battalions 
heretofore  raised,  approved  on  the  eleventh  day  of  October,  in  the  year 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  shall  pot  be  so  construed  as 
to  authorize  any  general  officer  to  appoint  any  of  the  officers  of  said 
regiments  and  battalions.  That  said  regiments  and  battalions  shall 
have  the  right,  within  ninety  days,  on  a  day  to  be  fixed  by  the  com- 
mander of  the  brigade  for  that  purpose,  to  elect  such  officers  as  volun- 
teers have  heretofore  been  authorized  to  elect :  2^''"vided,  that  this  act 
shall  not  apply  to  any  case  where  such  office  has  heretofore  been  tilled 
by  election."     [Approved  April  16,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  REPEAL  CERTAIN  CLAUSES  OF  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  AN  ACT  TO 
EXEMPT  CERTAIN  PERSONS  FROM    MILITARY  SERVICE,  ETC.,  APPROVED 

OCTOBER  11th,  1862. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
so  much  of  the  act  approved  October  eleventh,  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two,  as  exempts  from  military  service  '  one  person, 
either  as  agent,  owner,  or  overseer  on  each  plantation  on  which  one 
white  person  is  required  to  be  kept  by  the  laws  or  ordinances  of  any 
state,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military 
service,  and,  in  states  having  no  such  law,  one  person  as  agent,  owner, 
or  overseer  on  each  plantation  of  twenty  negroes,  and  on  which  there 
is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military  service  ;  and  also  the  fol- 
lowing clause  in  said  act,  to  wit:  '  And  furthermore,  for  additional  po- 
lice for  every  twenty  negroes,  on  two  or  more  plantations  within  five 
miles  of  each  other,  and  each  having  less  than  twenty  negroes,  and  on 
which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military  duty,  one  per- 
son, being  the  oldest  of  the  owners  or  overseers  on  such  plantations,'  be 
and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

"  Sec  2.  For  the  police  and  management  of  slaves,  there  shall  be 
exempted  one  person  on  each  form  or  plantation  the  sole  property  of  a 
minor,  a  person  of  unsound  mind,  a  feme-sole,  or  a  person  absent  from 
homo  in  the  military  or  naval  service  of  the  Confederacy,  on  which 


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there  are  twenty  or  more  slaves  :  proiuhd  the  person  so  exempted  was 
employed  and  acting  as  an  overseer  previous  to  the  sixteenth  of  April, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  there  is  no  white  male 
adult  on  said  farm  or  plantation  who  is  not  liable  to  military  duty, 
which  fact  shall  be  verified  by  the  afiidavits  of  said  person,  and  two 
respoctable  citizens,  and  shall  be  filed  with  the  enrolling  officer  :  and 
provided  the  owner  of  such  farm  or  plantation,  his  agent,  or  legal  rep- 
resentative, shall  make  affidavit,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  enrolling 
officer,  that,  after  diligent  eflort,  no  overseer  can  be  procured  for  such 
farm  or  plantation  not  liable  to  military  duty  :  provided,  further,  that 
this  clause  shall  not  extend  to  any  farm  or  plantation  on  which  negroes 
have  been  placed  by  division  from  any  other  farm  or  plantation  since 
the  eleventh  day  of  October,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two: 
provided,  further,  that  for  every  person  exempted  as  aforesaid,  and  dur- 
ing the  period  of  such  exemption,  there  shall  be  paid  annually  into  the 
public  treasury,  by  the  owners  of  such  slaves,  the  sum  of  five  hundred 
dollars. 

"  Sec.  3.  Such  other  persons  shall  bo  exempted  as  the  President  shall 
be  satisfied  ought  to  be  exempted  in  districts  of  country  deprived  of 
white  or  slave  labor  indispensable  to  the  production  of  grain  or  provis- 
ions necessary  for  the  support  of  the  population  remaining  at  home, 
and  also  on  account  of  justice,  equity,  and  necessity. 

"  Skc.  4.  In  addition  to  the  state  officers  exempted  by  the  act  of  Oc- 
tober eleventh,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  there  shall 
also  be  exempted  all  state  officers  whom  the  governor  of  any  state  may 
claim  to  have  exempted  for  the  due  administration  of  the  government 
and  laws  thereof;  but  this  exemption  shall  not  continue  in  any  state 
after  the  adjournment  of  the  next  regular  session  of  its  legislature,  un- 
less such  legislature  shall  by  law  exempt  them  from  military  duty  in 
the  provisional  army  of  the  Confederate  States."  [Approved  May  1, 
1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  AN  ACT  TO  ORGANIZE  MILITARY 
COURTS  TO  ATTEND  THE  ARMY  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  IN  THE 
FIELD,  AND  TO  DEFINE  THE  POWERS  OF  SAID  COURTS,  APPROVED  OCTO- 
BER 9th,  1862. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
in  addition  to  one  military  court  to  attend  each  army  corps  in  the  field, 
as  now  .authorized  by.  an  act  entitled  An  act  to  organize  military  courts 
to  attend  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  and  to  define 
the  power  of  said  courts,  approved  October  ninth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  one  military  court  shall  be  organized  in  each  of  such 
military  departments  as,  in   the  judgment  of  the  President,  the  public 


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exigencies  may  require — to  be  organized  in  the  manner  and  with  pow- 
ers prescribed  in  the  act  of  which  this  is  amendatory."  [Approved 
May  1,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  CONTINUE  AND  AMEND  THE  THIRD  SECTION  OK  AN  ACT  SUPPLE- 
MENTARY TO  AN  ACT  CONCERNING.  THE  PAV  AND  ALLOWANCE  DDE  TO 
DECEASED  SOLDIERS,  APPROVED  PEBIIIIARY  15TH,  1862,  AND  TO  PRO- 
VIDE FOR  THE  PROMPT  SETTLEMENT  OP  CLAIMS  FOR  ARREARAGES  OF 
PAY,  ALLOWANCE,  AND  BOUNTY  DUE  DECEASED  OFFICERS  ANH  SOL- 
DIERS. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  State*  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  third  section  of  an  act  entitled  An  act  .supplementary  to  an  act  con- 
cerning the  pay  and  allowance  due  to  deceased  soldiers,  approved 
February  fifteenth,  cii^hteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  to  provide  for 
the  prompt  settlement  of  claims  for  arrearages  of  pay,  allowance,  and 
bounty  due  deceased  officers  and  soldiers,  be  continued  of  force  until 
otherwise  provided  by  Congress."     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

JOINT  RESOLUTIONS   ON  THE    SUB.7ECT  OF  RETALIATION. 

"Resolved,  hy  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  In 
response  to  the  message  of  the  President,  transmitted  to  Congress  at 
the  commencement  of  the  present  session,  that,  in  the  opinion  of  Con- 
gress, the  commissioned  officers  of  the  enemy  ought  not  to  be  delivered 
to  the  authorities  of  the  respective  states,  as  suggested  in  the  said  mes- 
sage, but  all  captives  taken  by  the  Confederate  forces  ought  to  be  dealt 
with  and  disposed  of  by  the  Confederate  government. 

"  Sec.  2.  That,  in  the  judgment  of  Congress,  the  proclamations  of  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  dated  respectively  September  twenty- 
second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  January  first,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-three,  and  the  other  measures  of  the  Governmenf  of 
the  Uuited  States  and  of  its  authorities,  commanders,  and  forces,  de- 
signed or  tending  to  emancipate  slaves  in  the  Confederate  States,  or  to 
abduct  such  slaves,  or  to  incite  them  to  insurrection,  or  to  employ  ne- 
groes in  war  against  the  Confederate  States,  or  to  overthrow  the  insti- 
tution of  African  slavery,  and  bring  on  a  servile  war  in  these  states, 
would,  if  successful,  produce  atrocious  consequences,  and  they  are 
inconsistent  with  the  spirit  of  those  usages  which  in  modern  warfare 
prevail  among  civilized  nations;  they  may,  therefore,  bo  properly  and 
lawfully  repressed  by  retaliation. 

"Sec.  3.  That,  in  every  case  wherein,  during  the  present  war,  any 
violation  of  the  laws  or  usages  of  war  among  civilized  nations  shall  be, 
or  has  been  done  and  perpetrated,  by  those  ncting  niidor  the  authority 
of  the  Government  of  the  United  Slates  on  the  persons  or  property  of 


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citizens  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  of  those  under  the  protection  or  in 
tlie  land  or  naval  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  of  any  state  of 
the  Confederacy,  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  is  hereby 
authorized  to  cause  full  and  complete  retaliation  to  bo  made  for  every 
such  violation,  in  such  manner  and  to  such  extent  as  he  may  think 
proper. 

"  Sue.  4.  That  every  white  person,  being  a  commissioned  officer,  or 
acting  as  such,  who,  during  the  present  war,  shall  command  negroes  or 
mulattoes  in  arms  against  the  Confederate  States,  or  who  shall  arm,  , 
train,  organize,  or  prepare  negroes  or  mulattoes  for  military  service 
against  the  Confederate  States,  or  who  shall  voluntarily  aid  negroes  or 
mulattoes  in  auj^  military  enterprise,  j^ttack,  or  conflict  in  such  service, 
shall  be  deemed  as  inciting  servile  insurrection,  and  shall,  if  captured, 
be  put  to  death,  or  be  otherwise  punished  at  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

"  Sec.  5.  Every  person,  being  a  commissioned  officer,  or  acting  as 
such,  in  the  service  of  the  enemy,  who  shall,  during  the  present  war, 
excite,  attempt  to  excite,  or  cause  to  be  excited,  a  servile  insurrection, 
or  who  shall  incite,  or  cause  to  be  incited,  a  slave  to  rebel,  shall,  if  cap- 
tured, be  put  to  death,  or  bo  otherwise  punished  at  the  discretion  of  the 
court. 

"  Sec.  6.  Ever}'  person  charged  with  an  offence  punishable  under  the 
preceding  resolution  shall,  during  the  present  war,  be  tried  before  the 
militai'y  court  .attached  to  the  army  or  corps  by  the  troops  of  which  he 
shall  have  been  captured,  or  by  such  other  military  court  as  the  Presi- 
dent may  direct,  and  in  such  manner  and  under  such  regulations  as  the 
President  shall  prescribe,  and  after  conviction  the  President  may  com- 
mute the  punishment  in  such  manner  and  on  such  toruis  as  ho  may 
deem  proper. 

"  Sec.  7.  All  negroes  and  mulattoes  who  shall  be  engaged  in  war,  or 
be  taken  in  arms  against  the  Confederate  States,  or  shall  give  aid  or 
comfort  to  the  enemies  of  (he  Confederate  States,  shall,  when  captured 
in  the  Confederate  Slate.*,  lie  delivered  to  the  authorities  of  the  state  or 
states  in  which  they  shall  be  captured,  to  be  dealt  with  according  to. the 
present  or  future  laws  of  sufh  .^tate  or  states."  [Approved  May  1, 
1863.] 

.  AN  ACT  TO  PnOVIDE  FOR  THE  APPOINTMENT  OP  MILITARY  ST0REKEBPER8 
IN  THE  PROVISIONAL  ARMY  OP    THE  CONFEDERATE    STATES. 

"  The  Congresn  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  President  be  authorized  to  appoint  as  many  military  storekeepers 
of  ordnance  in  the  pravision.al  army  of  the  Confederate  States  as  may 
be  deemed  necessary,  not  to  exceed  in  all  eight  storekeepers,  four  with 
the  pay  and  allowance  of  a  captain  of  infantry,  and  four  with  the  pay 
and  allowance  of  a  first  lieutenant  of  infantry. 


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"  Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  military  storekeepers  of  the 
first  class  so  appointed  shall  be  required  to  give  bonds  in  the  sum  of 
twenty  thousand  dollars,  and  those  of  the  second  class  in  the  sum  of 
ten  thousand  dollars,  when  charged  with  the  disbursement  of  funds. 
This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage  :  provided,  that  no 
one  shall  be  appointed  under  its  provisions  except  officers  without  com- 
mands, or  officers  or  privates  who  have  performed  meritorious  services 
in  the  field,  or  have  become  incapacitated  by  wounds  or  sickness  for 
active  service."     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  PREVENT  FRAUD  IN  THE  QUARTERMASTER'S  AND  COMMISSARY 
DEPARTMENTS,  AND  THE  OBTAINING,  UNDER  FAl-SE  PRETENCE,  TRANS- 
PORTATION FOR    PRIVATE  PROPERTY. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
no  officer  charged  with  the  safe-keeping,  transfer,  or  disbursement  of 
public  moneys  shall  convert  to  his  own  use,  or  invest  in  any  kind  of 
property  or  merchandise,  on  private  account,  or  lend,  with  or  without 
interest,  any  portion  of  the  public  moneys  entrusted  to  him  for  safe- 
keeping, transfer,  disbursement,  or  any  other  purpose. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  no  officer  charged  with  the  safe-keeping,  transfer,  or 
disbursement  of  public  moneys,  or  charged  with  or  assigned  to  the  duty 
of  purchasiug  for  the  government  or  any  department  thereof,  shall  buy, 
trade,  traffic,  or  speculate  in,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  gain  to  himself  or  others,  by  resale  or  otherwise,  any  article  of 
food,  or  clothing,  or  material  of  which  the  same  is  made,  or  which  en- 
ters into  or  constitutes  a  part  of  the  same,  or  any  material  of  war,  or 
article  whatsoever,  which  is  or  may  be  required  to  be  purchased  for  the 
use  of  the  army,  or  the  prosecution  of  the  war. 

"  Sec.  3.  No  officer  shall  take  a  receipt  in  blank  for  any  article  or 
articles  purchased  b}' him  for  the  government,  oranj'  department  there- 
of; and  every  receipt  shall  set  forth  the  true  amount  paid,  and  on  what 
account ;  and  when  payment  is  made  on  account  of  property  purchased, 
the  receipt  shall  set  forth  the  name  of  the  person  from  whom  such  prop- 
erty was  purchased,  and  the  place  of  his  residence,  the  thing  or  things 
purchased,  by  items,  number,  weight,  or  measurement,  as  may  be  cus- 
tomary in  the  particular  case,  the  price  thereof,  and  the  date  of  pay- 
ment. 

"  Sec.  4.  No  officer  who  is  in  charge  of  transportation,  or  who  is  em- 
powered to  grant  the  same,  shall  forward,  by  government  conveyance, 
or  at  the  expense  of  government,  or  to  the  exclusion  or  delay  of  gov- 
ernment freight,  any  commodity  or  property  of  any  kind,  unless  the 
same  belongs  to  the  government,  or  some  department  thereof,  except  as 
authorized  by  law. 


"  Sec.  5.  Any  ofiBcer  who  shall  violate  any  provisiou  in  the  foregoing 
sections  shall,  upon  a  conviction  before  a  court  uiiirtial  or  militsiry  court, 
be  cashiered,  and  placed  in  the  ranks  as  a  private  to  serve  during  the 
\7a.T:  provided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  impair  the  civil 
remedy  which  the  government  may  liave  against  any  officer  or  his  sure- 
tics  for  fraud,  peculation,  or  misapplication  of  the  public  uioncys  tn- 
I rusted  to  him  by  the  government. 

'■  Skc.  6.  lie  -it  further  enacted,  That  any  pcr.sou  in  the  employment 
or  service  of  the  government  as  aforesaid,  and  all  other  persons  coming 
within  the  purview  of  this  act,  who  shall  violate  an}'  of  the  provisions 
of  the  foregoing  sections,  shall  be  liable  to  indictment,  and  fined  in  a 
sum  not  less  than  one  thousand  dollars,  and  imprisoned  not  less  than 
one  year  nor  longer  than  five  years,  to  be  imposed  by  the  judge  or  jury 
trying  the  cause,  according  to  the  course  of  judicial  proceeding  in  force 
in  the  several  states  :  provided  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  in  no 
wise  interfere  with  or  impair  the  civil  remedy  which  the  government 
may  have  against  any  of  said  officers,  or  their  securities,  or  employees, 
for  frauds,  peculation,  or  misapplication  of  the  moneys  enjLrusted  to 
them  respectively  by  the  Confederate  Si2X(is  u  provided,  also,  that  all 
conservators  of  the  peace  who,  by  the  laws  of  the  several  states,  have 
jurisdiction  to  commit  or  bind  over  offenders  for  breaches  of  the  crimi- 
nal laws  of  the  state  in  which  they  may  reside,  shall  have  power  to  com- 
mit or  bind  over,  in  a  sufficient  recognizance,  offenders  against  the 
provisions  of  this  law,  to  appear  at  the  next  term  of  the  district  court 
of  the  Confederate  States  within  the  jurisdiction  of  which  the  offence 
was  committed,  for  trial,  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the  same  rules 
as  if  such  preliminary  trial  were  had  before  the  judge  of  such  district 
court;  and  the  judges  of  the  Confederate  courts  having  jurisdiction  of 
the  offences  defined  by  this  act  shall,  at  the  commencement  of  each  ses- 
sion of  their  re.'^pci-tive  courts,  give  this  act  and  its  provisions  especially 
in  charge  to  the  difleront  grand  juries."     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  PAY  OKFICKRS,  NOX-COMM I SSION  EP  OFFICERS,  ANP  PRIVATES 
NOT  LEGALLY  MUSTERED  INTO  THE  SERVICE  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE 
STATES,  FOR  SERVICES  ACTUALLY  PERFORJIED. 

"  The  Oongreas  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
all  oliicers,  non-commissioned  officers,  and  privates  of  any  legally  con- 
stituted military  organization,  which  may  have  been  actually  received 
into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  by  any  general  officer  there- 
of, but  were  never  legally  mustered  into  service,  in  consequence  of  the 
loss  of  the  muster-rolls  of  such  military  organization,  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  pay  from  the  time  they  were  so  received:  provided  the  fact 
of  their  having  been  so  received  into  the  service,  and  the  time  they 


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served,  is  duly  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  un- 
der rules  to  be  prescribed  by  him."     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  TRANSFER  OP  PERSONS  SERVING  IN  THE 
AKMY  TO  THE  NAVY. 
"  The  Oonr/rens  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
all  persons  serving  in  the  land  forces  of  the  Confederate  States,  who 
shall  desire  to  be  transferred  to  the  naval  service,  and  whose  transfer 
as  seamen  or  ordinary  seamen  shall  be  applied  for  by  the  Secretary  of 
the  Navy,  shall  be  transferred  from  the  land  to  the  naval  service :  2}^o- 
vided,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  alter  or  repeal 
any  law  now  in  force  limiting  the  number  of  seamen."  [Approved  May 
1,  1863.] 

AN  ACT  REGULATING  THE  GRANTING  OP  FLTRLOaGHS  AND  DISCHARGES  IN 
HOSPITALS. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  Ainerica  do  enact,  That 
sick,  wounded,  and  disabled  soldiers  in  hospitals  shall  be  entitled  to 
furloughs  and  discharges  under  the  following  rules  and  regulations  : 
In  places  where  there  are  three  or  more  hospitals,  three  surgeons  in 
charge  of  hospitals,  or  divisions  in  hospitals,  shall  constitute  a  board  of 
examiners  for  the  hospitals  to  which  they  belong,  whose  duty  it  shall 
be,  twice  in  each  week,  to  visit  said  hospitals,  and  examine  applicants 
for  furloughs  and  discharges  ;  and  in  all  cases  where  they  shall  find 
an  ai^plicant  for  furlough  unfit  for  military  duty,  either  from  disease  or 
wounds,  and  likely  so  to  remain  for  thirty  days  or  upward,  they  shall 
grant  a  furlough  for  such  time  as  they  shall  deem  him  unfit  for  duty, 
not  to  exceed  sixty  days.  Said  board  shall  keep  a  secretary  or  clerk, 
who  shall  issue  all  furloughs  by  order  of  the  board,  and  shall  specify 
therein  the  time  of  furlough,  the  place  of  the  residence  of  the  soldier,  his 
companj',  regiment,  and  brigade. 

"  Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  no  further  regulation  shall  be 
required  of  the  soldier,  and  no  passport  required  other  than  his  fur- 
lough. 

"  Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  board  may  recommend 
discharges,  stating  the  ground  thereof,  which,  when  approved  by  the 
Surgeon-General  or  the  general  commanding  the  army  or  department 
to  which  the  soldier  belongs,  shall  entitle  him  to  a  discharge,  and  trans- 
portation to  the  place  of  his  enlistment  or  residence. 

"  Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  in  places  where  there  are  but 
two  hospitals,  two  surgeons  in  charge  of  a  hospital,  or  division,  shall 
constitute  a  board  for  the  purposes  aforesaid-;  and  in  places  where  there 
is  but  one,  the  surgeon  in  charge,  and  two  assistant  surgeons,  if  there 


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be  two,  find  if  not,  then  one,  shall  constitute  a  board  for  the  purpose 
aforesaid,  and  may  furlough  and  recommend  discharges  as  aforesaid  : 
provided,  that  no  furlough  shall  be  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  if,  in  the  opinion  of  the  board,  the  life  or  convalescence  of  the  pa- 
tient would  be  endangered  thereby. 

"Sec.  5.  The  house  surgeon  in  all  hospitals  shall  see  each  patient 
under  his  charge  once  every  day."     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inapector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General'b  Office, 

No.  109.  j  Richmond.  August  11, 18C3. 

I.  .A  general  pardon  is  given  to  all  officers  and  men  within  the  Con- 
federacy, now  absent  without  leave  from  the  army,  who  shall  (within 
twenty  days  from  the  publication  of  the  address  of  the  President  in  the 
state  in  which  the  absentees  may  then  bo)  return  to  their  posts  of  duty. 

II.  .All  men  who  have  been  accused  or  convicted,  and  undergoing 
sentence  for  absence  without  leave,  or  desertion,  except  only  those  who 
have  been  twice  convicted  of  desertion,  will  be  returned  to  their  re- 
spective commands  for  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  110.  j  Richmond,  Atujust  12, 1863. 

I.. The  officers  of  ordnance  duties  iu  the  provisional  army,  appointed 
under  the  acts  of  Congress  of  April  21,  and  September  16,  1862,  will, 
until  further  orders,  be  distriVuted  into  grades,  as  authorized  by  the 
latter  act,  as  follows  :  four  lieutenant-colonels,  nine  majors,  sixty-five 
captains,  forty  first  lieutenants,  and  thirty-two  second  lieutenants. 
Appointments  to  these  grades  will  be  made  on  the  report  of  the  Chief 
of  Ordnance.  Those  officers  serving  in  the  field  will  also  be  reported 
by  the  gener.als  commanding  the  army  or  department  prior  to  appoint- 
ment. 


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II.  .Ordnance  officers  on  duty  in  the  tield  will,  as  far  as  practicable, 
be  assfgned  to  command  according  to  rank,  as  follows:  lieutenant- 
colonels  to  armies,  majors  to  army  corps,  captains  to  departments  and 
divisions,  and  lieutenants  to  brigades.  No  claim  to  promotion,  bow- 
ever,  will  be  recognized  in  consequence  of  assignment  to  any  command. 

III.. Two  ordnance  oiBeers,  not  above  the  rank  of  captain,  may  be 
allowed  as  assistants  to  the  chief  ordnance  officer  of  an  army,  and  one, 
not  above  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant,  to  the  chief  ordnance  otEcer  of  an 
army  corps.  One  assistant,  not  above  the  rank  of  second  lieutenant, 
may  also  be  allowed  to  the  chief  ordnance  officer  of  a  department,  when 
absolutely  necessary,  upon  application  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Ordnance. 

IV.. The  designation  of  the  chief  ordnance  officer  attached  to  com- 
mands will  correspond  with    the    designation  of  such    commands:  as 

chief  ordnance  officer  of  the  army  of ;  chief  ordnance  officer  of 

army  corps;  chief  ordnance  officer  of  department:  ord- 
nance officer  of division  ;  ordnance  offictr  of brigade. 

By  order. 

S.    COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDEU-S,)  Adjutant  and  iNSPECTOR-GENEnAL's  Office, 

No.  111.  J  Richmond,  AiiQust  13,  1S63. 

Quartermasters  who  are  purchasing  supplies,  and  who  have  means 
of  transportation  at  their  command,  are  directed  to  assist,  as  far  as 
practicable,  the  quartermasters  receiving  the  tax  in  kind,  in  transport- 
ing the  supplies  collected  from  their  depots  of  collection  to  the  issuing 
depots  of  the  army.  They  Avill  also  permit  their  storehouses  to  be  used 
for  the  storage  of  articles  of  the  produce  tax. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  112.  )  Richmond,  August  15,  1863. 

I.. A  court  of  inquiry  having  been   convened  at  Richmond  on  the 


29th  of  July,  1863,  pursuant  to  paragraph  XVII,  Special  Orders,  No. 
176,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office,  current  series,  to  exam- 
ine into  certain  charges  preferred  against  Major  William  Norris,  Chief 
of  the  Signal  Corps,  and  having  made  the  required  examination,  the 
report  of  fads  proven,  with  the  opinion  of  the  court  thereon,  is  published 
for  the  information  of  all  concerned. 

UKrOUT    OF    FACTS. 

1.  M.ijor  Norris  was  not  intoxicated  on  the  31st  of  May,  1863. 

2.  He  did  not  reveal  the  alphabet  of  the  signal  corps  on  the  31st  of 
May,  1863. 

3.  The  enemy  knew,  or  had  opportunity  to  know,  the  locality  of  the 
signal  stations  between  City  Point  and  Clairniont  before  the  3l8t  of 
May,  1863,  none  of  which  wore  disclosed  to  hiiu  by  Major  Norris  on 
that  day. 

4.  The  despatch  shown  to  -Captain  Mulford  by  Major  Norris  was  a 
private  despatch,  conveying  a  report  of  successes  at  Vicksbnrg. 

6.  There  was  no  improper  intercourse  between  Major  Norris  and  any 
officers  or  persons  in  the  service  of  the  enemy  on  the  31st  of  May,  1863. 

OlMN'IOX. 

The  court  is  of  opinion  that  the  charges  in  this  case  have  been  loose- 
ly made,  and  without  due  care  and  investigation,  and  should  not  be 
further  entertained.  The  court  is,  also,  of  opinion  that  the  private  and 
official  character  of  Major  Norris  remains  unaffectcil  by  this  proceed- 
ing. 

II.. The  charges,  of  which  Major  Norris  has  been  thus  fully  exoner- 
ated by  the  court,  were  made  without  that  consideration  which  their 
serious  character  demanded,  and  in  a  manner  that  subjects  the  prose- 
cutor, Lieutenant  R.  A.  Forbes,  2d  company  independent  signal  corps, 
to  the  grave  censure  of  the  department.  The  personal  and  official 
character  of  an  officer  is  not  to  be  lightly  assailed.  The  accuser  will 
be  held  to  support  his  charges  by  evidence — and  in  an  especial  manner 
is  he  required  to  avoid  creating  the  impression  that  the  loose,  unofficial 
statements  of  others  are  facts  within  his  own  knowledge.  The  greatest 
care  and  consideration  should  be  manifested  by  those  preferring  charges, 
particularly  when  the  reputation,  personal  and  professional,  of  a  supe- 
rior is  called  in  question. 

III.  .The  court  of  inquiry,  of  which  Lieutenant-Colonel  George  Deas, 
Adjutant-CJencral's  department,  was  president,  is  hereby  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPKR, 

Adjutant  and  Inxpector-Gcncral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  |  Adjutant  axd  lN8rECT0R-GENER*L's  Office, 

No.  113.  )  Richmond,  Juffust  18,  1863. 

I.  .Officers  receiving  volunteers  from  those  liable  to  conscription  will 
in  no  case  grant  furloughs  formore  than  ten  days  to  such  volunteers, 
before  entering  on  active  service. 

II.  .Every  man  liable  to  conscription,  volunteering  before  enrolment, 
will  report  himself  and  the  company  in  which  he  volunteers,  and  like- 
wise be  reported  by  his  captain  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for 
the  state,  within  ten  days  after  his  act  of  volunteering — otherwise  be 
will  be  held  subject  to  enrolment  and  assignment. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS."*  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genjjral'^  Office, 

No.  114.  J  Richmond,  August,  22,  1863. 

I.. Permanent  posts  and  depots  established  by  the  Quartermaster's 
department  are  placed  under  the  special  control  of  the  Quartermaster- 
General,  though  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  commanding  officer  of 
the  department  in  which  they  are  located. 

II.  .Changes  in  the  assignment  of  officers  stationed  at  such  posts  and 
depots  will  be  made  only  through  orders  from  this  office  ;  and  no  change 
in  the  location  of  posts  and  depots  will  be  ordered  by  the  department 
commander  except  under  circumstances  of  strong  emergency,  in 
which  cases  a  report  of  such  change,  with  the  reason  therefor,  will  be 
transmitted  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  office. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjdtant  and  Inspector-Geneeal's  Office, 

No.  115.  J  Richmond,  August  24,  1863. 

I.  .The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein,  adopt- 
ed by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, are  announced  for  the    information  of  all  concerned,  and  the 


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special  attention  of  officers  and  agsuts  of  the  government  is  directed 

thereto : 

Kichmnnd,  Aur/HXt  20,  1863. 

Hon,  Jas.  A.  Seddon,  SecrcUtry  of   War  : 

Sir:  The  commissioners  appointed  under  section  5th  of  the  bill  re- 
cently passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress  regulating  impressments, 
being  required  to  agree  upon  and  publish  a  schedule  of  prices  every  two 
months,  or  oftcncr  if  they  should  deem  it  proper,  in  accordance  with 
the  foregoing  requisition  we  respectfully  lay  before  you  the  following 
schedules  of  prices,  marked  A  and  B,  for  the  ensuing  month.  Owing 
to  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  satisfactory  information  as  to  pork,  wo 
have  postponed  the  appraisement  till  our  next  assessment. 

The  following  schedule  presents  the  maximum  prices  to  be  paid  for 
the  articles  appraised  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when 
impressed  elsewhere  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere,  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to  which  the 
Wrticle  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neighborhood,  or  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which  the  government  needs  the 
article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  provided,  that  in  no  case  the  amount 
deducted  for  transportation  as  above,  shall  e.xceed  twenty-five  cents 
per  bushel  for  grain,  and  twenty-five  cents  per  cwt.  for  long  forage, 
flour,  bacon,  iron,  etc.  In  addition  to  the  established  price  of  trans- 
portation, the  government  to  pay  all  legal  tolls ;  and  where  farmers 
can  not  procure  nails  for  baling  forage,  government  to  furnish  the 
same  at  cost,  which  will  be  deducted  from  the  established  price  of 
baling  : 


Schedule  A. 


ARTICLES. 

1  Wheat 

2  i'lour 

3  Corn  

4  Uusliellod   corn... 

5  Corn  meal 

6  Ryo 

7  Cleaned  oats 

S  Wheat  bran 

9  Shorts 

10  Brown  stuff 

11  Ship  stuff. 

12  Bacon ..... 

13  Salt  pork  

14  LanI 

15  Horses 

16  Wool 

17  Wool 

18  Peas 

19  Beans 

20  Potatoes  

21  Potatoes  

22  Onions 

23  Dried   poaches 

2-1:  Drieil   poache.s 

2.5  JJried  apples 

20  Hay,  baled 

27  Hay,  baled 

28  Hay.  unbaled 

29  Sheaf  oats,  baled 

30  .Sheal  oats,  unb"d 

31  Blade  fodder,  bal'd 

32  Blade  fodd'r.nnb'd 

.33  Shuck.s,  baled  

31  Shucks,  unbaled.. 
3.5  AVheat  straw,  bl'd 

36  Wheat  st'w,uub'd 

37  Pasturage 

38  Pasturage 

39  Pasturage 

40  Pasturai;o 

41  Pa-sturago 

42  Pasturage 

43  Salt 

44  Soap  

45  Candles 

40  A'iuegar 

47  Whiskey 

48  Sugar 

49  Molasses 

50  Kice 

51  Coffee 

52  Tea 

53  A'inegar 

54  Pig  iron 

55  Pig  iron 

56  Pig  iron 

57  Bloom  iron 

58  Smiths'  iron 

ii'J  Riiilro.ad  iron 

60  Leather 


Prime 
Good... 
Prime. 


DESCRIPTION. 


Prime... 
Good 

" 

1st  class 
B'air,   or 

Jlerino, 
Fair,    or 

Merino, 
Good 


Superi'r, 
1st  rate.. 

Good 

Superi'r, 
Ist  rate. 
Good 


White,  or  rod 

.Superfine 

White  or  yellow. 
White,  or  yellow 


Artillery,  etc.. 

Washed 

Unwashed 


Irish... 
Sweet . 


Peeled 

Uupeeled 

Peeled 

Timothy,  or  clo- 
ver  

Orchard,  or  herd 
rass 

Orchard,  or  herd 
grass  


Interior 

Near  cities. 


Tallow , 

Cider  

Trade 

Brown 

New  Orleans 


Rio 

Trade 

Manufactured., 
No.  1  quality.... 
No.  2  quality... 
No.  3  quality... 


Round,  pate,  and 
bar 


>   illarness. 


QUANTITY. 

Per  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"    bbl.  of  196  lbs 

'•    bus.  of  56  lbs 

"    bus.  of  66  lbs 

"    bus.  of  50  lbs 

'•    bus.  of  56  1b.s 

"    bus.  of  32  lbs 

"    bus.  of  17  lbs 

'•    bus.  of  22  lbs 

«    bus.  of  28  lbs 

"    bus.  of  37  lbs 

"    pound 

"    pound 

"    pound 

Average  price  per  head 

Per  pound 

"  pound 

•'  bus.  of  60  lbs 

'=  bus.  of  60  lbs 

'•  bus.  of  60  lbs 

'•  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"  bus.  of  38  lbs 

'•  bus.  of  38  lbs 

"  bus.  of  28  lbs 

"     100  pounds 

•'    100  jjounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pound.s 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pound.s 

'•  head  per  month.... 

•'  head  per  month.... 

■'  head  per  month.... 

'•  head  per  month.... 

"  head  per  month... 

"  head  per  month.... 

"  bus.  of  50  lbs 

"  pound 

"  pound 

"  gallon 

'"  gallon 

"  pound 

'•  gallon 

"  pound 

'•  pound 

"  pound 

•'  gallon 

"  ton 

''  ton 

"  ton 

"  ton 

"     ton 

"     ton 

"    pound 


Sohedij'I.e   a — Contiuued. 


ARTICLES. 


QU  AUTY.        DESCMPTION. 


qUANTlTT. 


Leather 

Leather 

I'ccf  cattle 

Beef  cattle 

Buef  cattle 

Sheep 

Army  wooloii  cl'b 

J^yarrt 

Army  woolen  cl'h 

Army  woolen  cl'h 

(1-4  yard 

Armv  woolen  clh 


Flannels V 

Cotton  sliirfg...% 
Cotton  sliirt'g...>2 
Cotton  <<licet'g..4-4 
Cotton  osnab'gs% 
Cotton  osnab'gs  i^ 
Cotton  drills. ...t^ 
Cot.  shirt,  stripes 
Cot.  tent  cloths... 


Good 

Sole 

«     

Oro.?s  weight 

Supori'r, 

Gross  weight 

1st  rate.. 

Good 

10  oz.  per  yard... 

"    

Pro     rata  as    to 

greater  or    le."!? 

width  or  weight 

"    

20  oz.  per  yard... 

''    

Pra    rata   as   to 

greater   or  less 

width  or  weight 

"    

6  07,.  per  vnrd 

"    

4VK  yards  to  lb... 
.3%  vards  to  lb... 

"    

3  yards  to  lb 

"    

6  oz.  per  yard.... 

"    

8  oz.  per  yard.... 

'•    

3  vards  to  lb 

"    

3  yards  to  lb 

'•    

10  oz.  per  yard... 

Per  pound 

"    pound 

"  100  pounds.. 
"  100  pounds.. 
"  100  pounds.. 
"    head 


yard.. 


2  40 
2  80 
16  00 
18  00 
20  00 
30  00 

4  50 


Per  yard.. 


3  00 
42 
50 
60 
60 
70 
70. 
70 
**" 

On  the  above  enumerated  cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater  or  less  width 
or  weight. 

C<itton  warps iGood j 

Army  shoes "     

Shoe  thread "    ; 

Wool  socks,  men's      "    

Mules list  rate..:Wagon,  etc, 


Per  yard.. 
"  yard.. 
"  yard.. 
"  yard . 
"  yurd.. 
'■  yard.. 
"  yard.. 
"  Jard.. 
vard.. 


Per  pound I 

"     pair j 

■'    pound I 

"    pair. 

Average  price  per  head| 


1  63 

10  00 

i:  00 

1  25 
300  00 


In  assessing  the  average  value  of  "  first-class  artillery  and  wagon  horses 
at  $350,"  we  designed  that  the  term  should  be  accepted  and  acted  upon 
according  to  its  obvious  common  sense  import  In  other  words, 
that  horses  should  be  selected,  and  then  impressed  accordingly  as  their 
working  qualities  and  adaptation  to  army  service,  together  with  their 
intrinsic  value,  would  warrant  a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering 
them  as  coming  within  the  contemplation  of  the  commissioners  when 
they  assessed  the  average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  goverpment  need- 
ed at  S350.  But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  e.\igcn- 
cies  would  be  so  urgent  as  to  demand  tliat  all  horses  at  hand  should  be 
impressed.  Yet,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  familj'  or  extra- 
blooded  horses,  or  brood  loares  oH admitted  high  value,  are  impressed,  we 
respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have  instructions  for- 
warded to  the  iuipres.^ing  orticers  to  propose  and  allow  the  owners  to 
snhxtitutK  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound,  and  serviceable  horses  or 
mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued,  by  competent  and  disinterest- 
ed parties,  as  first-class  artillery  hor.ses,  or  lirst-ratc  wagon  mules. 

The  term  "average  value  per  head"  was  used  in  contra-distinction  to 
a  fixed  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We  supposed  that 
in  impressing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whether  owned  by  several 
persons,  or  one  individual,  that  some   might  be  estimated  at  $250,  or 


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even  at  less,  and  others'  at  different  advanced  rates,  according  to  their 
worth,  up  as  high  as  $450,  or  above  that  amount — thus  making  an 
areraice  value  or  price  for  a  number  of  good,  sound,  and  efficient  horses 
$350  each,  and  mules  $300  each. 

In  illustration  of  our  views  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with  only  one  eye 
sound  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  a  first-rate  artillery  horse, 
yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and  considerably  curtail  his  value. 
So,  a  horse  from  ten  to  eighteen  years  of  age  might  be  deemed,  in  all 
other  particulars,  as  a  first-class  artillery  horse,  but,  of  course,  however 
efficient  or  able  to  render  good  service  for  a  year  or  so,  yet  his  ad- 
vanced age  would  justly  and  materially  impair  his  value.  Any  horse, 
however  he  may  approximate  the  standard  of  a  first-class  artillery  horse, 
must,  according  to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum  price ;  and  as 
few,  comparatively,  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  therefore  are 
entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so,  of  course,  in  all  other  instances  the 
price  should  be  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfections  place  them 
below  the  standard  of  first  class,  etc. 

E.    W.    HUBARD, 

Robert  Gibboney, 
Commissioners  for    Virginia. 


i:JU 


Schedule  B—Hire  of  Labor,  Teaim,   Wagom,  and  Drivers. 


1  Baling  long  forage 

2  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur- 

nished by  the  government 

3  Hauling 

4  Hauling  grain 

6  Hire  of  two-horse  team,  wagon,  and  driv 

er,  rations  furnished  by  owner 

6  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

7  Hire    of  four-horse    team,  wagon,   and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . . . 

8  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

9  Hire  of  six-horse  team,  wagon,  and  driv- 

er, rations  furnished  by  owner 

10  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

11  Hire   of  laborer,   rations  furnished    by 

owner 

12  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

13  Hire    of  same,     rations    furnished    by 

owner 

14  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 


QUANTITY  AND  TIME. 

Per  100  pounds  ... 

"  56  pounds  .. . 
"  cwt.  per  mile. . 
"     bus.  per  mile. . 

"  day 

"  day 

"  day 

"  day 

"  day 

"  day 

"  day 

"  day 

"  month 

"  month 


$  0  30 

05 
06 
03 

10  00 

5  00 
13  00 

6  50 
16  00 

8  00 

2  00 

1  00 

40  00 

20  00 


Bv  order. 


E.    W.    HUBARD, 

Robert  Gibbonev, 
Commissioners  for  Virginia. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 
No.  116. 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 
Richmond,  August  31, 1863. 


I..  Generals,  or  other  oflScers  commanding  departments,  armies  in  the 
field,  posts,  or  garrisons,  will  cause  all  deserters,  stragglers,  or  other 
absentees  from  duty,  and  all  persons  liable  to  military  service,  found 
within  their  lines,  and  not  belonging  to  their  command,  to  be  forthwith 
arrested  and  turned  over  to  the  nearest  enrolling  officer,  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  forward  such  abseutees  to  their  proper  command,  or,  in  case 
of^conscripts,  to  assign  them  to  service  in  the  army  nearest  to  his  post, 
according  to  his  discretion. 


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II..  Under  instructions  from  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  an  enroll- 
ing officer  will  be  attached  to  each  military  department  to  carry  out  the 
purposes  indicated  in  paragraph  I. 

III.  .Overseers  entitled  to  exemption  will  be  exempted  from  military 
service  for  one  year,  when  the  OTvner  of  the  slaves  of  whom  the  over- 
seer has  had  charge  shall  present  to  the  enrolling  officer  the  receipt  of 
a  quartermaster  for  the  amount  of  the  tax  imposed  in  such  cases  by  the 
act  of  Congress  approved  May  1,  1863.  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's 
department  are  directed  to  receive  and  receipt  for  money  thus  paid. 
By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  117.  J  Richmond,  September  3, 1863. 

I.  .In  any  case  where  the  exigencies  of  the  army  compel  impressment 
or  purchase,  for  its  use,  of  the  whole  of  any  one  article,  or  all  articles 
of  the  planter's  production,  taxed  in  kind,  the  post  quartermaster  of  the 
district  will  transfer  to  his  district  collector  the  assessor's  estimate,  to 
be  collected  in  the  money  value  only,  at  the  rate  of  purchase  or  im- 
pressment, as  the  case  may  be.  Before  making  such  tran'sfer,  the  post 
quartermaster  of  the  district  will  credit  the  producer  upon  such  esti- 
mates with  the  amount  of  such  articles  as  he  may  have  paid  in  kind, 
and  endorse  thereon  the  circumstances  under  which  the  transfer  is 
made. 

II.  .Controlling  and  post  quartermasters  of  districts  will  keep  and 
report  their  accounts  relating  to  tax  in  kind,  separate  and  distinct  from 
all  others. 

III.  .Producers  are  required  to  deliver  the  wheat,  corn,  oats,  rye, 
buckwheat,  rice,  peas,  beans,  cured  hay  and  fodder,  sugar,  molasses  of 
cane,  wool,  and  tobacco,  in  such  form  and  ordinary  marketable  condi- 
tion as  may  be  usual  iu  the  section  in  which  they  are  delivered — cotton 
ginned  and  packed  in  some  secure  manner — tobacco  stripped  and  pack- 
ed in  boxes. 

IV.. Where  post  quartermasters  of  districts  entrust  agents  with  dis- 
bursements, care  must  be  taken  that  receipts  and  accounts  be  stated  in 
the  name  of  the  pdst  quartermaster. 


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v.  .Quartermasters  aud  commissaries  serving  with  troops  may  receive 
the  tithe  tax,  when  authorized  to  do  so  by  the  chief  quartermaster  or 
chief  commissary  of  the  army  in  which  they  arc  serving.  The  names  of 
such  authorized  officers  will  be  reported  to  the  Quartermaster-General. 

VI.. Where  producers  offer  to  pay  their  tithe  tax  to  officers  author- 
ized to  receive  it,  it  is  obligatory  upon  the  latter  to  receive  the  produce, 
and  to  pay  the  excess  of  transportation  over  eight  miles,  at  the  rates 
prescribed  by  state  commissioners  under  the  impressment  act.  In  each 
case  they  will  receipt  to  the  post  quartermaster  of  the  district  for  the 
produce.  Upon  this  receipt  the  receiving  officer  will  be  responsible  for 
the  quantity  which  he  will  take  up  on  his  property  return.  The  receipt 
given  to  the  producer  will  only  be  evidence  that  so  much  of  his  tax  is 
paid.  In  all  such  itceipts  the  name  of  the  producer  and  his  county 
will  be  stated. 

By  order. 

■  S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDEK.S,  |  Adjutant  and  iNsrECToa-GENKRAL's  Office, 

No.  118.  )  RIC^MO^fD,  September  1. 1863. 

I.  .All  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  serving  at  posts  or 
depots  will  report  immediately  to  the  Quartermaster-General  their  lo- 
cation, the  character  of  the  duties  discharged  by  them,  and  by  whoso 
order  they  wore  so  assigned. 

II.. The  principal  quartermaster  at  each  post  or  depot  will  like- 
wise report  the  names  of  all  quartermasters  serving  thereat.  Ho  will 
also  examine  carefully  into  the  occupation  of  each  officer,  and  will  de- 
signate such  as  can  be  spared  for  service  elsewhere. 

III.  .The  chief  quartermaster  of  each  separate  army  will  forward  to 
the  Qu.arterraaster-General,  at  the  earliest  practicable  day,  a  complete 
list  of  all  bis  subordinates,  stating  specifically  tlie  regiment,  brigade, 
division,  or  corps  to  which  each  may  be  attached,  or,  when  engaged  on 
special  duty,  the  character  thereof. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  nnd  Inspector-General. 


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QKNEKAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspectoii-Qiineralb  Office, 

No.  119.  j  Richmond,  September  7,  18C3. 

I.. All  officers  and  agents  of  the  Quartermaster's,  CommisEary,  and 
Conscription  departments  will  render  all  assistance  in  their  power  in 
collecting  arms  abandoned  or  left  by  stragglers  in  the  hands  of  citizens. 

II-. Arms  thus  collected  will  be  turned  over  to  the  nearest  ordnance 
officer,  who  will  receipt  for  the  same,  and,  upon  proper  vouchers,  pay 
any  reasonable  expense  actually  incurred  for  transportation. 

III.  ."Medical  inspectors  will  be  recommended  by  the  Surgeon-Gener- 
al, and,  being  approved,  will  be  announced  in  orders  from  this  office." 

IV.. As  heretofore  required  in  General  Orders,  No.  64-,  of  18G2,  re- 
specting the  hides  of  beeves,  commissaries  of  subsistence  in  the  field 
and  at  depots  will  transfer  the  hides  of  all  slaughtered  sheep  to  officers 
of  the  Quartermaster's  department,  who  will  receive  and  preserve  them 
to  be  tanned. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General.- 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  aNd  Inspector-General's  Ofi'ice, 

No.  120.  j  Richmond,  September  8, 1863. 

I.. At  a  general  court  martial  convened  at  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 
June  24, 1863,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  69,  dated  Head-quarters 
Army  of  Tennessee,  March  16, 1863,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Captain  G.  D.  Mitchell,  Assistant-Quartermaster,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the 
following  charge.  (The  specifications,  being  very  lengthy,  arc  here 
omitted.) 

Charge :  Conduct  unbecoming  an  officer  and  gentleman. 

II.  .Finding  and  Sentence  of  Court. 

After  mature  deliberation,  the  court  find  the  accused,  Captain  G.  D. 
Mitchell,  Assistant-Quartermaster,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  as  follows  : 

Of  the  Ist  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Specification  :  Guilty. 
Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 


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And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  liaving  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  consideration  of  the  President,  the  fol- 
lowing is  his  order  thereon  : 

The  sentence  of  the  court,  in  (his  case,  is  not  approved — the  evidence 
not  being  sutricicut  to  support  the  charge. 
By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Ocneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"j  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  121.  J  Richmond,  September  9,  1863. 

I.  .Paragraph  1,064  of  the  Arnay  Regulations  (107  of  the  Regulations 
of  the  Quartermaster's  department)  is  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

"  Officers  are  entitled  to  pay  from  the  date  of  the  acceptance  of  their 
appointments,  and  from  the  date  of  promotion:  provided,  that  disburs- 
ing officers,  who  are  required  to  give  official  bonds,  shall  forward  the 
same,  always  duly  executed,  with  their  letters  of  acceptance,  and  that 
their  acceptances  shall  take  efl'ect  only  from  the  date  of  the  approval  of 
the  bonds  by  the  War  department ;  but  in  no  case  will  an  oificcr  be  as- 
signed to  duty,  and  receive  pay,  until  he  has  received  his  appciintment. 
Notifications  of  the  receipt  and  approval  of  said  bonds  will  be  forwarded 
to  officers  through  the  chief  of  the  bureau  to  which  they  belong." 

II.. All  officers  of  the  Quartermaster-General's  and  Commiesnry- 
Gcneral's  departments  (except  such  as  hold  commissions  in  the  regular 
army  of  the  Confederate  States),  appointed  prior  to  the  commencement 
of  the  present  session  of  Congress  (January  12,  1S63),  and  whose 
bonds,  prior  to  the  date  of  this  order,  have  not  been  filed  in  and  ap- 
proved by  the  War  department,  are  hereby  dropped  :  jtrovided,  that  on 
satisfactory  evidence  that  such  failure  has  not  been  the  result  of  gross 
neglect,  the  commanding  general  may  grant  the  officers  concerned  a 
short  leave  of  absence  to  make  and  forward  their  bonds,  and  shall  re- 
port this  fact  to  the  Quartermaster-General. 

III.. No  application  for  the  revocation  of  the  above  order,  in  any 
individual  case,  will  be  entertained  by  the  War  department.  If  a  va- 
cancy be  occasioned  in  any  brigade  or  regiment,  or  at  a  post,  application 
will  bo  made  for  a  new  appointment,  in  conformity  to  General  Orders, 


144 

No.  8,  1S63;  and  the  appointee,  in  accepting  his  position,  will  be  hold 
strictly  to  the  requirements  of  preceding  paragraph  I. 

IV.. Officers  of  the  Quartermaster-Gcncrurs  department,  whose  ap- 
pointments bear  date  subsequent  to  the  12th  day  of  January,  1863,  and 
who  have  not  filed  bonds,  duly  executed,  will  be  allowed  a  furlough  for 
such  time,  not  exceeding  sixty  days,  as  may  be  necessary  to  enable 
them  to  execute  their  bonds. 

'V.  .Commanding  oflBcers  will  be  careful  to  recommend  for  appoint- 
ment, as  disbursing  officers,  only  such  persons  as  furnish  reasonable 
assurance  of  their  ability  to  execute  the  bonds  required  by  law. 

VI.  .AH  letters  of  appointment  hereafter  issued  will  be  accompanied 
by  a  notification  to  the  appointee  that  bis  official  bond  must  be  return- 
ed with  his  acceptance,  and  that  the  latter  will  take  effect  only  from  the 
date  at  which  said  bond  is  approved. 
By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutfint  and  Inspector-Oenerul. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  122.  f  Richmond,  September  11,  1863. 

I.  .Commanding  officers  of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  will,  immedi- 
ately on  receipt  hereof,  cause  to  be  made  out  and  forwarded,  through 
proper  channels,  to  Colonel  J.  S.  Preston,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Con- 
scription, a  complete  list  of  all  persons  held  as  substitutes  in  the  army, 
in  their  respective  commands.  This  list  will  embrace  the  regiment, 
company,  date  of  enlistment,  and  age  of  each  substitute,  with  the  name 
and  post-office  of  the  principal.  They  will  also,  in  the  same  manner, 
furnish  a  monthly  roll  of  all  deserters,  and  absentees  without  leave. 
This  will  be  arranged  according  to  the  county  and  congressional  dis- 
trict to  which  the  parties  belong,  and  will  set  forth  the  time  and  place 
of  desertion  in  each  case. 

II.. All  officer.^!,  charged  by  commanding  generals  with  the  duty  of 
arresting  and  returning  deserters  and  absentees,  will  report  to  the  com- 
mandant of  conscripts  in  the  respective  states  to  which  such  officers  arc 
sent,  and  will  co-operate  generally  with  enrolling  officers  in  the  dis- 
charge of  the  duties  assigned  to  them. 


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III.  .Tho  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information 
of  all  coneorned  : 

"  Every  person,  not  subject  to  tho  Rules  and  Articles  of  War,  who 
shall  procure  or  entice  a  soldier  of  the  Confederate  States  to  desert,  or  " 
who  shall  purchase  from  any  soldier  his  arms,  uniform,  clothing,  or  any 
part  thereof,  shall,  upon  legal  conviction,  bo  fined,  at  the  discretion  of 
the  court  having  cogniz.anee  of  the  same,  in  any  sum  not  exceeding 
three  hundred  dollars,  and  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year," 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

^°-  ^^^-  )  RiCHMOiTD,  Sfpt^-.mber  16,  18&3. 

The  following  order  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

EXCnANOE    NOTICE,  NO.  6. 

The  following  Confederate  ofltoers  and  men,  captured  at  Vicksburg, 
Mississippi,  July  4,  18(53,  and  subsequently  paroled,  have  been  duly 
exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared  : 

1.  Tho  officers  and  men  of  General  C.  L.  Stevenson's  division. 

2.  The  officers  and  men  of  General  Bowen's  division. 

3.  The  officers  and  men  of  Brigadier-General  Moore's  brigade. 

4.  The  officers  and  men  of  the  2d  Texas  regiment. 

5.  The  officers  and  men  of  Waul's  legion. 

6.  Also,  all  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at 
City  Point  at  any  time  previous  to  July  25,  1863,  have  been  duly  ox- 
changed,  and  are  hereby  so  declared. 

Ro.    OULD, 
Agent  of  Exchange. 
Richmond,  Se^jtemher  12,  186?. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"}  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  124.  j  RiOHMOND,  September  22,  1863. 

I.. Potatoes  (sweet),  gathered    under  the   tax    law  by    commisaar- 


H6 

ries  and  quarterinasters,  at  or  within  reach  of  places  where  hospitals 
are  located,  will  bo  transferred  (invoices  and  receipts  being  given)  to 
the  medical  oflicers  in  charge  of  the  hospitals,  to  be  cared  for  and  se- 
cured against  the  influences  of  frost,  etc.,  for  the  use  of  the  sick.  Or 
farmers,  when  the  hospitals  are  more  convenient  of  access  than  the  de- 
pots,, may  deliver  their  potatoes  (tax  in  kind)  to  the  medical  officer  in 
charge,  taking  receipts,  which  will  be  acknowledged  by  the  tax  agent. 

II.  .The  pay  of  surgeons  (private  physicians)  employed  under  Gener- 
al Orders,  No.  82,  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  otfice,  of  1862,  is 
increased  to  six  dollars  per  diem,  until  further  orders. 

III.  ."Assistant  Medical  Directors"  and  ^'Assistant  Medical  Inspec- 
tors" not  being  authorized,  the  titles  will  not  be  used. 

IV.  .The  extra  pay  allowed  soldiers  detailed  for  duty  as  commissary 
sergeants  by  the  act  of  Congress  approved  May  1,  1863,  will  be  paid 
upon  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  the  companies  to  which  they  belong, 
by  the  quartermasters  charged  with  the  duty  of  paying  troops. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
9Adjutunl  and  Inspector- Gcuei-al. 


GENEKAIj  orders,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gener.vl's  Office, 

No.  125.  )  Richmond,  September,  1863. 

I. .  Information  having  boon  received  of  repeated  misconstructions  and 
violations  of  paragraph  XII,  General  Orders,  No.  82,  1862,  it  is  reiter- 
ated that  no  persons  liable  to  conscription  will  be  permitted,  under  any 
circumstances,  to  volunteer  in  regiments,  battalions,  or  companies 
organized  since  the  16th  of  April,  1862,  except  such  as  were  organized 
under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  that  date  entitled  "An 
act  further  to  provide  for  the  public  defence." 

II.  .No  authority  exists  for  organizing  new  companies  out  of  compa- 
nies or  portions  of  companies  now  in  service. 

III.  .It  shall  be  the  duty  of  commandants  of  conscripts,  on  informa- 
tion of  persons  being  received  into  companies  contrary  to  the  provis- 
ions of  this  order,  to  make  immediate  requisition  for  such  persons  on 
the  officer  commanding,  and  on  failure  of  the  oflicer  to  return  the  per- 
sons Bo  received  to  the  camp  of  instruction,  the  commandant  shall  re- 


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port  the  matter,  with  tlio  facts  of  the  case,  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion, to  bo  decided  by  this  department. 

IV.. No  officer  commanding,  whoso  company  reaches  the  maximum 
allowed  by  regulations,  shall  bo  permitted  to  receive  recruits,  either  as 
volunteers  or  in  any  other  form. 

V.  .No  officer  commanding  shall  accept  or  muster  in  persons  of  con- 
script age,  unless  such  persons  shall  first  exhibit  a  certificate,  approved 
by  an  enrolling  officer,  stating  that  he  has  volunteered  and  selected  his 
company,  which  company  is  allowed  to  receive  recruits. 

VI.. The  Bureau  of  Conscription  is  charged  with  the  establishment  of 
such  regulations  as  will  enforce  this  order. 

VII.. Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  122,  Septcraher  11,  1S63,  is 
so  modified  as  to  read  as  follows: 

"  Commnnding  officers  of  regiments,  battalions,  etc.,  will,  immediatel}' 
on  receipt  hereof,  cause  to  bo  made  out  and  forwarded,  through  proper 
channels,  to  Colonel  J.  S.  Preston,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Conscription, 
a  complete  list  of  all  persons  received  as  substitutes  in  the  army  in 
their  respective  commands.  The  list  will  enirbrace  the  regiment,  com- 
pany, date  of  enlistment,  and  age  of  each  substitute,  with  name,  post- 
office,  and  date  of  enlietment  of  the  principal.  It  will  also  state  whether 
the  giibstitiife  is  now  serving,  or  has  died  or  been  killed  while  in  or  dis- 
chargcd  from  service,  or  I'hctherhc  hasdcsertcd,  with  the  datcand  circum- 
stances of  deaths,  discharge,  or  desertion.  They  will,  also,  in  the  same 
manner,  furnish  a  monthly  roll  of  all  deserters  and  absentees  without 
leave.  This  roll  will  be  arranged  according  to  the  county  and  congres- 
sional district  to  which  the  parties  belong,  and  will  set  forth  the  time  and 
place  of  desertion  in  each  case." 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General, 


GENERAL  ORDKUS.^I  Adjutant  and  Inspf.otoh-General's  Oi'fici:, 

No.  126.  j  Richmond,  September  28, 1863. 

I.  .In  order  to  avoid  all  dilficulty  with  respect  to  payment  of  officers 
absent  from  their  commands,  and  who  have  not  received  commissions 
or  letters  of  appointment,  it  is  ordered  that  all  such  officers  shall,  bo- 


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fore  leaving  thoir  companies,  be  fiu-nished  with  a  transcript  from  the 
muster-rolls,  or  a  certificate  in  lieu  thereof,  as  may  be  convenient,  set- 
ting out  the  full  name,  rank,  and  date  thereof  of  such  officer,  and  that 
he  is  borne  on  the  muster-roll  as  such.  These  transcripts  or  certificates 
will  be  signed  by  the  eommandiug  officer  of  the  regiment  and  company, 
and  will  be  equivalent  with  the  pay  officer  to  the  commission  or  letter 
of  appointment  referred  to  in  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  121,  of 
1863.  This  provision,  however,  is  not  designed  to  dispense  with  the 
requirements  of  General  Orders,  No.  28,  j)aragraphs  II  and  III,  current 
series. 

II.  .Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  116,  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General's  office,  is  so  modified  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

"  Generals,  or  other  officers  commanding  departments,  armies  in  the 
field,  posts,  or  garrisons,  will  cause  all  deserters,  stragglers,  or  other  ab- 
sentees from  duty,  and  all  persons  liable  to  military  service,  found 
within  their  lines,  and  not  belonging  to  their  command,  to  be  forthwith 
arrested  and  turned  over  to  the  nearest  enrolling  officer,  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  forward  such  absentees  to  their  proper  commands ;  or,  in 
case  of  conscripts,  to  assign  them  to  service,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
commandant  of  conscripts  of  the  state." 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Abjittant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No,  127.  j  Richmond,  September  29,  1863. 

In  view  of  the  importance  of  pressing  the  home  production  of  nitre, 
the  workmen  in  exposed  districts  will  be  called  from  their  work  for  local 
defence  only  in  cases  of  extreme  military  urgency,  and  then  only  by  the 
general  commanding  the  district,  by  an  order  to  the  officer  in  charge. 

In  the  nitre  districts  lately  overrun,  the  workmen  will  be  returned  to 
their  work,  and  all  reasonable  facilities  for  resuming  operations  will  bo 
extended  by  military  officers. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENKr.AL  ORDERS, 
No.  128. 


11 'J 

Adjutant  and  Tnspector-Qenkrai.'s  OrriCF, 
Richmond.  Va.,  S^pUmber  30, 1863. 


I-.Tlie  following  schedule  of  prices,  for  articles  named  therein, 
adopted  by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law  for  the  State  of 
South  Carolina,  are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  concerned, 
and  the  special  attention  of  officers  and  agents  of  the  government  13 
directed  thereto  : 


//• .  Sc]n:Jiilc  of  prices  established  htf  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  the 
Stale  of  South  Carolina,  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  the  Confederate 
States  "  to  regulate  impressments  :" 


Apples,  dried 
Apples,  dried. 

Axci 

Axes 

Biicon 

Bacon 

Bacon 

BacoD 

Beans 

Brandy 

Brandy 

Beef 

Beef. 

Beef  Catile.... 

Candles 

Chains 

Cloth  


CoJTce  

Corn 

Corn 

Corn  Meal 
Drills 

Flour 

Flour 

Flour 

Flour 

Flour 

Flour  

Fodder 

Fodder 

Hat« 

nay 

Hay 

Hogs 

Hogt 

Hides. 

Hides 


Good, 


DBSCRIPTIOX. 


Peeled 

Unpeeled 

With  handles 

Without  handles 

Sides 

Hams 

Shouldera 

Jowls 

White  or  cornfield 

Apple 

Peach  

Fresh,  not 

Salt  or  corned  

Gross  

Tallow 

Trace 

Woolen,   for    soldiers 
clothes,  ^^  yard   wide, 
10  oz.  to  yard,  and  pro 
rata  as   to  greater   or 
less  weight  or  width... 

Rio 

Unshelled 

Shelled,  sacks  not  includ- 
ed   

Sacks  not  included 

Cotton,  %  yard   wide,  3 
yards  to  pound 

Extra  Family 

Kxfr.i  Family 

Supertino  

Superfine  

Fiue 

Fine 

Baled  

Unh.aled 

Wool 

Baled  

Unhaled 

Not 

Gross 

Dry 

Green 


IPer  bushel  of  28  lbs. 
]  Per  bushel  of  28  lbs. 

lEach , 

Each 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  bushel 

Per  gallon 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pair 


Per  yard 

Per  pound 

Per  bushel  of  70  lbs.. 

Per  bushel  of  ,56  lbs.. 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs.. 

Per  yard  

Per  barrel  of  196  lbs 

Per  sack  of  98  lbs 

Per  barrel  of  196  lbs 

Per  sjick  of  98  lbs 

Per  barrel  of  196  lbs 

Per  sack  of  98  lbs 

Per  100  i)ounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Each 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 


$3  00 

2  00 
6  00 
4  00 

75 
70 
65 
40 

3  00 

4  00 

5  00 
25 
60 
18 

1  00 

2  50 


4  00 
3  00 

1  95 

2  00 
2  00 

65 
22  00 
11  00 
20  00 
10  00 
18  00 
9  00 
2  50 

2  00 

3  25 
1  50 
1  25 

35 

25 

1  25 

50 


150 


DESCRIPTION. 


Horses 

Horses 

Iron 

Iron 

Iron 

irou 

Iron 

Iron 

Irou  

Jeans  

Kettles 

Lard 

Leather 

Leather 

Leatlier 

Molasses  .... 
Molasses  .... 

Mules 

Mules 

Mules 

Oats 

Oats 

Oats 

Osnaburgs.. 

Osuaburgs.. 

Peas 

Potatoes 

Potatoes 

Peaches,  dried, 
Peaches,  dried. 

Pork 

Pork 

Paitnrage .. 

Pasturage .. 

Bice 

Rice 

Ryo 

Sacks  

Shirting 

Shirting  .... 

Cotton  stripes, 

Salt 

Salt 

Shoes 

Shoe  thread. 

Socks  

Sheep , 

Sugar 

Sugar , 

Soap , 

Soap , 

Shucks  

Shucks  

Tea 

Tea 

Tent  cloth... 
Tallow 


Good, 


Artillery,  1st  class 

Artillery.  2d  class 

Pig ••• 

Squiiro  or  Round 

Flat  or  Band 

Hoop  

Boiler  Plate 

Serviceable  Railroad 

Unserviceable  Railroad... 

Wool,  domestic 

Camp,  iron 

Clean 

Sole 

Upper 

Harness 

Cane 

Sorghum 

1st  class 

2d  class .... 

3d  class  

Sheaf,  nnbaled 

Sheaf,  baled 

Shelled  

Cotton,  %  yard  vide,  7 

oz.  to  yard 

Cotton,  %  yard  wide,  8 

oz.  to  yard 

Cow 

Irish 

Sweet 

Peeled 

Unpeeled 

Fresh 

Salt 

Cattle  and    horses   near 

city 

Intei'ior 

New 

Old 

Good 

Two  bushels,  osnaburg... 
Cotton,  %  yard  wide,  4i-^ 

yards  to  pound 

Cotton,  %  yard  wide,  'i'% 

yards  to  pound 

Three  yards  to  pound 

Coast   

Liverpool  

Army 

Flax.; 

Soldiers,  wool 

Fat 

Brown,  common 

Brown,  common 

Hard 

Soft 

Baled  

Unbilled 

Black 

Green 

Cotton,  10  oz.  to  yard 

Clean  


Per  head 

Per  head 

Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 
Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 
Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 
Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 
Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 
Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 
Per  ton  of  2,240  lbs. 

Per  yard 

Each 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  gallon 

Per  head  

Per  head  

Per  head  

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  bushel  of  34  lbs. 

Per  yard  

Per  yard  

Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  33  lbs, 
Per  bushel  of  38  lbs. 

Per  pound 

Per  ijound  

Per  head  per  month. 
Per  head  per  month. 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  bushel  of  50  lbs. 
Each 

Per  yard  

Per  yard  

Per  yard  

Per  Isusbel  of  50  lbs. 
Per  bushel  of  60  lbs. 

Per  pair 

Per  pound 

Per  pair 

Per  head  

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  pouud 

Per  pound 

Per  yard 

Per  pound 


$500  00 
400  00 
85  00 
350  00 
320  00 
440  00 
500  00 
175  00 
75  00 

4  00 

5  00 
75 

2  50 

3  25 
3  00 
5  00 
3  00 

400  00 

350  00 

250  00 

2  00 

2  50 

1  50 


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DESCRIVTIOX. 


Vinegar 

Vinegar 

Whiskey 

AVheat 

Wheat 

Wheat 

Wheat  Straw 
Wheat  Straw 

Wool 

Wool 

WagoiiH 

Wagons 

Wagons 

Wagons 

Yarn 


Cider  

Maunfactured  

Good 

First  rate,  wliite 

Fair 

Ordinary 

Baled 

Unl>aled 

Washed 

Unwaslied 

Wood  axlo,  4  horse,  new. 
Iron  axle.  4  horse,  new.. 
Wood  axlo,  2  horso,  new, 
Iron  axle,  2  horse,  now.. 
Cotton 


Per  gallon 

Per  gallon 

Per  gallon 

Per  bushel  of  60  lbs 
Per  bushel  of  60  lbs 
Per  bushel  of  00  lbs 

Per  loo  pounds 

Per  100  pouuda 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Kich 

Each 

Bach 

Each ^ 

Per  bunch  of  5  lbs  . 


Hire  of  Labor,  Teams,   Wagons,  and  Horaet. 


PESCKIPTION. 


B.aling  long  forage 

Shelling  and  sacking  corn,  sacks  furnished 
by  government 

Hauling 

Hire  of  two-horso  team,  wagon,  and  driver, 
rations  furnished  by  owner 

Hire  of  two-borsc  team,  wagon,  and  driver, 
rations  furnished  by  government 

Hire  of  four-horse  team,  wagon,  and  driver, 
rations  furnished  by  owner 

Hire  of  four-horse  team,  wagon,  and  driver, 
rations  furnished  by  government 

Hire  of  six-horso  tcnm,  wagon,  and  driver, 
rations  furnished  by  owner 

Hire  of  six-hor.=e  team,  wagon,  and  driver, 
rations  furnished  by  government 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furuished  by  ov^ner. 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by  govern- 
ment   

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by  owner 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by  govern- 
ment   


Per  100  pounds, 

"    bus.  of  56  lbs. 
"     100  lbs.  p.  ml. 


day  . 

day 

day 

day 

day 

day 
day 


"     day  . . . 

"     month . 

"     month . 


15  00 


The  undersigned,  commissioners  and  appraisers  under  the  dct  of 
Congress  for  regulating  the  impres.sments  for  South  Carolina,  have 
adopted  the  foregoing  schedule  of  prices,  which  they  think  is  fair  and 
equitable  under  existing  circumstances.  They  hope  that  the  producer 
will  be  willing  not  only  to  sell  to  the  government  at  these  prices,  but  to 
private  individuals,  and  especially  to  the  families  of  soldiers  who  are 


153 

in  the  service  of  their  couutry.  Tho  present  is  no  time  for  those  \vho 
are  at  home  to  be  speculating  on  the  necessities  of  a  bleeding  country. 
They  should  consider  that,  whilst  the  patriotic  and  gallant  soldier  in  the 
army  is  offering  his  blood  and  his  life  as  a  sacrifice  for  independence, 
that  they,  too,  are  called  upon  to  make  sacrifices,  and  forego  all  exorbi- 
tant profits  on  what  they  have  to  sell.  He  who  is  unwilling  to  do  so  is 
unworthy  of  his  country,  and  the  cause  in  which  she  is  engaged. 

The  commissioners  would  respectfully  suggest  to  the  quartermasters 
and  commissaries  in  South  Carolina  that  they  should  not  impress  provis- 
ions which  have  been  purchased  for  family  supplies  and  immediate 
consumption,  nor  should  they  interfere  with  purchases  made  at  govern- 
ment prices,  on  their  way  to  market,  in  the  hands  of  a  fair  retail  dealer, 
who  is  willing  to  sell  at  a  moderate  profit,  to  supply  the  wants  of  the 
poor  in  the  cities,  towns,  and  villages  of  the  state. 

The  foregoing  schedule  of  prices  will  continue  in  force  for  two 
months,  unless  sooner  revised.  « 

B.  F.  Perry, 
A.  M.  Martin, 

Commiasioners. 

Columbia,  S.  C,  September  15,  1863.  * 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  iNSPECioR-GENiiRAL's  Office, 

No.  129.  }  Richmond,  October  1,  1863. 

I.. The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein, 
adopted  by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of 
Virginia,  are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  concerned ;  and  the 
special  attention  of  officers  and  agents  of  the  government  is  directed 
thereto: 

Richmond,  October  1,  1863. 
Hon.  Jaa.  A.  Scddon,  Secretary  of  War  : 

Sir:  The  commissioners  appointed  under  section  fifth  of  the  bill 
recently  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress  regulating  impressments, 
being  required  to  agree  upon  and  publish  a  schedule  of  prices  every 
two  months,  or  oftcner  if  they  should  deem  it  proper,  in  accordance 
with  tho  foregoing  requisition  wo  respectfully  Lay  before  you  the  fol- 
lowing schedules  of  prices,  marked  A  and  B,  for  the  ensuing  month. 
Owing  to  the  difliculty  of  obtaining  satisfactory  information  as  to  po'rk, 
we  have  postponed  the  appraisement  till  our  next  assessment. 


15;? 


The  following  schedule  presents  the  maximum  prices  to  be  paid  for 
the  articles  appraised,  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when 
impressed  elsewhere  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere,  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to  which  the 
article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neighborhood,  or  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which  the  government  needs  the 
article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent ;  provided,  that  iu  no  case  the  amount 
deducted  for  transportation  as  above,  shall  exceed  twenty-five  cents  per 
bushel  for  grain,  and  twenty-five  cents  per  hundred  weight  for  long 
forage,  flour,  bacon,  iron,  etc.  In  addition  to  the  established  price 
of  transportation,  the  government  to  pay  all  legal  tolls;  and,  where 
farmers  can  not  procure  nails  for  baling  forage,  government  to  furnish 
the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  deducted  from  the  established  price  of 
baling: 

SCOEPULE    A. 


QDAUTT.i      DESCRIPTIOK. 


1  Wheat I  Prime.., 

2  Flour Good.... 


I'lour 

Flour 

3  Corn 

4  Unshulled  corn 

5  Corn  moal 

6  Rye 

7  Cleaned  oats.... 

8  Wheat  bran 

9  Shorts 

10  Brown  stufT. 

11  Shipstuir. 

12  nacoii , 

13  Salt  i)ork loood 

Fresh  jmrlc Fnt  and 

14  Lard iGood 

15  Horses, 

16  Wool.. 


Good.... 
Good.... 
J'linio... 
t'riine.. 
Good.... 
Prime... 
Prime... 
Good.... 
Good.... 

Good 

Good 

Good 


White  or  yellow 
White  or  yellow 


17  Wool. 


White  or  red iPer  bushi'l  of  60  lbs.. 

*''"<' Per  barrel  of  196  lbs.. 

Superfine Per  barrel  of  196  lbs... 

f,»n''>y I  Per  barrel  of  190  lbs... 

Per  bu.shel  of  56  lbs.... 

Per  bushel  of  56  lbs.... 

Per  bushel  of  50  lbs.... 

Per  bushel  of  56  11)3.... 

Per  biLshel  of  32  U.S.... 

Per  bushel  of  17  lbs 

Per  bu.sliel  of  22  lbs,... 

Per  bushel  of  28  lbs 

Per  bushel  of  a"  lbs 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 


Hog  round. 


Per  lb.  net  weight 

Per  pound 

Artillery,  etc Average  price  per  heiui 


18  Peas 

19  Beans 

20  Potatoes 

21  Potatoes 

22  Onions 

2;j  Dried  peaches.. 

24  Dried  peaches.. 

25  Diied  apples. 


Goo.l. 
Good. 
Good. 
Good. 
-.  Good. 
20  Hay,  baled Good  . 

27  Hay,  b.-iled JGood  . 

28  Hay,  unbaled Good  . 

20  Sho.if  oats,  baled..  I  Good.. 

30  Shoaf  oats,  unb'ld  Good.. 

31  Blade  fodder.  balM  I  Good.. 


1st  class 
Fair  or 

Merinol  Washed..., 
Fair  or  ( 

Aleriiio  I  Unwashed. 

Good 

Good 

Good Irish 


Sweet . 


Peeled 

Dnpeeled 

Peeled 

Timothy   or  cio- 


Por  pound. 


Per  pound 

Per  bushel  of  CO  lbs.. 
Per  busliel  of  00  llis.. 
Per  bushel  of  60  lbs.. 
Per  bushel  of  CO  lbs.. 
Per  bu.shel  of  60  lbs.. 
Per  bushel  of  38  lbs.. 
Per  bushel  of  38  lbs.. 
Per  bushel  of  28  lbs.. 


Per  100  pounds. 
Orchard  or  herd 

pi»s8 Per  100  pounds.. 

Orchard  or  herd 

grass Por  100  pounds. 

Per  100  pounds.. 

Per  100  pounds.. 

I  Per  100  pounds  . 


PRICE. 


$  5  00 

22  00 

26  50 

28  00 

4  00 

3«S 

4  20 

3  20 

2  00 

SO 

70 

90 

1  40 

1  00 

1  00 


45 

1  00 
350  00 

3  00 

2  00 

4  00 
4  00 

4  00 

5  00 
5  00 
8  90 
4  50 

3  00  ■ 

3  00 

3  00 

2  70 

4  00 

3  70 
8  00 


154 

Schedule  A — Continued. 


ARTICLES. 


DESCRIPTION. 


QU.\.NTITT. 


Blade  lbcld'v,unbd 

Shucks,  baled 

Shucks,  unbaled... 
Wheat  straw,  bl'd 
Wheat st'w,  iiiib'd  \  Good 
Pasturage jGood 


Good. 
Good. 
Good. 
Good. 


Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Pasturage 

Salt 

Soap 

Candles 

Vinegar 

Whiskey 

Sugar 

Molasses 

Rice 

Cofifee 

Tea 

Vinegar 

Pig  iron 

Pig  iron 

Pig  iron 

Bloom  iron  . 
Smiths'  iron. 


Railroad  iron .... 

Leather 

Leather 

Leather 

Beef  cattle 

Beef  cattle -. 

Beef  cattle 

Sheep 

Army  woolen  cl'h, 

%5""'d 

Army  woolen  cl'h. 


Army  woolen  cl'h, 

G-iyard 

Army  woolen  cl'th 


Superior 
1st  rate. 

Good 

Superior 
1st  rate. 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 


Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Good 

Superior 
1st  rate. 
Fair 


Good. 
Good  . 


Good . 
Good. 


Flannels.  |5^ Good. 

Cotton  shirting,  ^  Good. 
Cotton  shirting,  ^  Good. 
Cot'n  shet'ugs, 4-3  Good. 
Cot'n  osnab'gs,  ^  Good  . 
Cot'n  osii.ab'gs.  j|  Good  . 
Cotton  drills,  %...  Good  . 
Cot.  sh't'g  stripes  Good  . 
Cotton  tent  cloths  Good. 
On  the'above  enumerated  cotton  cloths,  pro 
weight. 


Interior    . . 

Interior 

Interior 

Near  cities.. 
Near  cities.. 
Near  cities. 


Tallow , 

Cider 

Trade 

Brown , 

Now  Orleans. 


Rio 

Trade 

Manufactured. 
No.  1  quality... 
No.  2  quality... 
No.  3  quality... 


Round,  plate, 

and  bar 


Harness 

Sole 

Upper 

Gross  weight. 
Gross  weight.. 
Gross  weight. 


10  oz.  per  yard... 
Pro  rata  as  to 

greater  or  less 
width  or  weight. 

20  oz.  per  yard... 
Pro  rata  as  to 

greater  or  less 
width  or  weight. 

6  oz.  per  yard 

4U  Y<ls.  tolb 

.3^1  yds.  to  lb 

3  yds.  to  lb 

6  oz.  per  yard 

8  oz.  per  yard 

3  yds.  to  ib 

3  yds.  to  lb... 

10  oz.  per  yard. 


i'er  100  ptiuuds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  head  per  month. 
Per  head  per  month 
Per  head  per  month 
Per  head  per  mouth 
Per  head  per  month 
Per  he.ad  per  month 
Per  bushel  of  50  lbs 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon  

Per  gallon , 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  gallon 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  ton...._. 

Per  ton 

Per  ton 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  pound 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds 

Per  100  pounds , 

Per  head 

Per  yard 


Per  yard . 


Cotton  warps  

Army  shoes 

Shoe  thread 

Wool  socks,  men's 
Mulea 


Good I 

Good 

Good 

Good : 

1st  rate.  I  Wagon,  etc. 


Per  yard 

Per  yard  

Per  yard  

Per  yard  

Per  yard  

Per  yard 

Per  yai-d , 

Per  yard 

Per  yard 

rata  as  to  greater  or  les 


Per  pound 

Per  pair 

Per  pound 

Per  pair 

Av'go  price  per  head. 


3  00 
42 
50 
60 
60 
70 
70 
70 
87 
width  or 


155 

In  assessing  the  average  value  of  "first-class  artillery  and  wagon 
horses  at  $;i50,"  wo  designed  that  the  term  should  be  accepted  and 
acted  upon  according  ta  its  obvious  common-sense  \inport.  In  other 
words,  that  Iiorses  should  be  selected,  and  then  impressed  accordingly 
as  their  working  qualities  and  adaptation  to  army  service,  together 
with  thoir  intrinsic  value,  would  warrant  a  judicious  purchaser  in  con- 
sidering them  as  coming  within  the  contemplation  of  the  commission- 
ers wheu  they  assessed  the  average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  govern- 
ment needed  at  $350.  But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the 
public  exigencies  would  bo  so  urgent  as  to  demand  that  a// horses  at 
hand  should  bo  impressed.  Yet,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when 
family  or  extra-blooded  horses,  or  brood  mares  of  admitted  high  value 
are  impressed,  wo  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have 
instructions  forwarded  to  the  impressing  olRcers  to  propose  and  allow 
the  owners  to  aiihstitute  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound,  and  service- 
able horses  or  mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued,  by  competent 
and  disinterested  parties,  as  first-class  artillery  horses,  or  first-rate 
wagon  mules. 

The  term  "average  value  per  head"  was  used  in  contra-distiuction  to 
a  fixed  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We  supposed  that, 
in  impressing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whether  owned  by  several 
persons  or  one  individual,  that  some  might  be  estimated  at  $2.50,  or 
even  at  less,  and  others  at  different  advanced  rates,  according  to  their 
worth,  up  as  high  as  $450,  or  above  that  amount  —  thus  making  an 
average  value  or  price  for  a  number  of  good,  sound,  and  efficient  horses 
$350  e.ach,  and  mules  $300  each. 

In  ilhistratiim  of  our  views,  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with  only  one 
eye  sound  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  a  first  rate-artil- 
lery horse,  yet  the  loss  of  one  eyo  would  justly  and  consider.ably  curtail 
his  value.  So,  a  horse  from  ten  to  eight  years  of  age  might  bo  deemed, 
in  all  other  p.articulars,  as  a  first-t;lass  artillery  horse,  but,  of  course, 
however  efficient  or  able  to  render  good  service  for  a  year  or  so,  yet  his 
advanced  ago  would  justly  and  materially  impair  his  value.  Any 
horse,  however  he  may  approximate  the  st.andard  of  a  first-class  artil- 
lery horse,  must,  according  to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum 
price;  and  as  few,  comparatively,  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and 
**  therefore  are  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so,  of  course,  in  all  other 
instances,  the  price  should  be  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfections 
place  them  below  the  standard  of  first-class,  etc. 

E.    W.    HUDARI), 

Robert  Gibuonev, 
Commisssoners for  Vinjinia. 


156 


Schedule  B — Hire  of  Luhor,  I'eama,  Wagons,  and  Drivers. 


QUANTITY  AND  TIKE.     PRICE. 


1  Baling  long  forage 

2  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur 

uished  by  government 

3  Hauling 

4  Hauli.og  grain 1 

5  Hire  of  two -horse  team,   wagon,  and  I 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner- . . 

6  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

7  Hire  of  four- horse  team,   wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . . 

8  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

9  Hire  of    six -horse   team,  wagon,  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . . 

10  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

11  Hire  of  laborer,  rations    furnished  by 

owner 

12  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

13  Hire  of    same,    rations    furnished    by 

owner 

14  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 


Per  100  pounds . . . . 

"  56  pounds  . . . . 
"  cwt.  per  mile  .  . 
"     bushel  per  mile. 

"     day 

I   "     day  

day 

day 

day 

day 

day 

day 

month 

month  ...  .. . . . 


$0  30 

65 
GO 
03 

10  00 

5  00 
13  00 

6  50 
16  00 

8  00 

2  00 

1  25 

40  00 

20  00 


By  order. 


E.    "W.    HUBARD, 

Robert  Gibboney, 
Comm iss i oners  for  Viryin  !a. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspeclor-Generul. 


GENERAL  ORDERS. 

No.  130. 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genehal's  Office, 
Richmond,  October  2,  1863. 


I.. The  evils  resulting  from  the  prolonged  absence  of  soldiers  who 
have  obtained  furloughs  on  account  of  sickness  being  greatly  on  the 
increase,  the  attention  of  officers  of  the  army  is  directed  to  the  7th  para- 
graph of  General  Orders,  No.  69,  of  1863,  from  this  office,  and  strict 
compliance  therewith  is  enjoined. 


II.  .Commanders  of  companies   who,  agreeably  to  the  requirements 
of  the  aforesaid  Orders,  No.  69,  received  from  examining  boards  notices 


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of  furlough?  granted  by  thorn,  arc  required  to  make  out  and  forward 
inonthly  to  the  Superintendents  of  the  Bureaus  of  Conscription  (Col.  .1. 
S.  Preston,  at  Riehmond,  Va.,  or  Brigadier-General  Q.  J.  Pillow,  at 
Marietta,  (in.,  as  the  case  may  require)  lists  of  all  men  so  furlougbed, 
and  who  do  not  promptly  return  to  their  companies  at  the  expiration  of 
the  time  granted  them  ;  and  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent 
receiving  such  lists  to  direct  the  proper  enrolling  officers  to  arrest  and 
return  to  their  companies,  without  delay,  all  persons  who  are  thus  re- 
ported, and  found  absent  without  proper  authority. 

III.. Payment  upon  affidavit  to  soldiers  sick  or  wounded,  in  hospi- 
tals, who  are  unprovided  with  desvriptirf  b'iit«,  will  hereafter  be  limited 
to  four  months  pay. 

By  order. 

s.  coow:r, 

Adjiiinui  find  Inypcctnr-Gcncrftl, 


ENKRAL  ORDKUS.| 
No.  131.  ) 


GENKRAL  ORDKRS.)  Adjutant  axp  Inspector-Qknkral's  Office, 

Richmond,  Ocinhw  3.  1863. 


Difficulties  in  procuring  the  medals  and  badges  of  distinction  having 
delayed  their  presentation  by  the  President,  as  authori^-ed  by  the  net  of 
Congress  approved  October  13,  1862,  to  the  officers,  non-commissioned 
officers,  and  privates  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  conspicu- 
ous for  courage  and  good  conduct  on  the  field  of  battle — 

To  avoid  postponing  the  gr.ateful  recognition  of  their  valor  until  it 
can  be  made  in  the  enduring  form  provided  by  that  act,  it  is  ordered  : 

I.. That  the  names  of  all  those  who  have  been  or  may  hereafter  bo 
reported  as  worthy  of  this  distinction,  be  inscribed  on  a 

Roll  of  Honor,  _ 

to  be  preserved  in  the  office  of  the  "Adjutant  and  Inspector-General 
for  reference,  in  all  future  time,  for  those  who  have  deserved  well  of 
their  country,  as  having  best  displayed  their  courage  and  devotion  on 
the  field  of  battle. 

II.  .That  the  Roll  of  Honor,  so  far  as  now  made  up,  be  appended  to 
this  order,  and  read  at  the  head  of  every  regiment  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States,  at  the  first  dress-parade  after  its  receipt,  and  be 
published  in  at  least  one  newspaper  in  each  slate. 


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III.. The  attention  of  the  officers  in  charge  is  directed  to  General 
Orders,  No.  93,  section  No.  27,  of  the  series  of  1862,  Adjutant  and 
Inspector-General's  office,  for  the  mode  of  selecting  the  non-commis- 
sioned officers  and  privates  entitled  to  this  distinction,  and  its  execu- 
tion is  enjoined. 

BATTLK    OF    MTTUFREESBORO'. 

Alabama- 
22d  Regiment  nt  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  W.  D.  Sumner, 
Private  Wm.  Sellers, 
Corporal  J.  L.  Husbands, 
Sergeant  B.  T.  Nelson, 
"         P.  A.  Minton, 
Corporal  N.  B*  Walker, 
Private  J.  R.  Black, 
Corporal  W.  P>;.  Larry, 
Private  J.  J.  MeVey, 
"       J.  N.  Eilands, 

21th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Captain  W.  D.  Smith  (killed  in  action), 

"       AV.  P.  Fovrler, 

"       J  no.  B.  Hazard, 

"       W.  J.  O'Brien, 
Lieutenant  J.  A.  Hall, 
"         A.  B.  Nelson, 
"         R.  T.  B.  Parham, 
"        A.  Young, 
Sergeant-Major  Wm.  Mink, 
1st  Sergeant  J.  M.  J.  Tally, 
Sergeant  John  Ives, 
Piivate  Martin  Duggan, 

"       Melbourn  Deloach, 
Sergeant  Saml.  S.  Wylie, 
Private  Joseph  Hall, 

"       Saml.  M.  Roberts,* 

"       A.  W.  Scott, 

"       James  R.  Green, 

"       N.  Lankford,* 

"       A.  Posey, 

25th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  Isaac  N.  Rhoadee, 


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2dth  Regiment  of  Infantry — Contiuuod. 

Private  Warren  A.  Jackson,  Compauy  B. 

"       Samuel  Ellison,  "  C. 

"       James  A.  Jlotc,  "  D. 

Sergeant  J.  F.  Coker,»                                  •  "  F. 

"       Patrick  H.  Smith,  "  G. 

Private  Marion  F.  llaTilewood,  "  H. 

'•       Charles  W.  Ropers,*  "  I. 

"       J.  B.  Peacock,*                                          *  "  K. 

26th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  B.  A.  Thomason,  "  A. 

Sergeant  J.  E.  Gilbert,  "  B. 

Private  L.  P.  Roberts,  "  C. 

"       Reedy  Ward,  "  D. 

Sergeant  F.  E.  Mitcboll,  "  E. 

Private  J.  T.  McClain,  "  G. 

"       J.  H.  Cotrel,  "  H. 

"       Jno.  A.  IJselton,  "  I. 
Companies  F  and  K  made  no  selection. 

28th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Topley  Murphey,  "  B. 

Sergeant  Elias  Wood.  "  G. 

«       W.  B.  Curry,  "  K. 

"       AVm.  E.  Short,  "  L. 
The  other  companies  made  no  selection. 

32d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  James  Clement?,*  "  A. 

Corporal  Vincent  H.  Joiner,  "  B. 

Private  Edmund  Davis, .  "  C. 

Corporal  Jno.  C.  Oliver,*  "  D. 

Private  Reuben  Dunias,  "  E. 

"       Nathaniel  AVheelers,*  "  F. 

Corporal  James  H.  Dore,  "  G. 

Private  Alfred  C.  Hutto,  "  H. 

Sergeant  George  W.  Vansandt,  "  I. 

Corporal  Elijah  P.  Gable,»  "  K. 

34th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  S.  J.  Numney,  "  A. 

Private  J.  R.  Browning,  "  C. 

"      C.  P.  Greer,  "  D. 

"       James  Bhehorn,  "  E. 


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34th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Private  S.  W  Reynolds, 
"       J..G.  Whaley, 
"       T.  N  Cloud, 
"       B.  R.  Covington, 
"       J.  G.  Metts, 


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39th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Adjutant  Jt  M.  Macon. 
2d  Lieut.  E.  Q.  Thornton, 

"  E.  0.  Petty, 
Sergeant  C.  K.  Hall, 
Sergeant  W.  J.  White, 

"       E.  Priest, 
Private  W.  C.  Menifee, 
Sergeant  A.  J.  Talbot, 
Private  Samuel  M.  Martin, 

"       John  Dausby, 

"       Evauder  Burkett, 

"       Frank  Jones, 

"       Wm.  M.  Meadows, 
Sergeants  Jno.  H.  Poyner  and  T.  F.  Espy, 
Company  G  was  unable  to  decide  between  these  two 

sergeants. 
Sergeant  Abner  Flowers, 

"       James  S.  Wilson, 
Company  H  made  no  selection. 

17th  Battalion — Sharp-shooters  : 

Private  Jno.  A.  Rutherford,* 
"       Walter  S.  White, 

Waters'  Battery  : 

Private  John  Hutcherson, 
Ketchum's  Battery  : 

Captain  James  Garrity. 

1st  Lieutenant  Philip  Bond. 
"         M.  A.  HassoU. 

Arkansat. 
1st  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant-Colonel  D.  McGregor.* 
Adjutant  S.  M.  Greenwood. 
.  Captain  0.  F.  Parrish, 
Lieutenant  J.  E.  Letson, 


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1st  Regiment  of  Iifflfntry — Continued. 
Captain  W.  H.  Scales, 
Corporal  G.  M.  McKenzio,* 
Private  J.  S.  T.  Hemphill, 

"       G.  W.  Sallce,* 

"       Q.  Bagy, 

"       AV.  W.  Chancy, 

"       H.  J.  Bullion, 

"       A.  P.  Green,* 
Private  J.  Boeson, 

"       J.  n.  Curd,* 

"      0.  C.  Choat,* 

2d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  James  W.  Pyles, 
Private  Tilman  Peavy,* 

"       J.  H.  Eagle,* 

"       E.  A.  Ballew, 

"       W.  A.  Thompson,* 

"       Wm.  Till,« 
Sergeant  J.  E.  Shepherd, 
Private  M.  M.  McGce, 
Sergeant  H.  M.  Gravis, 

"       F.  E.  Gett, 

4t.h  Regiment  of  Infantry : 
Sergeant  S.  A.  Smith, 
Private  James  M.  Pate,* 
"       Dan'l  Hudson, 
"       Thos.  Caldwell, 
Sergeant  J.  F.  Garrett,* 
Private  J.  M.  Vinson,* 
Sergeant  S.  T.  Ward,* 
Private  Simpson  Jackson, 
"       T.  P.  Williams, 

1st  Regiment  of  Mounted  Rifles : 
Private  Pat.  Collawan, 

"       W.  T.  Blakemore, 

"      Jas.  Pearsons, 
Corporal  C.  D.  Jenkins, 
Private  T.  J.  Underwood, 

"       W.  W.  Coe, 
1st  Sergeant  W.  S.  Colbern, 
Corporal  Thomas  Thompson, 


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Corporal  J.  L.  Casteen, 

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Private  Q.  B.  House,* 

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25th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  J.  Alphin, 

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Corporal  J.  R.  Fergurson, 

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4th  Battalion  of  Infantry : 

Private  James  Vines,* 

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Corporal  L.  Higgle,* 

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Humphries  Artillery  Company : 

Private  John  Campbell. 

Gcortfia. 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  Newton  Rice,* 

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Corporal  M.  J.  McNamara,* 

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Sergeant  Samuel  P.  Kiddoo,* 

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Private  George  A.  Horseley,* 

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Companies  D  and  Q  declined  to  select. 

3d  Battalion  of  Infantry  : 

Private  A.  S.  Kinney.* 

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"       Mathew  Hall, 

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"       G.  W.  Sanders, 

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9th  Battalion  of  Infantry: 

Private  Obie  McCreery, 

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"       W.  J.  Wood, 

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9th  Battalion  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Corporal  Wm.  M.  Gaines, 
Private  C.  M.  R.  Palmer, 

Kenlncki/, 
2d  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Color-Corporal  W.  H.  Robinson, 
Private  R.  If.  Graves, 

"       Thomas  Clark, 
Sergeant  C.  A.  Has-kill, 

"       F.  M.  Chambers. 

"       W.  0.  Coppidge, 

"       D.  E.  Turncy, 
Corporal  E.  H.  AV right, 
Sergeant  John  H.  Crane, 

"       Jas.  A.  Pearce, 
4th   Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Corporal  d.  W.  Rogers, 
Sergeant  E.  L.  Johnson, 
Private  John  McGuire, 
Color-Corporal  R.  H.  Lindsey, 
Sergeant  J.  S.  Whittington, 
Private  Joseph  Nickols, 

"       H.  D.  AVallace, 
Sergeant  A.  M.  Hathaway, 
Companies  H  and  I  deelined  selecting, 
fith   Regiment  of  Infantry : 

1st  Sergeant  J.  B.  Lewis, 
Corporal  E.  S.  Jones, 
Private  Thomas  Payne, 

"  James  T.  Prather, 
2d  Sergeant  Wm.  Ilarncd, 
Private  J.  0.  Cushenbnrg, 
Companies  A  and  B  declined  selecting. 

i)th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Captain  Jos.  Desha, 

"       James  T.  Jlorohead, 
Private  J.  G.  Wakefield, 
"       Jacob  Blackshuar, 
''       J.  L.  Collins, 
"       Nathan  Board, 
Sergeant  Wm.  K.  Kennian, 
Drakeford  Grav, 


Company  D. 
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0th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Private  H.  B.  Roberts, 
Company  D  declined  to  select. 

Louisiana, 
13th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Color-Sergeant  Roger  Tanure, 
Sergeant-Major  Jno.  Farrel. 
Private  Dan.  Dunn, 

"       George  K.  Higgins, 

"       LcAvis  Brown, 
Corporal  F.  Druvot, 
Private  E.  M.  Harris, 

"       Michael  McCailliff, 

"      James  Kinsley, 

"       M.  Brennigan, 
Sergeant  Pat.  Johnston, 
Private  Francis  Mackin, 
20th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Frank  Monahan, 
Corporal  Charles  Sneider, 

"       Jno.  Bellejean, 
Pi'ivate  AValter  Haynes, 
1st  Sergeant  P.  Mooney, 
Private  G.  Heisser, 

"       Michael  Sullivan, 

"       Michael  Carey, 

"       Jno.  Gorman, 
1st  Sergeant  G.  G.  Smith, 
Austin's  Battalion  of  Sharp-shooters  : 
Private  J.  W.  Stovall,* 

"       Andrew  Develbiss, 
5th  Company  Washington  Artillery  : 
Private  John  W.  Anthony. 

Mississiiipi, 
6tb  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Sergeant  Wm.  Dobbs, 
Private  Jesse  Glass, 
Corporal  J.  J.  Smith, 
Private  6.  T.  Jayroe, 
Sergeant  J.  H.  Richardson, 

"       W.  A.  Snow, 
Private  S.  F.  Fondren, 


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6th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Sergeant  D.  S.  McCollum, 
Private  W.  R.  Flannigan, 
"         H.  H.  McMichacl, 

7th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  John  Higginbotham,* 

"         H.  n.  Price, 

"         Richard  Chaddick, 

"         Jeptha  Creel, 
Sergeant  George  Stewart, 
Private  B.  Drummond, 

"         M.  B.  Stringer, 

"        A.  Z.  Coljer, 

"  P.  W.  Rogers, 
Sergeant  A.  E.  Ford, 

8lh  Regiinent  of  Infantry  : 

Private  W.  T.  Robinson, 

"         J.  H.  Bond, 

"  W.  J.  Pitman, 
Corporal  G.  B.  Risher, 
Private  S.  T.  Massey, 

"         D.  F.  Ililburn, 
CorpQral  A.  W.  Atwood, 
Private  J.  C.  Luc}', 

"         Joel  Foster, 

"        W.  W.  Watson, 
Oth  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  T.  E.  Bowden,* 

"         Thos.  Gill, 
Color-Sergeant  L.  E.  McCrosky, 
Sergeant  George  F.  Duffy, 
Private  John  McAfee,* 
Corporal  E.  W.  Dowty, 
Private  W.  T.  Hollis, 

"         B.  C.  Lipscomb,* 
Sergeant  D.  R.  Biles, 
Private  W.  II.  Wheeler, 
41st  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  John  A.  Moore, 
Private  A.  W.  Bell, 

"        A.  F.  Anderson, 

"         A.  Sanders, 


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41st  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continaed. 
Private  Samuel  N.  Richey, 

"         G.  D.  Nelson, 

"         P.  Lerlbetter, 

"  F.  Constantino, 
Corporal  W.  M.  Baker, 
Companies  B  and  C  declined  making  selections. 

9th  Battalion  -of  Sharp-shooters  : 

Fourth  Sergeant  M.  Murphy,  "         A. 

*  First  Sergeant  Joseph  O'Brien,  "  A. 

Sergeant  Murphy  was  selected  by  Major  Richards, 
,  commanding  battalion. 

Companies  B  and  C  declined  making  selections. 

Stanford's  Light  Battery : 

Private  Richard  H.  Elliott. 

North  Carolina. 
29th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  Abner  B.  Freeman,  "  A. 

Private  Thomas  Elkin,  "  B. 

Color-Bearer  James  R.  Lanning,  "  C. 

First  Sergeant  Erwin  F.  Roberts,  "  D. 

Corporal  Willburn  S.  Smith,  "  E. 

Private  Dcvania  Millsaps,*  "  F. 

"         Abraham  Hedrick,  "  G. 

"         James  A.  Gillespie,  "  H. 

"         Thomas  Willis,  "  I. 

"         Robert  King,  "  K. 

39th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Colonel  David  Coleman. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Hugh  H.  Davidson. 

Acting  Adjutant  Isaac  S.  Hyams. 

First  Lieutenant  Abram  Booker,  "  A. 

"  "  Wm.  T.  Anderson,  "  B. 

Sergeant  John  C.  Rogers,  "  A. 

Private  Wm.  T.  West,  "  B. 

"         Jas.  W.  Cobb,  "  C. 

"         Jas.  B.  A.  Staten,  "  D. 

"         Moses  Fulbright,  "  E. 

Sergeant  George  W.  Wiggins,  "  F. 

"         John  E.  Moore,  "  I. 

Companies  G  and  II  made  no  selection — Company  K 
not  in  action. 


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Sonth  Carolina. 
10th  Regiment  of  Inftmtry  : 

First  Lieutenant  C.  C.  White,  Company  A. 

Private  A.  J.  McCants,  "         A. 

"         J.  S.  Beatj,  "          B, 

"         W.  D.  Hewitt,  "          C. 

"         Q.  8.  Flowers,  "          j). 

Sergeant  C.  AV.  Cockficld,*  "          e- 

Private  6.  W.  Curry,  «<          p, 

"         J.  Cannon,  <<          q. 

"         N.  Gray,  «          jj. 

"         W.  H.  Poston,  "           I. 

"        J.  W.  H.  Bunch,*  "         K. 

"         J.  A.  Boatwright,  "          E. 

Sergeant  S.  B.  Rhuark,  «<        m. 

19th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Colonel  A.  J.  Lythgoc. 
Major  Jolin  A.  Crowder. 

Private  Benjamin  W.  Boothe,  "         A. 

"         Samuel  S.  Home,  "         b. 

Sergeant  W.  H.  Burkhalter,  "          G. 

Private  W.  A.  Black,  «          D. 

"         S.  D.  McCoy,  «          B_ 

"         Samuel  Bloodsworth,  "          F. 

Sergeant  Seth  A.  Jones,  «         0. 

Private  James  McClain,  «         h, 

"        James  Jones,  «           j_ 

Sergeant  Martin  Yance,  "         K, 

Teiinensee. 
2d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Color-Sergeant  John  C.  Ferris. 

4th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Sergeant  J.  B.  Wendall,  "          B. 

Corporal  M.  R.  Brown,  <<          q^ 

Private  R.  L.  Matthews,  "          E. 

"        G.  M.  Whitson,  "         g. 

•     Sergeant  J.  F.  Seay,  «          H^ 

Private  R.  W.  Mullins,  "          I. 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  J.  P.  Ilardcastle,  "          a. 

Second  Lieutenant  Z.  B.  Ilamrick,  ••          B. 


6th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Color-Sergeant  W.  Davis, 
First  Lieutenant  W.  C.  Grissom, 
Captain  R.  B.  Roberts,  • 

Second  Lieutenant  W.  B.  Masoj', 
First  Lieutenant  J.  B.  Blair, 
Sergeant  J.  Swan, 
Second  Lieutenant  S.  R.  Richards, 

"  "  \V.  H.  Ballard, 

Corporal  W.  F.  Diggs, 
Second  Sergeant  J.  A.  Aguilar, 
Sergeant  L.  D.  Holland, 
Private  W.  T.  Ballard, 
Corporal  W.  A.  Thompson, 
Private  J.  J.  Hagler, 

"         D.  C.  Baucuni, 

"         W.  C.  Malin,* 
G.  W.  Costen,* 
Corporal  J.  B.  Johnson, 

8th  Regiment  of  Infanti-y  : 

Private  D.  T.  Purkins,* 
"         R.  E.  Colston,* 
Sergeant  J.  M.  Jones, 

"         W.  J.  Armstrong,* 
"        Willie  Simmons,* 
First  Sergeant  E.  B.  Little,* 
Private  R.  H.  Gaines,* 

"         T.  G.  Hall, 
Sergeant  J.  T.  Luna, 
Sergeant-Major  W.  H.  Ilohnon, 

17th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Colonel  A.  S.  Mai-ks. 
Lieutenant-Colonel  W.  W.  Floyd. 
Adjutant  James  Fitzpatriok. 

Captain  F.  B.  Terry,  "  A. 

1st  Lieutenant  G.  W.  Corn,  "  D. 

"                 H.  M.  Kimsoy,  "  .  B. 

2d  Lieutenant  M.  W.  Black,  "  E. 

Corporal  Jno.  N.  Lowery,*  "  A. 

Sergeant  P.  L.  ShafFner,  "  B. 

"         W.  T.  Jones,  "  C 

"         Robt.  Rollins,  "  D. 


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17th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 

Private  J.  D.  Martin, 

Company  E. 

"      Jno.  L.  Conley, 

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"      J.  H.  Gobcr, 

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"      M.  ^.  Liggett,* 

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"      T.  C.  Mitchell, 

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Company  I  declined  making  a  selection. 

19th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

1st  Sergeant  Joseph  Thompson, 

ft 

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"            Amos  C.  Smith, 

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Sergeant  Geo.  N.  Richardson, 

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The  other  companies  declined  making  selecti«ps. 

23d  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Lieutenant-Colonel  R.  H.  Keeblo. 

Captain  W.  II.  Hunter, 

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"      N.  R.  Allen, 

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Private  W.  Q.  Haynio, 

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"       W.  J.  Pennington, 

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1st  Sergeant  J.  N.  Holt, 

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Private  H.  C.  Ilaynes,* 

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"       S.  M.  Foster, 

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"      Jasper  M.  Harris,* 

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-1st  Sergeant  Wm.  K.  Kelly, 

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Corporal  G.  W.  Jernyan, 

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2-lth  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  R.  H.  Jones, 

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"       Willis  A.  Jones, 

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"      J.  M.  D.  Sullivan, 

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Sergeant  W.  H.  H.  Loftin, 

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Private  Wm.  Jordon, 

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Color-Bearer  Cuthbert  Ferrill, 

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F. 

Sergeant  G.  W.  Anderson, 

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Private  Allen  W.  Williams, 

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"      R.  A.  Dean, 

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"      Andrew  J.  Pow«rs, 

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25th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

This  regiment  declined  making  any  selections. 

26th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  James  Deatherage,* 

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"      Jno.  H.  Edmunds, 

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"      Wm.  T.  Williams,* 

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"      Wesley  Collins, 

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26th  Regiment  of  Infantry— Continued. 
Private  William  Rice, 
"       William  Wright, 
"      A.  M.  Brunson, 
"       Washington  Fuller, 
"       John  Alfred, 

28th  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Captain  Franklin  Fowler, 

1st  Lieutenant  James  M.  Lowe, 

Private  Elijah  W.  Greer, 

"       Thomas  W.  Patton, 

"      Lafatte  Chilton, 

"       James  A.  Rash, 
Color-Bearer  Houston  B.  Graves, 
Corporal  John  P.  Moore, 
Private  Pinkney  Craighead, 
Sergeant  Claiborne  D.  Griffith, 
1st  Sergeant  J.  R.  Pirtle, 

33d  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Corporal  J.  W.  Hosier, 
Private  T.  E.  Mercer, 
Sergeant  J.  C.  Stublefield, 
Private  W.  J.  McDaniel, 

"      1.  M.  Arnold, 
Sergeant  George  Parhorn,* 
Private  W.  R.  Gauntlett, 

"  J.  L.  Mizell,* 
Sergeant  J.  E.  Hays,* 
Private  J.  D.  Hill, 

37th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Major  J.  T.  McReynolds. 

44th  Regiment  of  "Infantry : 
Colonel  John  S.  Fulton. 
Lieutenant-Colonel  J.  L.  McEwin. 
Major  H.  C.  Ewin. 

Captain  Samuel  Jackson,  "        I. 

Private  James  D.  Stone,  "        B. 

"       J.  G.  Hefflin  *  "         C. 

Corporal  John  W.  Gill,*  "         p. 

"      J.  D.  Crenshaw,  "        H. 

"      Isaac  Berry,  "         I. 

Private  J.  M.  Sellers,  "        K. 


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45th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  A.  W.  Loftin, 
"       J.  H.  Henderson, 
"       J.  E.  Watldns  * 

Corporal  P.  C.  F.  Miller, 

Private  James  Flowers,* 

1st  Sergeant  L.  P.  Cawthorn,* 

Private  A.  T.  Lanvin,*  "  , 

Corporal  B.  A.  Baird, 

Sergeant  Hugh  Hope, 

Private  John  W.  Williams, 
Darden's  Battery. — This  company  declined  to  select. 
Steven  Artillery  : 

Private  Jn.mes  L.  Gihbs.* 

Jefferson  Artillery : 

Captain  P.  Darden. 

Major  R.  B.  Snowden,  Assistant  Adj\itant-General. 
Captain  Douglas'  Battery : 


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Corporal  W.  L.  "Waits. 


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9th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant-Colonel  M.  A.  Dillard. 

Private  F.  M.  ScUman, 

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"      John  Bradshaw, 

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"       T.  J.  Cox, 

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Private  J.  M.  Byrd, 

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"       M.  H.  Dixon, 

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Companies  B  and  I  declined  making  selections. 

10th  Regiment  of  Cavalry  (dismounted) : 

Private  Alexander  Cook, 

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"      F.  M.  Rodgers, 

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Sergeant  J.  T.  McGee, 

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"      A.  Sims, 

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Private  James  Terry, 

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"       W.  W.  Conley, 

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"       Stokely  Hutchins, 

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14tb  Regiment  of  Cavalry; 
Private  W.  R.  Strapp, 

"      Jordon  Whelcher, 

"       Thomas  A.  Lattemer, 

"       Wm.  D.  Melton,* 
Corporal  Jolin  Wyche, 
Private  Wm.  Spencer, 

"      Geo.  W.  Woodall, 

"       William  Hull, 

"      Richard  Styles, 

"      J.  V.  Keil, 

32d  Regiment  of  Cavalry  (formerly  15th) : 
Corporal  James  Rogers,* 
Private  James  W.  Clark,* 
1st  Sergeant  S.  L.  Easly, 
Private  E.  Watson, 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 

9th  Confederate  Regiment: 

Colonel.  J.  A.  Smith  commanding. 
Captain  Jos.  H.  Brow, 
1st  Sergeant  Wm.  Powers, 

"  Wm.  Price, 

Private  Hugh  McHugh, 
First  Sergeant  Walter  Laracy, 
Private  John  Hog&n, 

"         Curran  Kenny, 

"         Luther  Hessey, 
Sergeant  A.  P.  Burns, 

BATTLE    or   CHANCELLORSVILLK. 

Alabama. 

3d  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Sergeant  Walter  Ransom, 

"         George  Ellison, 
Corporal  H.  H.  Hardy, 
Private  C.  D.  Rouse, 
Corporal  W.  H.  Powers, 
Companies  A,  B,  D,  F,  and  L  declined  voting. 

6th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Captain  W.  T.  Renfro, 
Private  W.  P.  Stokes, 
"        John  Summers, 


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5th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Private  F.  M.  Burnett, 
Sergeant  Jno.  H.  Cowan, 
Private  Lewis  H.  Thornton, 

"        N.  S.  Franklin, 
Corporal  Jno.  0.  Donohoe, 
R.  L.  Franklin, 
"         H.  J.  Robertson, 
Corporal  H.  F.  Martin, 
6th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  Mathew  Benton/ 
Sergeant  J.  C.  Gamble, 
Private  W.  H.  Digby, 
"        H.  II.  Moore, 
Sergeant  E.  0.  Baker, 
Corporal  G.  P.  Jones, 
Private  II.  L.  Jones, 
Sergeant  D.  Madigan, 
Private  James  W.  Evans, 

H.  I.  Price, 
Sergeant  11.  W.  Hale, 
Private  D.  W.  Moorer, 
12th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Captain  11.  W.  Cox,« 
Private  Louis  Donduer, 

R.  W.  May, 
Sergeant  Wm.  Lawess, 
Private  J.  E.  Bailey, 
"         C.  H.  Hunter, 
"         P.  W.  Chappcll, 
"        R.  B.  Mitchell, 
"         W.  S.  Brown, 
"        H.  N.  Wootan, 
"         Thomas  Eady, 
26th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

First  Lieutenant  E,  S.  Stuekey, 
Private  L.  Walters, 

"        Jos.  H.  Bounds, 
Sergeant  J.  H.  Lockwell, 
Private  J.  C.  Pennington, 
"        Jos.  Munsel, 
"        James  H.  Dowdle, 
Corporal  Jesse  Parsons, 


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26tli  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Private  D.  H.  Spraddle, 
Sergeant  D.  Butler, 
Private  B.  F.  Smith, 

Georgia. 
4th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Private  W.  Sparks,* 
Sergeant  Hill  M.  Traylor,* 
Color-Corporal  John  T.  Moore,* 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 
14th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant-Colonel  J.  M.  Fielder. 
Captain  T.  T.  Mounger.* 
"       R.  P.  Harman.* 
First  Lieutenant  H.  A.  Solomon.* 
Private  Daniel  Kennington,* 
Corporal  William  Tomlinson, 

"        Joseph  G.  Dupree, 
Second  Sergeant  Thomas  D.  Smith, 
Private  James  F.  D.  Thaxton,* 

"        James  M.  Brock, 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 
12th  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

First  Lieutenant  Thomas  W.  Harris, 
Second  Lieutenant  J.  A.  Walker, 

"  "  W.  F.  Lowe, 

Private  J.  L.  Batts, 
"        Abel  James, 
"         S.  M.  Beavers, 
"         W.  AV.  Forrister, 
"         R.  J.  Orr, 
First  Sergeant  N.  M.  Howard, 
Private  James  N.  Bullard, 

"        Archibald  McDonald, 
First  Sergeant  B.  L.  Stevens, 
Private  W.  H.  Burgamy, 
35th  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Corporal  Jackson  Baggctt, 
Private  A.  S.  W.  Bass, 
Second  Sergeant  J.  A.  Cochran, 
Private  Rolley  Willingham, 
D.  P.  White, 


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35th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 
Private  R.  D.  B.  Holt, 
"         W.  E.  Moore, 
"         Absalom  Martin, 
"         Lewis  Milligan, 
"        D.  M.  Pearcc, 

44th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  James  Fambrougb,* 
"        James  A.  McNatt,* 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 

45th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Captain  Wm.  H.  Shaw.* 

Private  John  D.  Pate,*  "  A. 

"        John  H.  King,  "  C. 

"        James  M.  Lawrence,  "  E. 

"         James  P.  Green,  "  F. 

"         John  S.  Bonner,  "  <*• 

"         H.  W.  Dent,  "  H. 

"        W.  W.  Wilson,  "  I- 

"        M.  H.  Fitzpatrick,  "  K. 
Company  B  declined  making  a  selection. 
40th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  H.  A.  Hall,  "  A. 

Private  Lewis  White,  "  B. 

Sergeant  M.  Watkins,  "  C. 

"        W.  T.  Moore,*  "  D- 

Corporal  James  HoUingsworth,*  "  E. 

"        L.  D.  Taylor,  "  F. 

"        J.  N.  Jordon,  "  O- 

Private  Joseph  Bell,  "  H. 

"        F.  B.  Pool,  "  I- 

"         James  Taj'lor,*  "  K. 

21st  Regiment  of  Infantry — Declined  making  selections. 

North  Carolina. 
2d  Regiment : 

Sergeant  John  E.  Banner,  "  A, 

Private  W.  H.  Flowers,  "  B. 

Sergeant  T.  E.  Ellis,  "  C, 

Corporal  S.  Felton,  "  ^ 

Sergeant  J.  T.  Booth,  "  E 

Corporal  J.  E.  May,  "  F 

Private  Thomas  Williford,  "  G 


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2d  Regiment— Continued. 

Private  Simeon  Graddy, 

"         Aaron  A.  Pitt, 
Corporal  Charles  Catler, 
4th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Sergeant  W.  S.  ShufFord,* 
Private  Jacob  W.  Wilhelm,® 
Sergeant  Jos.  W.  Leggett,* 
Private  G.  W.  Shivis,* 

"        William  H.  Barrow,* 

"         W.  R.  Josey,« 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Williarn  Henry  Medlin, 

"         Richard  H.  Briggs, 

"         Newitt  D.  Bridges, 

"         J.  M.  Guilford, 
Corporal  Monroe  Cruise, 

"         Patrick  H.  Rohbins, 
Private  Thomas  Felton, 
Color-Corporal  Francis  Bradshaw, 

7th  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Second  Lieutenant  A.  M.  Walker, 
Corporal  Wm.  H.  Milstead, 
Sergeant  Wm.  G.  Sawyers, 
Corporal  Phillips  Strickland, 
Sergeant  Thomas  Brinkle, 
Private  E.  H.  Eure, 

"         Edward  Williams, 
Corporal  J.  W.  Smith, 
Sergeant  R.  M.  Caldwell, 
Private  T.  L.  Purdie, 
Sergeant  J.  S.  McCurdy, 

12th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Private  D.  B.  Hoover, 
Corporal  Samuel  Alston  Ward, 
Private  T.  A.  Stone, 
Sergeant  L.  M.  Wills,* 
Private  Jerry  Draper, 

"         J.  E.  Hux. 
A.  L.  Barnes, 
John  W.  Arrington, 
John  R.  Johnson,* 


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14th  RegiracDt  of  Infantry  : 

Private  Henry  B.  Sanders, 
Sergeant  J.  F.  Goforth, 
"         Urias  Pool,* 

J.  M.  Whitmire, 
"        J.  R.  Smith,* 
Corporal  C.  M.  Smith, 
Sergeant  L.  N.  Keith, 
Companies  A,  B,  and  11  declined  making  selections. 

lOth  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

First  Lieutenant  C.  L.  Robinson,* 

"  "  A.  M.  Roberts,* 

Private  F.  Riley, 
Corporal  W.  11.  Wiggins, 
Private  K.  C.  Blnnton, 

"  Lawrence  Cook, 
Corporal  A.  M.  Madows, 
Private  J.  W,  Williford,* 

"        B.  P.  Jacobs, 
First  Sergeant  T.  L.  Williams,* 
Corporal  J.  J.  Blackwell,* 
Color-Sergeant  John  A.  Carpenter, 

20th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  C.  A.  Patterson, 
Private  D.  R.  A.  Ellis, 
Corporal  Richard  Faulk, 
Private  Josiah  Hudson, 

"         Newberne  Tew, 

"         Thomas  N.  Morris, 

23d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  J.  D.  Birmingham,"^-' 

"  Private  A.  Hedick, 
Sergeant  Brantley  Harris,* 
Private  N.  C.  Morrison,* 

"         Samuel  Clarke, 

"         W.  A.  Towell,* 

"         T.  M.  Thamason, 

"        J.  C.  Ford,* 

"        Robert  Hesler, 

"         J.  F.  Killian,* 
30th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  John  R.  Holland,''- 


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30th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 

Private  Wm.  J.  McDowell,  Company  C. 

Sergeant  J.  W.  J.  House,  "  F. 

Private  William  McCauley,  "  H. 

"        E.  M.  Bales,  "  K. 
Companies  B,  D,  E,  G,  and  I  made  no  decision. 

34tli  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  Mathias  Brown,  "  A. 

"         Wallace  Winn,  "  B. 

Sergeant  George  W.  Koone,  "  C. 

Private  Obadiah  EUer,  "  D. 

First  Sergeant  David  M.  Taylor,  "  E. 

Sergeant  Thomas  S.  Shufiford,*  "  F. 

First  Sergeant  Charles  B.  Todd,  "  G. 

Private  Samuel  Dellingner,  "  H. 

Sergeant  Elisha  Robbins,  "  I. 

Private  Joseph  Hogan,  "  K. 

37th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  W.  J.  Goss,  "  A. 

Sergeant  J.  E.  Fairchild,                               .  "  B. 

"        B.  F.  Brown,  "  C. 

Private  John  L.  Austin,  "  D. 

J.  E.  Coffee,                                          *  "  E. 

William  Kelly,  "  F. 

Corporal  J.  A.  Rolinett,  "  ,G. 

Sergeant  G.  W.  McKee,  "  H. 

"        John  Tally,  "  I. 

Private  M.  D.  L.  Parsons,  "  K. 

38th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Adjutant  D.  M.  Mclntire. 

Lieutenant  A.  J.  Brown. 

Private  Jesse  Nethercut,  "  A. 

"         Thomas  Dinkins,  "  B. 

"         Benjamin  Sutton,  "  C. 

First  Sergeant  David  A.  Thomson,  "  D. 

Private  W.  J  Hutchinson,*  "  E. 

"         W.  M.  S.  Huffman,  "  F. 

Corporal  W.  T.  Matheson,  "  G. 

"         D.  P.  Woodburn,  "  H. 

Private  T.  J.  Ramsey,  "  I. 

"         W.  H.  McPhaul,  "  K. 


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South   Carolina. 

let  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  W.  H.  Cooper, 

"        J.  P.  Hunter,* 

"         A.  P.  Abbott. 

"         Jesse  R.  Hays,* 

"         Benjamin  Barnhill,* 

"         G.  W.  Smith,« 

"        Albert  P.  Yournans, 

"         R.  W.  Perry, 

"        James  McNab,* 

"        A.  J.  Simpson, 
13th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  J.  A.  McCoUum,* 
Private  James  Johnson,* 
John  M.  Pikard, 
T.  C.  Corley, 
14th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  J.  M.  Carter,* 
Private  Caleb  Hare,* 

"        Olivant  P.  Walker,* 

"         C.  Hughes, 
Sergeant  Z.  L.  Nabors,* 
Private  James  White,* 
Sergeant  R.  J.  Wade, 

"        John  E.  Brownlcc, 
Private  M.  C.  Little,* 

Orr's  Rifles: 

Sergeant  L.  A.  Wardlaw, 
Private  Samuel  P.  Moore, 
"         J.  Marian  Mattison, 

Virghita. 
4th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Captain  M.  Harmon,*  "          ® 

Lieutenant  M.  G.  W.  Peterman,*  "         E. 

Captain  John  H.  Fulton,  "          A. 

Lieutenant  James  F.  Cecil,  ^' 

"         P.  Hogan,  "         H. 

"         W.  B.  Carder,  "          D, 
Adjutant  William  Wade. 

Sergeant  Harold  J.  Matthews,  "          A 

"         Charles  W.  Garlick,  "         B 


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Private  William  A.  Chumbley, 

"        Edward  Harrison, 
Sergeant  Charles  L.  Gordon, 
Corporal  George  V.  Byrd, 
"        Peter  H.  Marrow, 
Private  Pvibben  D.  Henderson,* 
"         Nathan  A.  Lackey,* 
"         George  W.  Pace, 
27th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Sergeant  J.  H.  Holley, 
Private  J.  0.  Cook, 

W.  H,  Parker,* 
"         E.  H,  Norgrove,* 
"         Hugh  King, 
Corporal  John  Baker, 
"         Isaac  Beeson, 
40th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  George  W.  Dudley,* 
"         Robert  H.  Wilson, 
"         Peter  M.  Hall, 
"         Henry  Bartlctt, 
"         Hiram  Purcell, 
First  Sergeant  Thomas  Cockrell,* 
Private  Joseph  McCave, 
Corporal  John  T.  Pord,* 

"         George  Cornwell, 
First  Sergeant  John  B.  Garland,* 
55th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  C,  R.  Shcppard,* 
Sergeant  William  Smith, 
Corporal  Ro.  Hall, 
Sergeant  Thomas  B.  Fogg,* 
Private  Thomas  Dodson, 
"         Jno.  Haydon,* 
"         George  T.  Newton,* 

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9th  Georgia  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant- Colonel  John  C.  Mounger. 

Private  P.  B.  Milliean,*  "  B, 

"         Thomas  J.  Michael,  «  c. 

"        James  W.  Mann,*  '<         D. 


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Oth'Geoigia  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 

Corporal  Joseph  A.  Ilough, 

Private  Jesse  McCuUar,* 

"         John  Mills, 

"         Chelscy  Aldeman, 

Corporal  Luther  J.  Copoland,* 

Private  Henry  T.  Daniel, 

Private  Henry  T.  Daniel  was  afterward  killed  at  Funkstown,  Md., 

July  10,  1863. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inupcctor- General. 
_^^~The  asterisks  designate  those  killed  in  action. 


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GKNERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oe.nebal's  Office, 

No.  102.  )  Richmond,  October  5, 1863. 

I.  .Cadets  having  been  required,  by  General  Orders,  No.  65,  Septem- 
ber 9,  1862,  to  report  to  this  oflice,  those  who  have  not  complied  ivith 
the  terms  of  that  order,  and  who  fail  to  do  so,  either  personally  or  by 
letter,  for  the  ensuing  thirty  days,  will  be  dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the 
army. 

II.."0fl5cers  of  the  Quartermaster-General's  and  Commissary  de- 
partments, who  are  in  charge  of  depots,  will  receive  from  officers  col- 
lecting the  tax  in  kind,  and  receipt  for  all  produce  belonging  to  their 
respective  departments  which  may  bo  invoiced  to  them,  and  provide 
storehouses  for  the  same." 

By.ordcr.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Gkneral's  Office, 

No.  133.  )  Richmond,  October  5,  1SC3. 

I.. The  Chief  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau  is  directed,  through 
the  officers  of  his  bureau,  to  impress  copper,  coal,  and  such  other 
minerals  as  m.ay  be  needed  for  the  use  of  the  government. 

IT.. The  provisions  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67.  current 
series,  is  extended  to  officers  of  the  Conscription  bureau.  The  payments 
authorized  will  be  made  out  of  the  funds  appropriated  for  the  support 
of  that  bureau. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Tnipector-General. 


IS2 

GENERAL  0RDEES,1  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Offiob, 

Ko.  134.  )  Richmond,  October  13, 1863. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  by  virtue  of  General  Orders, 
No.  133,  dated  Head-quarters  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  December  7, 
1862,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Second  Lieutenant  J.  M.  Youngblood,  Company  B,  2d  Mississippi 
battalion,  on  the  following  charge  and  specification  : 

Charge :  Violation  of  the  45tb  Article  of  War. 

Specification  :  In  this,  that  the  said  Second  Lieutenant  J.  M.  Young- 
blood,  Company  B,  2d  Mississippi  battalion,  was  drunk  and  disorderly 
on  "  dress-parade  "  and  in  camp,  on  or  about  the  evening  of  November 
.3,  1862.  All  this  occurring  near  Culpeper  court -house,  in  Culpepor 
county,  in  the  State  of  Virginia. 

II.  .Finding  arid  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  court,  after  due  consideration,  find  the  accused.  Second  Lieuten- 
ant J.  M.  Youngblood,  2d  Mississippi  battalion,  as  follows : 

Of  the  Specification  :  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge  :  Guilty. 

And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President,  are  by  him  ap- 
proved ;  but,  in  consideration  of  the  previous  sobriety  and  good  conduct 
of  Lieutenant  Youngblood,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  he  will  be  re- 
stored to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adjutant  and  Inspectoii-Gineral's  Office, 

No.  135.  J  Richmond,  October  15, 1863. 

'  I.  .Recruiting  officers  and  others  are  forbidden  to  grant  permits  to 
conscripts  or  deserters,  allowing  them  to  visit  their  homes,  or  to  remain 
there  for  any  purpose.  The  notice  already  given  conscripts  is  deemed 
sufficient,  and  deserters  are  not  entitled  to  indulgence. 

II.. All  parties  who  have  received  exemption  papers  for  disability 
other  than  those  granted  for  permanent  and  decided  disability,  must  be 


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re-examined,  and  the  law,  Avhich  there  is  reason  to  believe  is  too  often 
evaded,  bo  in  these,  and  in  all  cases,  strictly  enforced. 

III.  .Men  employed  to  aid  enrolling  officers  must,  if  subject  to  con- 
scription, be  regularly  enrolled ;  and,  unless  detailed  for  the  special 
duty  in  question  by  written  orders  of  the  War  department,  will  bo  re- 
ported to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  be  disposed  of  as  in  other 
cases. 

IV.  .Officers  will  be  held  to  strict  account  for  any  violation  or  neglect 
of  these  orders. 

v.. The  provisions  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67,  current 
series,  is  extended  to  officers  of  Major  A.  II.  Cole's  department.  The 
payments  authorized  will  be  made  by  any  post  quartermaster. 

VI.  .Officers  and  soldiers  in  the  general  service  cannot  be  transferred 
to  local  companies,  and  applications,  therefore,  will  not  be  entertained. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  lunpcctor- General. 


QiSNERAL  ORDERS, )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qenekal's  Office, 

No.  136.  f  Richmond,  October  21, 1863. 

Paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  100,  Adjutant  and  Inspector- 
General's  office,  last  series,  is  so  amended  as  to  authorize  payment  of 
the  money  value  of  clothing  which  may  be  due  the  soldier  at  the  end 
of  the  year,  as  therein  provided,  upon  descriptive  lists,  when  he  is 
absent  from  his  command  by  proper  authority  at  the  time,  and  will  be 
prevented  from  rejoining  it  within  sixty  days  thereafter. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Generat,'8  Office, 

No.  137.  J  Richmond,  October  22,  1863. 

The  authority  of  Commandants  of  Conscripts  to  make  details  for 
enrolling  service  of  officers  and  soldiers  coming  within  their  jurisdic- 
tion, under  the  eecond  clause  of  paragr4.ph  II  of  General  Orders,  No. 
82,  and  paragraph  V  of  General  Orders,  No.  96,  of  1862,  is  hereby  ex- 


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tended,  so  that  tliey  may  employ  such  persons  in  the  duties  of  railroad 
guards,  bridge  or  ferry  guards,  or  in  the  protection  of  public  property, 
at  the  request  of  the  of&cers  of  the  staff  departments,  or  of  local  mili- 
tary commanders.  Special  reports  will  be  made  of  all  such  details  to 
the  Bureau  of  Conscription. 

They  may  also  detail,  in  like  manner,  until  the  recovery  of  health, 
any  convalescents  borne  on  the  rolls  of  general  hospitals,  who  may  be 
reported  to  them  by  the  hospital  boards  as  unable  to  take  the  field,  but 
fit  for  light  duty — the  details  to  cease  at  the  time  that  may  be  indicated 
by  the  examinations  of  the  hospital  boards. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  138.  j  .  Richmond,  October  24, 1863. 

The  following  instructions  are  published  for  carrying  into  effect  the 
9th  section  of  the  act  of  26th  March,  1863,  to  regulate  impressments, 
in  resjject  to  labor  on  fortifications  and  other  public  works  in  states 
in  which  provisions  have  not  been  made  on  this  subject: 

1.  The  commanding  general,  or  the  officer  of  engineers  in  charge  of 
the  work,  shall  have  power  to  decide  upon  the  necessity  for  making  im- 
pressments of  slaves  for  this  purpose,  after  making  suitable  efforts  to 
secure  the  necessary  laborers  by  contract.  He  must  be  satisfied  of  the 
necessity  of  the  measure  before  he  resorts  to  it. 

2.  He  may  authorize  the  impressment  of  male  slaves  between  the 
ages  of  seventeen  and  fifty  years,  but  before  the  first  day  of  December 
next  shall  abstain  from  impressing  slaves  from  plantations  exclusively 
devoted  to  the  production  of  grain  and  provisions,  without  the  consent 
of  the  owner,  except  in  cases  of  urgent  necessity. 

3.  No  impressments  shall  be  made  of  the  slaves  employed  in  the  do- 
mestic and  family  service  exclusively,  nor  upon  farms  or  plantations 
where  there  are  not  more  than  three  slaves  of  age  specified;  and  not 
more  than  five  per  cent,  of  the  population  of  slaves  shall  be  impressed 
in  any  county  at  the  same  time,  unless  the  necessity  is  very  great,  and 
after  consultation  with  this  department  or  the  governor  of  the  state  in 
which  the  impressment  is  to  be  made. 

4.  The  ordinary  period  for  impressment  shall  be  sixty  days,  but  if  the 
owner  of  any  slave  shall  fail  to  bring  the  slaves  impressed  to  the  place 


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of  rendezvous  within  five  days  after  the  time  appointed,  the  slares  so 
withheld  may  be  detained  for  nine'ty  days,  and  for  a  longer  term  of  ten 
days  for  every  day  of  default,  unless  a  reasonable  excuse  be  given  for 
the  delays  that  have  occurred. 

5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commanding  general  in  charge  of  any 
lines  requiring  fortification,  to  acquaint  himself  with  the  resources  of 
slave  labor  within  his  department,  and  to  consider  with  care  the  man- 
ner in  which  he  may  obtain  the  control  of  whatever  is  necessary  for  the 
public  service,  by  fair  and  equitable  apportionment  among  the  owners 
of  such  property.  Ho  will  consult  with  the  governor  of  the  state  and 
other  State  authorities  as  to  the  best  mode  of  proceeding,  so  that  his 
impressment  may  cause  the  least  embarrassment  to  the  industrial  pur- 
suits o/  the  communitj-. 

6.  Notices  shall  be  given  of  the  number  and  character  of  the  slaves 
rcquir'eJ,  the  time  and  place  of  their  delivery,  the  time  for  which  the 
service  is  required,  and  of  the  arrangements  made  for  the  subsistence, 
management,  and  custody  of  the  slaves  so  required;  and  if  the  masters 
of  slavQS  shall  agree  to  furnish  subsistence  for  their  slaves,  and  a  suita- 
ble overseer  or  agent  to  superintend  them,  they  shall  have  the  privilege 
of  so  doing.  But  such  overseers  shall  be  subject  to  the  control  of  the 
olficer  in  charge,  and  may  bo  dismissed  for  any  misconduct  by  him. 

7.  The  sum  of  twenty  dollars  per  month  for  each  slave  delivered  in 
pursuance  to  requisition,  and  fifteen  dollars  per  month  for  each  slave 
held  in  consequence  of  failure  of  his  master  to  obey  requisition  made 
as  hereinbefore  provided,  shall  be  paid  bj'  the  Confederate  States,  and 
soldiers  rations,  medicines,  and  medical  attendance  furnished ;  and  the 
value  of  all  such  slaves  as  may  die  during  their  term  of  service  or 
thereafter,  from  injuries  received  or  disease  contracted  in  such  service, 
or  may  not  be  returned,  shall  be  paid  by  the  Confederate  States.  Such 
value  shall  be  conclusively  established  l>y  a  formal  appraisement  by  a 
board  of  experts  mutuallj'  agreed  upon  at  the  time  the  slaves  are  re- 
ceived into  the  Confederate  service.  Compensation  shall  also  be  made 
for  all  injuries  to  slaves  arising  from  the  act  of  the  public  enemy,  or  from 
any  injury  arising  from  the  want  of  due  diligence  on  the  part  of  the 
authorities  of  the  Confederate  States.  But  the  Confederate  States  will 
not  be  liable  for  any  slave  not  returned  by  reason  of  fraud  or  collusion 
on  the  part  of  the  owner  or  his  agent,  or  the  overseer  selected  by  him  to 
superintend  them,  nor  if  his  death  should  be  caused  by  the  act  of  God, 
or  by  disease  existing  when  the  slave  is  received  by  Confederate  au- 
thorities. 

8.  Subsistence  and  provisio\is  furnished  by  the  owner  shall  bo  com- 
muted for  at  the  rates  allowed  soldiers  in  service.     All  slaves  sent  vol- 


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untarily  to  the  Confederate  authorities  and  accepted  by  them,  without 
other  special  contract,  shall  stand  on  the  same  footing  as  those  deliver- 
ed under  requisition  ,•  and  the  owners  of  all  slaves  delivered  or  taken 
under  requisition  shall  be  entitled  to  regard  the  Confederate  States  as 
contracting  with  them  to  comply  with  the  obligations  and  conditions 
herein  expressed. 

9.  In  case  there  should  be  any  disagreement  on  the  subject  of  the 
value  of  any  slave  impressed,  or  in  case  the  impressing  oflBcer  shall  not 
be  satisfied  of  the  accuracy  of  any  valuation  or  valuations,  the  appraise- 
ment shall  be  referred  to  the  appraisers  appointed  under  the  6th  sec- 
tion of  the  act  concerning  impressments,  according  to  the  provisions  of 
the  act  of  Congress  approved  27th  April,  1863,  and  published  in  Orders 
No.  63,  current  series. 

By  order, 

S,  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspectok-General's  Ofiice, 

No.  139.  J  Richmond,  October  28, 1863. 

I.  .The  President  having  commuted  or  remitted  the  sentences  pro- 
nounced by  general  courts  martial  in  the  following  cases,  his  decision 
is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned : 

1.  Lieutenant  E.  M.  P.  Brown,  Company  B,  Sth  battalion  Georgia 
volunteers.  Charged  with  failure  to  suppress  mutiny,  and  exciting 
and  joining  therein. 

Sentence  :  Death. 

2.  First  Sergeant  Abner  Underwood,  Company  D,  Sth  battalion 
Georgia  volunteers ;  also, 

3.  Private  T.  P.  Wood  ; 

4.  Private  T.  ^Y.  Cannon  ; 

5.  Private  Wm.  Garner;  and 

6.  Private  T.  Roberts, 

of  Company  B,  Sth  battalion  Georgia  volunteers.     Charged  with  excit- 
ing and  joining  in  mutiny. 
Sentence  :  Death. 

J.  Private  Daniel  HoUis,  Company  B,  8th  battalion  Georgia  volun- 
teers.    Charged  with  exciting  and  joining  iu  mutiny. 

Sentence:  Confinement  with  ball  and' chain  for  twelve  months,  and 
forfeiture  of  pay. 


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The  aforesaid  parties  were  all  tried  by  general  court  martial  con- 
vened under  General  Orders,  No.  3,  of  1863,  Department  of  South 
Carolina,  Georgia,  and  Florida.  In  view  of  the  evident  want  of  dis- 
cipline in  this  battalion,  the  President  has  remitted  the  sentences  of  all 
the  parties.  Lieutenant  Brown,  Sergeant  Underwood,  and  Privates 
Wood,  Cannon,  Garner,  Roberts,  and  HoUis,  will,  therefore,  be  released 
from  confinement,  and  returned  to  duty. 

The  department  observes  with  regret  the  absence  of  a  just  military 
discipline  in  the  above-named  battalion.  Had  this  been  properly  ob- 
served and  enforced,  there  is  rea-^on  to  believe  these  trials  would  have 
been  obviated.  The  officers  in  charge  are  responsible  for  these  evils, 
and  must  correct  them.  At  the  same  time,  they  should  observe  toward 
the  soldiers  in  their  command  a  proper  degree  of  consideration  and 
kindness,  which  is  generally  a  sure  means  of  securing  obedience  and 
respect. 

II.. 8.  Private  Stephen  Outlaw,  of  Troop  A,  5th  Georgia  cavalry. 
Charged  with  desertion. 

Sentence  :   Death. 

Tried  by  general  court  martial  convened  under  General  Orders,  No. 
22,  of  February  6,  1863,  Department  of  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  and 
Florida.  This  is  not  properly  a  case  of  desertion.  The  prisoner 
escaped  the  guard  while  undergoing  sentence.  He  should  have  been 
returned  to  complete  his  sentence,  if  there  was  no  other  charge  against 
him  than  that  for  an  escape. 

Private  Outlaw  will  bo  released  from  confinement,  and  returned  to 
duty. 

9.  Lieutenant- Colonel  A.  C.  Edwards.  Charged  with  violating  the 
62d,  S3d,  and  99th  Articles  of  War. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  Special  Orders,  No.  118,  Head- 
quarters Department  of  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  and  Florida,  July  28, 
1862. 

Sentence  :  Suspension  from  rank  and  command,  without  pay,  for 
eighteen  months.     Commuted  to  reprimand  in  General  Orders. 

The  sentence  in  the  case  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edwards  was  the  just 
consequence  of  an  unbecoming  disregard  of  oflicial  obligations  on  his 
part.  In  directing  his  release  from  arrest  and  restoration  to  duty,  the 
department  indulges  the  hope  that  this  exercise  of  executive  clemency 
may  have  its  due  eflect  in  exciting  him  to  a  stricter  vigilance,  and  a 
more  exemplary  discharge  of  duty  in  the  future. 

10.  Lieutenant  James  M.  Chesser,  47th  Georgia  volunteers.  Charged 
with  defamation  of  character,  mutiny,  and  incompetency. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  11,  of  January 


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29,  1863,  from  Division  Head-quarters,  Wilmington,  N.  C,  issued  in 
pursuance  of  General  Orders,  No.  14,  Department  of  South  Carolina, 
Georgia,  and  Florida. 

Sentence:  Dismission  from  service,  with  forfeiture  of  pay  and  allow- 
ances. 

The  record  in  this  case  is  incomplete.  The  proceedings,  finding, 
and  sentence  are  disapproved;  and  Lieutenant  Chesser  will  be  released 
from  arrest,  and  returned  to  duty. 

III.. 11.  Second  Lieutenant  J.  J.  Wortham,  Waccamaw  light  artil- 
lery. Charged  with  sending  a  challenge,  and  with  conduct  to  the  prej- 
udice of  good  order  and  military  discipline. 

Sentence :  To  he  cashiered.  Commuted  to  reprimand  in  General  Or- 
ders. 

12.  Second  Lieutenant  W.  J.  Gore,  Waccamaw  light  artillery. 
Charged  with  carrying  a  challenge. 

Sentence:  To  be  cashiered.  Commuted  to  reprimand  in  General  Or- 
ders. 

13.  Lieutenant  L.  A.  Rice,  2d  regiment  S.  C.  volunteers.  Charged 
with  sending  and  accepting  a  challenge  to  fight  a  duel. 

Sentence:  To  be  cashiered.  Commuted  to  reprimand  in  General  Or- 
ders. 

Lieutenants  Wortham,  Gore,  and  Rice  were  tried  by  a  general  court 
martial  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  70,  of  May  20,  1863,  De- 
partment of  South  Carolina,  Georgia,  and  Florida. 

The  Articles  of  War  expressly  prohibit  the  sending  of  challenges  to 
fight;  and  all  seconds,  promoters,  and  carriers  of  challenges  are 
deemed  principals,  and  directed  to  be  punished  as  such — i.  e.,  by  being 
cashiered. 

The  otfences  of  which  these  officers  have  been  convicted  are  thus 
seen  to  be  of  a  very  grave  character,  and  can  not  be  regarded  with 
toleration.  Duelling  is  a  military  not  less  than  a  moral  offence.  It  is 
unfortunate  if  the  error  prevails  in  the  army  that  punishment  will  not 
be  inflicted  on  those  who  violate  the  laws  of  the  service  respecting  it ; 
and  the  department  avails  itself  of  this  occasion  to  express  its  unquali- 
fied reprobation  of  the  practice,  and  of  the  conduct  of  the  accused  in 
the  foregoing  trials. 

Lieutenant  Chesser  appears  to  have  rested  under  an  honest  misap- 
prehension as  to  his  duty  to  a  brother  officer,  in  bearing  a  challenge ; 
and  the  records  present,  in  the  cases  of  Lieutenants  Wortham  and  Rice, 
certain  mitigating  circumstances  which,  to  some  extent,  justify  the  rec- 
ommendations to  clemency  made  by  their  superior  officers. 


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These  considerations,  in  connection  with  the  too  generally  prevailing 
misapprehension  in  the  army  already  adverted  to,  have  determined 
the  Executive  so  far  to  respect  the  appeals  made  in  behalf  of  these 
oflBcers  as  to  direct  the  cotomutation  of  their  respective  sentences. 
They  will,  accordingly,  be  released  from  arrest,  and  restored  to  duty 
with  their  proper  companies. 

14.  Lieutenant  W.  C.  Pruitt,  Company  E,  20th  S.  C.  volunteers. 

Tried  under  Special  Orders,  No.  105,  March  10,  1863,  Department  of 
South  Carolina,  Georgia,  and  Florida,  for  intoxication  while  on  dutj\ 

Sentence :  To  be  dismissed  the  service.  No  evidence  was  submitted 
with  the  record  in  this  case. 

In  consideration  of  the  recommendation  of  the  commanding  general 
the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Lieutenant  Pruitt  will  be  released  from 
arrest,  and  returned  to  duty. 

16.  Private  C.  H.  Kent,  Company  D,  ISth  Virginia  battalion. 
Charged  with  desertion,  and  conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order 
and  military  discipline. 

Sentence :  Six  months  hard  labor,  with  ball  and  chain.  To  wear  a 
placard  with  the  word  "forger"  legibly  printed  thereon,  for  the  period 
of  six  months. 

Tried  by  general  court  martial  under  General  Orders,  No.  7,  of  Octo- 
ber 11,  1862,  Head-quarters  Richmond,  Va. 

The  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Private  Kent  will  be  released  from 
confinement,  and  assigned  to  a  company  in  the  Army  of  Northern  Vir- 
ginia. 

16.  Private  Major  Ruunclls,  Company  11,  2d  S.  C.  rifles. 

Tried  by  general  court  martial  convened  under  General  Orders,  No. 
4,  of  August  4,  186.3. 

Sentence:  Death.  Remitted;  and  Private  Runnells  will  be  released 
from  confinement,  and  returned  to  his  company. 

17.  Captain  R.  Y.  L.  Long,  Company  D,  Phillips'  legion  of  cavalry. 
Charged  with  disobedience  of  orders  and  breach  of  arrest. 

Sentence  :  To  be  cashiered.  Remitted  ;  and  Captain  Long  will  be  re- 
leased from  arrest,  and  returned  to  his  company. 

Tried  under  Special  Orders,  No.  205,  of  August  11,  1863,  Department 
of  Northern  Virginia. 

18. -Captain  R.  Z.  Ilarlee,  Company  D,  10th  S.  C.  volunteers. 
Charged  with  drunkenness. 

Sentence:  To  be  cashiered.  Remitted;  Captain  ILvrlee  will  be  re- 
leased from  arrest,  and  returned  to  duty. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  Special  Orders,  No.  134,  May  20, 
1863,  from  the  Army  of  Tennessee. 


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19.  Private  Henry  Taylor,  Company  F,  11th  Mississippi  volunteers. 
Charged  with  theft. 

Sentence:  To  have  his  head  shaved.  To  be  labelled  with  the  word 
"  theft;"  marched  through  cf  mp,  hat  off,  wearing  a  barrel — the  rogue's 
march  to  be  played  during  t'.  e  time.  To  be  confined  in  the  penitentiary 
two  years,  and  fed  on  breal  and  water  fourteen  days. 

Sentence  remitted.  Private  Taylor  will  be  released  from  confine- 
ment, and  transferred  to  some  other  army. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  133,  of  Decem- 
ber 7,  1862,  Army  of  Northern  Virginia. 

20.  Private  Freeman  W.  Johnson,  Read's  battery  light  artillery. 
Charged  with  disobedience  of  orders  —  violation  of  the  9th  Article  of 
War. 

Sentence  :  Death.  Commuted  to  labor  for  four  months,  and  trans- 
ferred to  some  other  command. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  133,  of  Decem- 
ber 7,  1862,  Army  of  Northern  Virginia. 

21.  Private  John  Duncan,  Company  F,  3d  Tennessee  volunteers. 
Charged  with  absence  without  leave ;  illegal  and  outrageous  assaults 
on  a  citizen  ;  brutal  assaults  on  a  woman,  with  attempt  to  commit  rape, 
on  two  occasions. 

Sentence :  Forfeiture  of  pay  and  allowances,  and  imprisonment  for 
twenty-five  years.  ' 

Residue  of  sentence  remitted.  Private  Duncan  will  be  released  from 
confinement,  and  returned  to  his  company. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  36,  Department 
of  East  Tennessee. 

22.  Second  Lieutenant  E.  H.  Hammel,  Company  B,  8th  Arkansas 
volunteers.     Charged  with  quitting  his  guard  without  leave,  etc. 

Sentence  :  To  be  dismissed.  Commuted  to  two  months  suspension 
from  rank  and  pay. 

Tried  by  military  court  of  General  Hardee's  corps,  Miiy  26,  1863. 

23.  Private  T.  W.  Barlow,  of  Game's  light  artillery.  Charged  with 
violating  the  46th  Article  of  War,  by  sleeping  on  post. 

Sentence:  Death.  Remitted;  and  Private  Barlow  will  be  released 
from  confinement,  and  returned  to  his  company. 

Tried  by  court  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  66,  of  March  13, 
1863,  Army  of  Tennessee. 

24.  Lieutenant  J.  R.  Simmons,  Comj^anyE,  12th  Georgia  volunteers. 
Charged  with  conduct  unbecoming  an  officer  and  gentleman. 

Sentence  :  To  be  dismissed.  Commuted  to  reprimand  in  orderSjVhich 
will  accordingly  be  done  by  his  commanding  officer. 

Tried  by  the  military  court  of  General  E well's  corps,  August  6,  1863. 


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25.  Lieutenant  E.  S.  McClung,  McClung's  Battery.  Charged  with 
violation  of  the  15th  and  39th  Articles  of  War,  and  conduct  to  the  prej- 
udice of  good  order  and  military  discipline. 

Sentence  :  To  be  cashiered,  and  disabled  to  hold  any  office  or  employ- 
ment in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  ;  to  have  his  name,  crime, 
and  place  of  abode  published  in  the  newspapers  in  and  about  the  camp 
of  Knoxville,  and  of  Huntsville,  Alabama;  after  which  it  shall  be  deem- 
ed scandalous  for  an  officer  to  associate  with  him. 

Sentence:  Commuted  to  dismissal  from  the  Confederate  service,  of 
which  Lieutenant  McClung  ceased  to  be  an  officer  on  the  14th  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1863. 

I  v..  The  S9th  Article  of  War  provides,  that  where  the  sentence  of 
a  court  martial  is  death,  or  the  cashiering  of  an  officer,  the  officer  con- 
vening the  court  may  suspend  execution  of  the  sentence  till  the  pleas- 
ure of  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  be  known. 

The  intent  of  this  article  is  not  to  relieve  commanding  generals  of 
responsibility,  but  to  cqable  them,  in  difficult  and  doubtful  cases,  to 
refer  the  question  to  higher  authority.  But  it  has  been  observed  that, 
in  many  cases  where  the  course  to  bo  pursued  was  rendered  obvious 
by  the  evidence,  commanding  officers  have,  nevertheless,  availed  them- 
selves of  the  privilege  conferred  in  the  article  referred  to,  by  sending 
on  the  record  to  be  viewed  by  the  President.  The  duties  of  the  Execu- 
tive are  sufficiently  onerous  without  the  accumulation  of  such  matters 
for  his  attention,  where  they  can  be  properly  disposed  of  elsewhere ; 
and  while  it  is  not  designed  to  weaken  the  provisions  of  the  Articles  of 
War,  or  interfere  with  the  views  of  duty  entertained  by  officers  on  this 
subject,  it  is  proper  to  remark  that  there  are  cases  of  capital  punish- 
ment and  dismissal,  Avhero  the  duty  of  the  commanding  general  is  ren- 
dered by  the  court  record  too  plain  to  be  doubted,  and  in  which  the 
responsibility  "  i)i  time  of  war,"  being  fixed  upon  him  in  the  first  in- 
stance by  the  law,  should  not  bo  avoided. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adjutant  and  Inspkctor-Generai/s  Officb, 

No.  140.  I  RiCHMOD,  October  27,  1863. 

The  assignment  of  conscripts  will  be  directed  by  the  Bureau  of  Con- 
scription   only,  except  such  as  may  be  properly  made  by  Brigadier- 


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General  Pillow  within  the  territory  allotted   to  him,  in  subordination 
to  General  J,  E,  Johnston. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Ins])ector-General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  141.  f  Richmond,  October  29,  1863. 

I.. The  practice  of  relieving  officers  from  commands  to  which  they 
have  been  appointed  and  assigned,  and  ordering  them  to  report  in  per- 
son to  this  office  for  further  assignment,  will  cease,  unless  specially  re- 
quired by  orders  from  this  office. 

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II.. Soldiers  returning   home  on   furlough,  or  on  reaching   places  at 

which  they  will  stay  during  furlough,  Avill  immediately  report  to  the 
nearest  enrolling  officer,  who  will  keep  a  register  of  their  names,  de- 
scriptive list,  place  where  stationed,  by  whom  the  furlough  was  granted, 
and  the  time  at  which  it  expires. 

III.  .When,  at  the  expiration  of  his  furlough,  and  being  at  a  distance 
from  an  hospital  examining  board,  a  soldier  is  unable  to  travel,  the 
enrolling  olilcer  will  order  him  before  the  board  of  examiners  for  con- 
scripts ;  and  the  medical  officer  and  one  of  the  physicians  "employed  " 
concurring,  they  will  forward  to  his  commanding  general,  with  a  state- 
ment of  bis  case,  a  recommendation  for  an  extension  of  furlough,  not 
to  e.xceed  thirty  days,  duplicates  being  also  sent  to  the  Surgeon-Gener- 
al. But  when  the  soldier  is  accessible  to  a  general  hospital,  he  will  be 
sent  before  the  hospital  examining  board,  who  will  conform  to  the  pre- 
ceding instructions. 

IV.  .In  cases  of  sickness  or  Avounds,  which,  from  any  cause,  are  neg- 
lected, or  do  not  receive  proper  treatment,  the  disability  in  consequence 
being  prolonged,  the  soldier  will  be  sent  by  the  enrolling  officer  to  the 
nearest  camp  of  instruction,  for  treatment  in  hospital. 

V.  .Recommendations  for  extension  of  leave  to  oflicers  and  furloughs 
to  soldiers,  and  medical  certificates  to  officers  and  certificates  of  disa- 
bility for  discharge  to  soldiers,  will  only  be  given  by  authorized  boards 
of  examiners  ;  or,  in  cases  embraced  in  paragraph  III  of  this  order,  by 
the  board  of  examiners  for  conscripts.     Recommendations   or  cortifi- 


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catcs  from  private  physicians,  or  from  a  medical  officer  singly,  will  not 
be  received.  Paragraphs  171  and  173,  General  Regulations,  and  para- 
graph I,  General  Orders,  No.  61,  current  series,  from  this  office,  are 
amended  to  accord  with  this  paragraph. 

VI.  .Furloughed  soldiers  will  not  be  permitted  to  go  within  the  lines 
of  the  enemy. 

VII.. lu  the  medical  examination  of  substitutes,  the  instructions  and 
requirements  of  panigraph  1,192,  General  Regulations  (paragraph  48 
Medical  Regulations),  will  bo  fully  adhered  to;  and  if  a  substitute  fails 
to  meet  the  conditions  of  that  paragraph,  ho  will  be  rejected. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Innpector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,'^  Adjutant  axd  InspectokGeneral's  Office, 

No.  142.  J  RicuMONP,  October  30, 1863. 

I.  .The  requirements  of  the  army  making  it  necessary  that  the  pres- 
ent supply  of  artillery  horses  and  other  field  transportation  be  careful- 
ly husbanded,  and  a  more  perfect  system  of  supplj'  adopted.  Major  A. 
II.  Cole,  Inspector-General  of  Field  Transportation,  in  addition  to  his 
present  duties,  is  hereby  charged  with  this  duty. 

II.. Under  his  orders,  all  inspections,  purchases,  impressments,  and 
issues  of  field  transportation  (including  artillery  horses)  will  be  made, 
and  recruiting,  fabricating,  and  repairing  done  throughout  the  Con- 
federate States ;  and  all  other  oflicers  are  prohibited  from  purchasing 
or  disposing  of  this  description  of  property,  except  such  as  may  bo 
specially  authorized  to  purchase  by  the  commanding  general  of  an 
army,  whose  field  of  operation,  in  such  cases,  shall  be  confined  to  the 
limits  of  the  army  and  the  country  immediately  in  the  advance;  and 
under  no  circumstances  will  such  oDQeer.'i  be  allowed  to  purchase  with- 
in a  district  of  country  to  which  a  regularly  appointed  purchasing 
otiicer  has  been  assigned. 

III.. The  Quartermaster- General  is  authorized  to  district  the  Con- 
federate States  for  the  purposes  named,  and  will  assign  officers  to  the 
duty,  who  will  control   the  subject  within  their  respective  districts,  un- 
der such  rules  and  regulations  as  he  may  eatabliah. 
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IV.. Officers  charged  with  inspection  of  field  transportation  are 
authorized  to  make  inspections  anywhere  within  the  limits  of  their  as- 
signment, and  to  condemn,  and  order  to  be  turned  in  to  the  nearest 
post  quartermaster,  all  artillery  horses  and  other  transportation  found 
unserviceable,  to  be  so  disposed  of  as  the  chief  inspector  of  the  district 
may  direct. 

v..  Chief  quartermasters  of  armies  or  quartermasters  at  posts  other 
than  thos«  in  the  field,  will  make  their  estimates  on  the  chief  inspector 
of  the  district  for  such  field  transportation  as  they  may  require.  "When 
necessai-y  for  the  protection  of  parties  collecting  animals  near  the  ene- 
my's lines,  a  cavalry  escort  will  be  furnished  by  the  nearest  commander 
of  troops. 

VI.  .The  horses  and  other  property  in  use  in  the  Commissary  depart- 
ment must  not  be  impressed  by  ofiicers  of  any  other  department. 
By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

AdjiUant  and  Inspector-General. 


GKNERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  143.  J  Richmond,  November  3,  1863. 

The  following  notice  of  exch  anged  officers  and  men  is  published  for 
the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

Richmond,  Va.,  October  16,  1863. 

The  following  Confederate  officers  and  men  are  hereby  declared  duly 
exchanged : 

1.  All  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  at  any  time  previous  to 
the  1st  of  September,  1863.  This  section,  however,  is  not  intended  to 
include  any  officers  or  men  captured  at  Vicksburg  July  4,  1863,  except 
such  as  were  declared  exchanged  by  Exchange  Notice  No.  6,  September 
12,  1863,  or  are  specifically  named  in  this  notice.  But  it  does  embrace 
all  deliveries  made  at  City  Point  or  other  places  before  September  1, 
1863,  and,  with  the  limitations  above-named,  all  captures  at  Port  Hud- 
son, or  any  other  place  where  the  parties  were  released  on  parole. 

2.  The  stafi"  of  Generals  Pemberton,  Stevenson,  Bowen,  Moore,  Bar- 
ton, S.  D.  Lee,  Cummings,  Harris,  and  Baldwin,  and  of  Colonels  Rey- 
nolds, Cockrell,  and  Dockery,  the  ofiicers  and  men  belonging  to  the 
engineer  corps,  and  sappers  and  miners,  and  the  4th  and  46th  Missis- 
sippi regiments,  all  captured  at  Vicksburg  July  4,  1863. 


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3.  The  gpncral  officers  captured  at  Vicksbiirg  July  4,  1863,  were  de- 
clared exchanged  July  13,  1863. 

Ro.   OtJLD, 
Agent  of  Exchange. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  IiiKpector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS.  1  Adjctart  and  Inspector-Gbneral's  Onici, 

No.  144.  J  Richmond,  N^member  6, 1863. 

To  relievo  prev.alent  misconceptions  in  regard  to  the  policy  nnd  prac- 
tice of  the  department  on  the  subject  of  impressment,  the  following, 
being  extracts  of  General  Orders  of  March  19,  is  repeated  : 

GENERAL  ORDERS, "j  Adjutant  and  iNSPECTon-GENERAL's  Office, 

No.  31.  j  Richmond,  March  19, 1863. 

In  mnsequoncc  of  immcrons  applications  made  by  various  persons  to  the  War 
(Ippartmont.  it  is  obvious  that  somo  miscouception  in  regard  to  the  iustrnctions  of 
tbc  Secretary  of  War  in  relation  to  the  impressment  of  supplies  must  exist  on 
the  part  of  the  people,  or  that  the  agents  of  the  government  have  violated  their 
instructions:  Now,  therefore,  for  the  purpose  of  removing  such  misconception) 
and  to  prevent  anj*  violation  of  those  instructions,  it  Is  hereby  ordered  : 

I.  That  no  officer  of  the  government  shall,  under  any  circumstances  whatever, 
impress  the  su])plies  which  a  party  has  for  his  own  consumption,  or  that  of  his 
family,  employees,  or  slaves. 

II.  That  no  officer  shall  at  any  time,  unless  specially  ordered  so  to  do  by  a 
general  commanding,  in  a  case  of  exigency,  impress  supplies  which  are  on  their 
way  to  market  for  sale  on  arrival. 

III.  These  orders  were  included  in  the  instructions  originally  issued  in  relation 
to  impressment  by  the  Secretary  of  War ;  and  the  officers  exercising  such  author- 
ity are  again  notified  that  "  any  one  acting  without  or  beyond  "  the  authority 
given  in  those  instructions,  will  be  held  strictly  responsible. 

In  conformity  with  the  foregoing,  to  prevent  any  inconsiderate  ac- 
tion on  the  part  of  officers  or  agents  charged  with  the  duty  of  impress- 
ment, they  are  enjoined,  until  further  orders,  which  will  not  be  given 
unless  under  imperative  exigencies  for  the  supply  of  the  army,  not  to 
impress  any  necessaries  of  subsistence  to  man,  owned  by  producers,  in 
transitu  to  market,  or  after  arrival  at  market,  unless  retained  an  un- 
reasonable time  from  sale  to  consumers. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inepector-Oeneral. 


196 


GBNERAIi  ORDERS; 
No.  145. 


I 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qenebai'b  Ofhce, 
Richmond,  Xovemher  7,  1863. 


The  following  appendi.x  to  the  report  of  the  appraisers  for  the  State 
of  Virginia  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

Hon.  Jamee  A.  Seddon  : 

Sir:  As  indicated  in  our  last  report,  we  respectfully  submit  a  few 
changes  in  our  schedules  of  prices.  Upon  the  various  grades  of  cotton 
and  woolen  cloths  and  warps  used  by  the  government,  we  assess  the 
prices  annexed  to  each  description  of  goods,  as  follows  : 


67  Army  woolen  cl'h, 

%yard 

68  Army  woolen  crh, 


69  Army  woolen  d'h, 

6-4  yard 

70  Army  woolen  cl'li. 


Good. 


10  oz.  per  yard... 

Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 
width  or  wei't.. 


71  Flannels ^ 

72  Cotton  shirt'g..% 

73  Cotton  sliirt'g..% 

74  Cotton  sUeet'g  4-4 

75  Cotton  osnab'g.% 

76  Cotton  osnab'g  % 

77  Cotton  drills....^ 

78  Cot.  shirt,  stripes, 

79  Cotton  tent  cloths 

80  On  the  above  enumerated 

weight. 

81  Cotton  warps |  Good 


Per  yard., 


Per  yard. 


Per  yard. 


20  07..  per  yard, 
Pro    rata    as  to 

greater   or  less 

width  or  wei't.. 
6  oz.  por  yard.... 
V/n  yards  to  lb... 
3%  yards  to  lb... 
3    yards  to  lb.... 

6  oz.  per  yard 

8  oz.  per  yard 

3  yards  to  lb 

3  3'ards  to  lb 

10  oz.  to  yard.... 
cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater  or  less 


$  5  00 


4  00 
66 

84 

?1« 


88 
1  12 

width  or 


Per  pound |     2  00 


Good  hay,  taken  on  the  farms  of  producers,  unbaled,  we  assess  at 
three  dollars  per  100  lbs.,  and  good  wheat  straw,  taken  on  the  farms  of 
the  producers,  we  also  assess  at  one  dollar  and  thirty  cents  per  100  lbs., 
unbaled.  For  hauling  hay  and  wheat  straw,  etc.,  per  100  lbs.,  eight 
cents  per  mile,  and  for  hauling  corn  and  wheat,  per  bushel,  four  cents 
per  mile,  and  for  baling  hay  and  wheat  straw,  fifty  cents  per  100  lbs. 

Upon  further  consideration,  we  have  assessed  the  price  of  good  fat 
fresh  pork  at  sixty  cents  per  pound  net  weight. 

We  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have  our  reports 
and  schedules  printed  in  hand-bill  form,  and  that  several  copies  bo  fur- 
nished to  each  of  the  quartermasters  and  commissaries  agents  engaged 
in  impreasing  for  the  government. 

Most  respectfully, 

E.    W.    HUBARD, 
Rob'T    QlBBONET, 

Commissioners  of    Virginia. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  arid  Inopector-General. 


By  order. 


197 

OENEIIAL  ORDKRS,"!  Adjvtant  and  Inspkctor-General's  Ofpicb, 

No.  146.  )  RicnsioNB.  November  9,  1863. 


I.  .The  subjoined  statement  of  the  cost  of  clothing  for  the  army  is 
published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned  : 

Statement  of  the  Cost  of  Clothing  for  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  Slates, 
for  the  year  commencing  January  ],  1864. 

Cap,  complete $  2  00 

Cover 38 

Jacket 14  00 

Trowsers 12  00 

Shirt 3  00 

Drawers 3  GO 

Shoes,  pairs 10  00 

Socks,  pairs 1  00 

Leather  stock 25 

rtreat-coat 25  00 

Stable  frock  (for  mounted  men) ...*,  2  00 

Fatigue  overall  ( for  eng'rs  and  ord.) 3  00 

Blanket 10  00 

II.  .From  the  time  this  takes  effect,  and  until  further  orders,  soldiers 
will  be  charged  and  credited  on  account  of  clothing  to  which  they  are 
entitled,  as  provided  in  General  Orders,  No.  100,  last  series,  at  those 
rates,  and  not  at  invoice  prices. 

Bj'  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


QENKRAL  ORDERS, "j  Apjutant  ajjd  Inspector-Gknkral's  Opficj, 

No.  147.  J  RiCHMOXD,  JVbremfeer  17, 1863. 

For  the  due  authentication  of  military  orders  exhibited  in  evidence 
before  the  judicial  tribunals,  it  is  hereby  declared  that  the  Orders  of 
the  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General  have  the  force  of  Regulations  for 
the  government  of  all  branches  of  the  army,  and  that  printed  or  writ- 
ten copies  of  the  same  arc  duly  authentioated  when  endorsed  as  ollicial 
by  any  assistant  adjutant-general,  or  by  any  chief  of  a  bureau  of  this 
department. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Iniptctor-OentraL 


198 

GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oeneral's  Offick, 

No.  148.  )  Richmond,  November  18,  1863. 

I.  .The  quarterly  returns  of  arms,  accoutrements,  and  equipments  in 
the  hands  of  troops,  required  by  paragraph  1,348  of  the  Army  Regula- 
tions, have  heretofore  been  furnished  in  a  very  few  cases  only  by  com- 
manding officers  of  regiments  and  battalions.  These  returns  are 
deemed  essential,  and  will  hereafter  be  promptly  rendered. 

II.. It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  generals  commanding  brigades  to 
see  that  these  returns  are  made  on  the  1st  of  January,  April,  July,  and 
October  of  each  year,  and  forwarded,  through  the  regular  channels,  to 
the  Chief  of  Ordnance  at  Richmond,  within  twenty  days  after  these 
dates  respectively. 

III.  .Should  any  officer  fail  to  render  the  return  required  on  the  1st 
of  January  next  within  twenty  days  thereafter,  the  brigadier-general 
commanding  the  brigade  to  which  the  ofiBcer  is  attached  will  cause 
charges  for  "disobedience  of  orders,"  or  of  "neglect  of  duty,"  as  the 
case  may  require,  to  bo  made  and  forwarded,  without  delay,  to  the 
general  commanding,  for  his  action.  The  same  action  will  be  taken  on 
every  subsequent  omission  to  render  such  returns. 

IV.  .Brigade  and  district  ordnance  officers  will  give  every  assistance 
to  colonels  of  regiments  and  officers  commanding  battalions  in  the 
preparation  of  the  "  returns,"  according  to  the  form  prescribed ;  and 
they  will  also  see  that  arms  and  accoutrements  lost  by  the  men  are 
duly  charged  against  them  on  the  muster-rolls  of  their  respective  com- 
panies. 

v.. The  chief  ordnance  officer  of  every  army  and  department  will 
promptly  report  to  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  bureau  every  officer  in 
the  command  to  which  he  is  attached  who  fails  to  make  the  "returns" 

herein  required. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-G eneral. 


199 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  ADJUTAyr  axd  Inspector-Oeneral's  Opfick, 

No.  149.  )  RicnMOJfD,  JVovemher  19, 1863. 

I.  .The  pay  and  allowances  of  men  detailed  for  work  (except  for 
government  work)  will  cease  during  such  detail,  and  in  lieu  thereof 
full  wages  will  be  paid  them  by  the  persons  or  parties  to  whom  they 
arc  ordered  to  report. 

II.  .The  attention  of  all  commanding  officers,  whose  duty  it  may  be 
to  examine  the  abstracts  of  issue.-?  of  commissaries  or  assistant  com- 
missaries of  subsistence,  is  particularly  directed  to  General  Orders, 
No.  12,  March  10,  1862.  Those  commanding  officers  will  also  see  that 
only  the  number  of  enlisted  men  actually  present  on  duty  are  included 
in  "provision  returns;"  and  that  if  any  change  takes  place  in  that 
number  during  the  period  drawn  for,  that  a  corresponding  allowance  is 
duly  made  in  the  no.\t  subsequent  return,  and  also  that  the  provisions 
drawn  are  well  tukon  care  of,  and  economically  used. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-Oenerat, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Abjutant  and  Inspectoe-Qeneral's  Office, 

No.  150.  )  RiCHMONT),  November  21. 1863. 


I.. Enlisted  men  who  have  been  (or  may  become)  permanently  dis- 
abled, and  who  hold  a  certificate  of  a  medical  examining  board  to  that 
ofifoct,  and  who  have  not  been  discharged  the  service,  may  have  their 
rations  commuted  at  ($1  25)  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  diem, 
whether  they  are  in  a  hospital,  private  quarters,  or  on  furlough. 

IL.JIen  liable  to  conscription,  who  have  joined  companies  for  local 
defence,  will  bo  discharged  from  such  companies  and  conscribed.    This 
order  is  not  intended  to  affect  companies  for  which  special  exception 
has  been  made  by  the  War  department. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspeetor-OcneraL 


200 

GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspectoe-Geneeal's  Office, 

No.  151.  j  Richmond,  Ifovemher  23,  1863. 

I.. Forage  in  kind  will  be  issued  to  oflScers  (entitled  to  it)  stationed, 
by  orders  from  tbe  War  department,  at  posts,  and  not  in  the  field,  for 
but  one  horse  each.  In  lieu  of  forage,  eight  dollars  a  month  may  be 
allowed  for  each  horse  to  which  the  officer  may  be  entitled.  A  certifi- 
cate in  each  case  will  be  given,  that  the  "  horses  are  actualli/  kept  in 
service,  and  mustered  " 

II..  Officers  of  the  Adjutant- General,  Quartermaster,  Commissary 
(except  purchasing  commissaries).  Medical,  and  Ordnance  departments, 
signal  and  regimental  officers  (except  commanders  of  regiments),  and 
subalterns  of  artillery,  who  are  serving  in  the  field,  will  be  embraced 
i  n  the  provisions  of  paragraph  I  of  this  Order,  unless  otherwise  order- 
ed by  the  commanding  general. 

By  order. 

S.   COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,~|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  152.  J  Richmond,  November  24,  1863. 

I.  .A  court  of  inquiry  having  been  convened  at  Jackson,  Mississippi, 
by  Special  Orders,  No.  41,  from  this  office,  dated  February  18,  1863, 
amended  by  Special  Orders,  No.  43,  of  February  20,  1863,  to  examine 
and  report  the  facts  and  circumstances  attending  the  capture  of  the 
City  of  New  Orleans  by  the  enemy  in  April,  1862,  and  the  defenceof  the 
city  by  the  Confederate  troops  under  command  of  Major-Gcneral  Mans- 
field Lovell,  together  with  tlieir  opinion  thereon  :  and  the  court  having 
discharged  the  duty  assigned  them,  their  opinion  is  published  for  the 
benefit  of  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

II.  .Opinion  of  the  Court. 

The  court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced,  submit 
the  following 

opinion. 

1.  As  against  a  land  attack  by  any  force  the  enemy  could  probably 
bring,  the  interior  line  of  fortifications,  as  adopted  and  completed  by 
Major-General  Lovell,  was  a  sufficient  defence  of  the  City  of  New  Or- 
leans; but  his  ability  to  hold  that  line  against  such  an  attack  was 
greatly  impaired  by  the  withdrawal  from  him,  by  superior  authority, 
of  nearly  all  his  effective  troops. 


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2.  The  exterior  line,  as  adopted  and  improved  by  bim,  was  well 
devifed,  and  rendered  as  strong  as  the  means  of  his  command  allowed. 

3.  Until  the  iron-clad  gunboats  Louisiana  and  Mississippi  should  be 
ready  for  service,  it  was  indispensably  necessary  to  obstruct  the  navi- 
gation of  the  Mississippi  river  between  Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Philip. 
The  raft  completed  under  General  Lovell's  direction  was  adequate  for 
the  purpose  while  in  position;  but  it  was  swept  away,  and  left  the 
river  unimpeded,  either  by  reason  of  some  error  in  its  construction,  or 
neglect  in  preventing  the  accumulation  of  drift,  or  because  of  insupera- 
ble mechanical  ditficulties,  as  to  which  this  court  feels  unprepared  to 
give  an  opinion.  General  Lovell  communicated  to  the  government  no 
opinion  as  to  the  insecurity  of  the  raft,  nor  any  apprehension  that  it 
might  bo  swept  away,  nor  did  he  immediately  make  known  that  fact 
when  it  occurred.  In  this  it  is  considered  that  ho  was  remiss  in  hii 
duty. 

4.  When  the  raft  was  swept  away  General  Lorell,  with  great  ener- 
gy, immediately  endeavored  to  replace  it,  and  partially  succeeded;  but, 
without  fault  on  his  part,  this  last  obstruction  was  broken  by  the  care- 
lessness of  vessels  of  the  "river-defence  fleet"  colliding  with  it,  and 
by  fire-rafts  drifting  against  it,  and  by  the  failure  of  the  guard-boats  to 
protect  it  against  night  expeditions  of  the  enemy. 

5.  The  non-completion  of  the  iron-clad  gunboats  Louisiana  and  Mis- 
sissippi made  it  impossible  for  the  uavy  to  co-operate  efficiently  with 
General  Lovell. 

6.  The  so-called  river-defence  fleet  was  whollj'  useless  as  a  means  of 
resistance  to  the  enemy,  for  which  General  Lovell  was  in  no  wise  re- 
sponsible. 

7.  Xlnder  the  existing  circumstances,  the  passage  of  the  forts  b.v  the 
enemy's  fleet  could  not  have  been  prevented  by  (Jeneral  Lovell  with 
any  means  under  his  control ;  and  the  forts  being  passed,  the  fall  of  New 
Orleans  was  inevitable,  and  its  evacuation  a  military  necessity. 

8.  When  the  first  raft  was  broken,  and  the  danger  of  New  Orleans 
thus  became  imminent,  all  necessary  preparation  should  have  been 
made  for  removing  the  public  property  and  private  property  available 
for  military  uses;  and  when  the  second  obstruction  was  swept  away 
the  removal  of  such  property  should  have  been  commenced  immediate- 
ly. The  failure  to  take  these  timely  steps  caused  the  losses  of  property 
that  occurred ;  but  there  was,  comparatively,  but  little  property  lost 
for  which  General  Lovell  was  responsible. 

9.  The  failure  of  General  Lnvell  to  give  proper  orders  to  Brigadier- 
General  M.  L.  Smith  for  the  retirement  of  his  command  from  Chalmette 


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is  not  sufficiently  explained,  and  is,  therefore,  regarded  as  a  serious 
error. 

10.  The  proposition  of  General  Lovell  to  return  to  New  Orleans  with 
his  commaud  was  not  demanded  by  his  duty  as  a  soldier,  involving,  as 
it  did,  the  useless  sacrifice  of  himself  and  his  troops,  though  it  explains 
itself  upon  the  ground  of  sympathy  for  the  population,  and  a  natural 
sensitiveness  to  their  reproaches. 

11.  General  Lovell  displayed  great  energy  and  an  untiring  industry 
in  performing  his  duties.  His  conduct  was  marked  by  all  the  coolness 
and  self-possession  due  to  the  circumstances  and  his  position  ;  and  he 
evinced  a  high  capacity  for  command,  and  the  clearest  foresight  in 
many  of  his  measures  for  the  defence  of  New  Orleans. 

The  court  respectfully  report  that  its  assembly  was  delayed  by  the 
failure  of  its  president  to  receive  his  orders  in  due  time,  and  that  its 
session  was  protracted  by  the  taking  of  testimony  under  the  order  of 
the  War  department,  as  to  the  conduct  of  naval  officers  on  duty  in  De- 
partment No.  1.  This  order  was  rescinded,  thus  rendering  useless  and 
irrelevant  much  of  the  labor  of  the  court.  The  testimony  referred  to, 
although  appearing  on  record,  was  not  considered  by  the  court  in  de- 
termining its  findings  and  opinion. 

III.  .The  court  of  inquiry  in  the  foregoing  case  is  hereby  dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.'  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  iNSPECTon-GENEnAL's  Office, 

No.  153.  f  Richmond,  November  25,.  1863. 

Abuses  having  occurred,  from  misconception  of  the  force  due  to  the 
passports  certifying  to  the  citizenship  of  the  Confederate  States,  which 
are  issued  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  as  matter  of  right  to  any  citizen 
for  use  in  foreign  countries,  it  is  announced  that  such  passports  are 
not  intended  to  have,  and  have  not  any  effect  whatever,  in  the  Confed- 
eracy, to  entitle  to  pass  the  Confederate  lines,  or  to  sail  from  Confede- 
rate ports,  without  due  compliance  with  all  police  or  military  regula- 
tions prevailing  there,  or  to  exempt  from  military  or  other  service  im- 
posed by  law  or  regulations. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Liapector-Oeneral. 


303 

GENERAL  ORDEUS,"|  Adjuta:<t  axd  iNsPKCTOn-GENERAL's  Office, 

No.  154.  j  Richmond,  Noveiriber  20,  18C3. 

I.  .No  ordnance  or  ordnance  stores  otber  than  those  prescribed  in  the 
Ordnance  Manual,  edition  of  1863,  or  specially  approved  by  the  Ord- 
nance bureau,  are  allowed  to  be  purchased  or  fabricated.  The  permis- 
sion given  to  officers  by  paragraph  1,232,  Army  Register  (paragraph  9, 
Ordnance  Regulations),  to  provide  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  "in 
case  of  urgent  necessity,"  is  to  be  exercised  subject  to  the  above  re- 
strictions. 

II.  .Accounts  paid  by  disbursing  officers  for  the  purchase,  frabrica- 
tion,  or  repair  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  contrary  to  the  fore- 
going order,  will  not  be  admitted  in  the  settlement  of  their  accounts. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjdiant  and  iNSPECTOR-QBNEnAL's  Office, 

No.  155.  J  RicuMOND,  Novtmher  28, 1863. 

I.. In  order  that  detachments,  unaccompanied  by  quartermasters, 
may  be  supplied  with  the  means  of  obtaining  forage,  quartermasters  of 
the  regiments  or  commands  to  which  they  belong  are  hereby  authorized 
to  furnish  to  the  officer  in  command,  or  such  other  officer  as  may  be 
designated,  sufficient  funds  for  that  purpose,  upon  duplicate  receipts 
being  given  therefor.  Upon  the  return  of  the  detachment,  the  officer 
receiving  such  funds  shall  return  to  the  quartermaster  an  account  of 
the  expenditures  for  forage,  which  will  exhibit  the  amount  expended, 
the  number  of  animals,  and  the  time  during  which  they  shall  have  boon 
subsisted.  Upon  the  rendition  of  such  accounts,  and  the  repayment  of 
any  unexpended  balance  in  his  hands,  the  officer  will  be  entitled  to  the 
return  of  his  original  receipts,  and  the  quartermaster  will  account  for  the 
forage  so  obtained  as  if  the  same  had  been  purchased  and  issued  by 
him. 

II.. When  small  detachments  are  sent  oflf,  unaccompanied  by  a  com- 
missioned officor,  quartermasters  are  authorized  to  commute  their 
forage  rations  in  advance,  for  the  time  designated  in  the  order  for  such 
detached  service,  filing  a  certified  copy  of  such  order  in  support  of  the 
voucher;  or,  upon  the  return  of  detachments  to  their  commands,  when 


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no  fiiuds  shall  have  heeu  supplied  under  the  foregoing  provisions,  ex- 
penditures incurred  for  forage  by  the  officer  in  command  of  such  de- 
tachments, within  the  regulation  allowance,  may  be  reimbursed  by  the 
quartermaster  of  the  command,  upon  accounts,  supported  bj' affidavits, 
and  approved  by  the  commanding  ofBeer. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-GeiiernU 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Offick, 

No.  156.  J  Richmond,  November  30, 1863. 

I.  .At  a  general  court  martial  convened  by  Special  Orders,  No.  196, 
of  August  10,  1863,  Head-quarters  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  was  ar- 
raigned and  tried  : 

Col.  R.  M.  Mayo,  47th  Virginia  regiment,  on  the  following  Charge 
and  Specification  : 

Charge:  Drunkenness  on  duty. 

Specification :  In  this:  that  Colonel  R.  M.  Mayo,  47th  Virginia  regi- 
ment, while  on  duty  in  command  of  the  provost-guard  at  Hagerstown, 
Md.,  for  the  protection  of  its  inhabitants,  and  the  establishment  of 
order  and  quiet  in  the  town,  did  become  intoxicated  on  or  about  the  8th 
of  July,  1863. 

11,  .  Fiitdiiiij  and  Sentence  of  the   Court. 

The  court  find  the  accused.  Colonel  R.  M.  Mayo,  47th  Virginia  regi- 
ment, as  follows  : 

Of  the  Specification  :   Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge:  Guiltj'. 

And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  .The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case,  approved  by  the  com- 
manding general,  having  been  submitted  to  the  President,  with  the 
recommendations  of  the  officers  formerly  associated  with  Colonel  Mayo, 
and  others,  for  his  restoration,  the  following  is  the  President's  decision 
in  the  case : 

"  Sentence  remitted  on  the  recommendations  submitted.  Let  the 
officer  be  restored  to  duty." 

Colonel  R.  M.  Mayo,  47th  Virginia  volunteers,  is,  therefore,  restored 


205 

to  his  command,  nnd  will  immediately  report  for  orders  to  General  R. 
E.  Lee. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Inupcctor-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"|  Adjutant  and  iNspECTOR-Qr.xfUAL's  Ofhoe, 

No.  157.  j  Richmond,  December  1, 1863. 

I.. The  provisions  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67,  current 
series,  are  hereby  extended  so  as  to  include  officers  of  the  Commissary 
department,  and  such  agents  of  that  department  as  have  been  appoint- 
ed by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

II.. When  a  soldier,  ordered  before  a  "board  of  examiners  for  con- 
scripts," or  a  "hospital  examining  board,"  in  pur.«uance  of  paragraph 
III,  General  Orders,  No.  141,  current  series,  is  unable  to  appear  by 
reason  of  physical  disability,  he  will  forward  to  the  enrolling  oflicer  a 
certificate  to  this  effect,  signed  by  his  attending  physician,  which  cer- 
tificate will  also  embrace  a  full  and  accurate  statement  of  the  case. 
The  enrolling  officer  will  submit  the  certificate  to  either  board,  who,  in 
conference  with  him,  will  make  upon  it  such  recommendation  as  may 
be  warranted  by  the  facts  ascertained  and  the  character  of  the  parties. 
This  recommcndatiou,  with  the  statement,  will  bo  forwarded  as  direct- 
ed in  the  paragraph  above  quoted. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  fnupcctor-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adjutant  and  lN8PKCt0R-GENF,RAi."s  Opfice, 

No.  158.  J  Richmond,  December  3. 1803. 

The  following  is  published  as  a  schedule  of  the  average  cost  of  arms, 
parts  of  arms,  and  accoutrements,  as  required  by  paragraph  78  of  Ord- 
nance Regulations: 


206 

Schedule  of  Prices. 


PERCUSSION  LOCK. 


■a  -+  -^ 


Barrel  with  sight,  ■without  breech.... 

Breecli  screw  

Bayonet,  or  band  stnd 

Tiing  screw 

Cone 

Lock  plato 

Tumbler 

Tumbler  screw 

Bridle 

Sear 

Sear  spring 

Main  spring 

Lock  screws,  each 

Hammer 

Side  plate  (with  band  for  pistol).... 

Side  screws,  each 

Upper  band . 

Middle  band 

Lower  band 

Upper  band  spring 

Middle  band  spring 

Lower  band  spring 

Guard  plate 

Guard  plate  screws,  each 

Guard  bow,  without  swivels 

Guard  bow  nut,  each 

Swivels  and  rivets,  each 

Trigger 

Trigger  screw 

Butt  plate 

Butt  plate  screw,  each 

Ramrod 

Kamrod  spring 

Eamrod  wires 

Bam  rod  stop 

Stock 

Bayonet 

Bayonet  clasp 

Bayonet  clasp  screw 

Ramrod  swivel  and  rivet 

Eamrod  swivel  and  rivet  screw , 

Sword  bayonet  blade 

Sword  bayonet  hilt,  without  clasp., 

Sight  base 

Long  branch  (leaf) 

Short 

Sight  screws,  each 

Sight,  complete.. 

Barrel,  complete 

Lock,  complete 

Guard,  complete 

Bayonet,  complete 

Arm,  complete,  with  bayonet 

Enfield  rifle,  complete 

Appendages  for  all  arms: 

Screw  driver  and  cone  wrench , 

Wiper 

Ball  screw.; 

Spring  vise 


$10  25 
56 
02 
18 
17 
1  35 
98 
06 
34 
74 
44 

1  06 
04 
72 
18 
21 
C9 
45 
17 
14 
14 
14 
70 
06 
48 
10 
26 
19 
04 

2  05 
19 

3  50 
28 
02 
02 

3  20 

6  48 

31 

04 


10  81 

5  88 
1  75 

6  00 
41  00 


1  50 
75 
75 

1  60 


$11  15 
56 
02 
18 
17 
1  35 
98 
06 
34 
74 
44 

1  06 
04 
72 
12 
21 
17 
46 
17 
14 
14 
14 
70 
06 
48 
10 
25 
19 
04 

2  05 
19 

3  66 


02 

3  20 

5  48 

31 

04 


6  00 
6  00 
32 
19 
18 
05 
82 
11  71 

5  88 
1  75 

6  00 
42  00 
60  00 

1  50 
76 
76 

1  60 


207 


SCHEPULE    OF    PniCES — CONTINUED. 


("Gripe 

Hilt \  Head 

(.Guard 

Blade 

Mouth-piece . 


Body.. 
Scnbbard... -{  BrikIh  and  ring;8. 

IFrrnlc  and  stud.... 
Tip 

Arm,  complete 


SWORDS  AMD  SABRES. 


i. 

o 

a 
o 

OJ 

>» 

!l 

fr 

e 

& 

•a 

o 

h* 

a 

< 

m 

$0  60 

2  10 
.T  30 
8  50 

60 

3  60 
1  80 

50 


31  00 


n 

79 

1  85 

3  70 

3  36 

1  64 

2  44 

3  03 

8  32 

9  05 

4  47 

7  20 

42 

4  20 

2  13 

1  30 

58  16 

2  .'■.2 

54 

1  06 

84 

i  U 

1  06 

53 

1  14 

iji  6b 

17  00 

10  50 

18  00 

00 
1  OS 
1  08 
8  64 


2  26 


1  13 
1  12 
18  00 


Cartridge  box 

Cartridge  box  belt  (leather) 

Cartridp:o  box  belt  (canvas) 

rtajonft  scabbard  and  frog 

Waist  belt  (leiither) 

Waist  belt  (canvas) 

Cap  pouch  and  pick 

Gun  sling 

Sabre  belt il 

Sword  belt 

Carbine  sling 

Powder  flask  (tin) 

Canteen , 

Canteen  strap 

Knapsacks 

Haversacks 


ACCOtJTREMENTS. 


<        (5 


$6  00 

4  50 

5  50 

2  57 

1  50 

2  57 

2  06 

2  05 

1  50 

2  23 

2  23 

2  23 

1  20 

1  20 

1  20 

5  66 

6  00 

5  00 

6  00 

50 

1  25 

...«. 

25 

6  60 

50 

By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


208 

GENERAL  ORDERS, }  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Qekkral's  OrncB, 

No.  159.  )  Richmond,  December  4, 1863. 

I*. Hospitals  for  prisoners  of  war  arc  placed  on  tbe  same  footing  as 
Other  Confederate  States  hospitals  in  all  respects,  and  will  bo  managed 
accordingly. 

II.. The  hospital  ration  is  fixed,  until  further  orders,  at  the  same 
rates  of  issues  now  made  to  soldiers  in  the  field.  If  a  greater  allow- 
ance is  required  of  any  particular  articles,  special  requisitions  must  be 
made  therefor. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"!  Adjdtant  ajtd  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  160.  j  Richmond,  December  7,  1863. 

I.  .The  following  scliodules  of  prices  for  articles  named  therein,  adopt- 
ed by  commissioners  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, are  announced  for  the  inforuiatiou  of  all  concerned,  and  the 
special  attention  of  officers  and  agents  of  the  government  is  directed 
thereto : 

II. .  Richmond,  December  4,  1863. 

Hon.  Ja».  A.  Seddon  ; 

Sir — In  revising  and  preparing  the  schedules  of  prices  for  Decem- 
ber and  January  we  requested  the  aid  of  Mr.  Wm.  B.  Harrison,  and  it 
is  proper  to  add  that  the  prices  agreed  upon  received  the  unanimous 
approval  of  the  commissioners.  We  respectfully  offer  the  accompany- 
ing schedules,  A  and  B,  with  the  understanding  that  the  prices  therein 
indicated  arc  to  remain  for  the  months  of  December  and  January, 
unless  in  the  interval  it  should  be  deemed  by  us  necessary  to  modify 
them. 

^The  following  schedules  present  the  maximum  prices  to  be  paid  for 
the  articles  appraised  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when 
impressed  elsewhere  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere,  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to  which  the 
article  would  go  ordinarilj'  for  sale  from  that  neighborhood,  or  less  the 
cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which  the  government  needs  the 
article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  ])rofided,  that  in  no  case  the  amount 
deducted  for  transportation  as  above,  shall  e.xceed  twenty-five  cents 
per  buHhcl  for  grain,  and  twonty-five  conts  per  cwt.  for  long  forag«, 


'^9 

flour,  bacon,  iron,  etc.  In  itddltion  to  tho  established  price  of  trans- 
portation, the  government  to  pay  rtll  legal  tolls;  Jind  where  farmcrg 
can  not  procure  nails  for  baling  forage,  goi'cruitlent  to  furnish  the 
same  at  cost,  which  will  be  deducted  frdiii  lllo  established  pride  of 
baling  : 

Schedule  A. 


ARTICLES. 


1  Wheat 

2  Flour 

Flour 

Flour  

Flour 

3  Corn 

4  Uusliellcd  corn... 
6  Corn  meal 

6  Rya 

7  Cleaned  oats 

8  Wheat  bran 

9  Shorts 

10  Brown  stuff 

11  Ship   stuff. 

12  Bacon 

13  Salt  pork  

Fresh  pork 

14  Lanl 

15  Horses 

16  Wool 

17  Wool 

18  Peas 

19  Beans 

20  Potatoes  

21  Pot.atoes  

22  Onions 

23  Dried  peaches 

24  Dried   ])caclio« 

2o  Dried  apples 

26  Hay,  baled 

27  llay,  baled 

28  Hay,  unbalcd 

29  Sheaf  oats,  baled 

30  Sheaf  oats,  unb'd 

31  Blade  f)clder,bard 

32  Blade foddr.nnh'd 

33  Sliiicks,  baled  

34  Shucks,  uiibaled.. 

35  Wheat  straw,  bid 

36  Wheat  sfw.  unb'd 

37  PnBturago 

38  Pasturage 

39  Pasturage 

40  Pasturage 

41  Pastunige 

42  Pa.sturago 

43  Salt 

44  Soap 

R 


Good  ... 
Prime . 


Fat  and 
good... 

Good 

l.st  class 
Fair,   or 

Merino. 
Fair,    or 

Merino, 
Good 


Superi'r, 
Ist  rate.. 
Ot)od  .... 
.Superi'r, 
1st  rate.. 
Good 


DESCRIPTION. 


White,  or  red 

Fine 

Supcrfliie 

Extra  superfine.. 

Family 

White,  or  yellow 
White,  or  yellow 


Hog  round.. 


Artillery,  etc.. 

Washed 

Unwashed 


Irish... 
Sweet  . 


Peeled 

Uiipeelcd 

Peeled 

Timothy,  or  clo- 
ver  

Orchard,  or  herd 
grass 

Orchard,  or  herd 
grass  


Interior 

Near  cities. 


QU.\NTITY. 


Per  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"    hbl.  of  196  lbs 

"    bbl.  of  196  lbs 

"    hbl.  of  196  lbs 

"    bbl.  of  196  lbs 

"    bus.  of  56  llis 

"    bus.  of  66  lbs 

"    bus.  of  ."iO  lbs 

"    bus.  of  56  lb.s 

•'    bus.  of  .32  lbs 

"    bus.  of  17  lb.s 

'•    bus.  of  22  lbs 

"    bus.  of  28  lbs 

"    bus.  of  37  lbs 

"    pound 

"    pound 

Per  lb.  net  weight 

"  pound 

Average  price  per  head 

Per  pound 

"  pound 

"  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"  bus.  of  60  lbs 

"  bus.  of  60  lbs 

«  bus.  of  38  lbs 

'•  bus.  of  38  lbs 

''  bus.  of  28  lbs 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds  ..„ 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  pounds 

"  100  jjounds 

*'  heail  per  month.... 

•'  head  per  month.... 

"  head  per  month.... 

"  head  per  month.... 

"  head  per  mouth... 

"  head  per  month.... 

"  bus.  of  50  lbs 

"  pound 


PRICE. 


$  5  00 

22  00 

25  00 

26  60 
28  00 

4  00 

3  05 

4  20 
3  20 

2  00 
50 
70 
90 

1  40 
1  25 
1  10 

80 

1  25 
350  00 

3  00 

2  00 

4  00 
4  00 

4  OU 
6  00 

5  00 
8  00 
4  50 

3  00 

3  50 
3  00 

3  00 

4  00 
3  60 
3  50 
3  00 

2  20 
1  70 
1  SO 
1  SO 

3  00 

4  00 

5  00 

6  00 
C  00 

7  00 
6  00 

40 


•ilO 


ScHKDULE  A — Continued. 


ARTICLES. 


DESCRIPTION. 


PRICE. 


45  Candles........ 

40  Vinegar 

47  Whiskey , 

48  Sugar 

49  Molasses  ....;. 

50  Rice 

51  Coffee., 

52  Tea 

53  Vinegar 

54  Pig  iron 

55  Pig  iron 

56  Pig  Iron 

57  Bloom  iron ... 

58  Smiths'  iron.. 


Good. 


69  Railroad  iron.. 
CO  Leather 

61  Leather 

62  Leather 

63  Beef  cattle 

64  Beef  cattle 

65  Beef  cattle.... 

66  Sheep 

67  Army  woolen  cl'h 

%yard. 

68  Army  woolen  cl'h 


Tallow 

Cider  

Trade 

Brown 

New  Orleans  . 


Rio 

Trade 

Manufactured. 
No.  1  quality... 
No.  2  quality.., 
No.  3  quality.., 


Round,plate,  and 
bar 


B9  Army  woolen  cl'h 

6-4  yard 

70  Army  woolen  cl'h 


Superi'r, 
1st  rate.. 
Fair 


Good. 


Harness 

Sole 

Upper 

Gross  weight... 
Gross  weight.. 


10  oz.  per  yard 
Pro    rata  as    to 
greater  or   less 
width  or  weight 


20  oz.  per  yard. 
Pro    rata   as   to 

greater   or  less 

width  or  weight 

71  Flannels ^i      "    6oz.peryard 

72  Cotton 8hirt'g...%      "    41^  yards  to  lb... 

73  Cotton  shirt'g...%      "    3J^  yards  to  lb... 

74  Cotton  sheet'g..4-4      "    3  yards  to  lb 

75  Cotton  osnab'gs|^      "    6  oz.  x)er  yard.... 

76  Cotton  osnab'gs%      "    8  oz.  per  yard.... 

77  Cotton  drills. ...%      "    3  yards  to  lb 

78  Cot.  shirt,  stripes      "    3  yards  to  lb 

79  Cot.  tent  cloths...      "    10  oz.  per  yard... 

On  tlio  above  enumerated  cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater  or 

or  weight. 


Per  pound., 
gallon  „ 
gallon . 
pound, 
gallon, 
pound . 
pound, 
pound . 
gallon . 

ton 

ton.... 
ton.... 
ton 


ton 

ton 

pound 

pound 

pound 

100  pounds.. 
100  pounds.. 
100  pounds- 
head 


yard.. 


yard.. 


yard,... 
yard..., 
yard... 
yard ... 

yard_.. 

yard..., 

yard.... 

jard.. 

yard.. 


^    2  00 

2  00 

3  00 

1  60 
10  00 

20 

3  00 

7  00 

50 

150  00 

132  00 

120  00 

216  00 

456  00 
190  00 

2  60 
2  40 
2  80 

16  00 
18  00 
20  00 
30  00 

5  00 


10  00 


4  00 
56 
84 
87 
75 


81  Cotton  warps 

82  Army  shoes 

83  Shoe"thread 

84  Wool  socks,  men's 

85  Mules 

86  Corn-top  fodder, 

baled 

87  Corn-top  fodder, 

unbaled 

88  Wheat  chafr,bal'd 

89  Wheat  chaff.unb'd 

90  Sorgliimi  molasses 

91  Pastu'ge  for  sheep 

92  Pastu'ge  for  sheep 

93  Pastu'ge  for  sheep 


Good. 


Good. 


Wagon,  etc.. 


"    I  Interior., 

Superi'r.  I  Interior, 
let  rate..  Interior. 


Per  pound 

"    pair 

"    pound 

"    pair 

Average  price  per  bead 

Per  100  pounds 


100  pounds., 
100  pounds.. 
100  pounds . 

gallon 

head 

liead 

head , 


ss 

1  12 

width 

2  00 

10  00 

2  00 

1  25 

300  00 

2  00 

1  50 

2  00 

1  50 

8  00 

40 

50 

60 

2ii 

In  assessing  the  average  value  of  "  first-class  artillery  and  wagon  horses 
at  $350,"  wc  designed  that  the  term  should  be  accepted  and  acted  upon 
according  to  its  obvious  common -sense  import.     In  other  words,  that 
horses  should   be  selected,  and  then   impressed  accordingly    as  their 
working  qualities  and  adaptation  to  army  service,  together  with  their 
^   intrinsic  value,  would  warrant    a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering 
T  them  as  coming  within  the  contemplation   of  the  commissioners  when 
they  assessed  the  average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  government  need- 
ed at  $350.     But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  exigen- 
cies would  be  so  urgent  as  to  demand  that  nil  horses  at  hand  should  bo 
impressed.     Yet,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  family  or  extra- 
blooded  horses,  or  brood  mares  oi  admitted  high  value,  are  impressed,  we 
t  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have  instructions  for- 
warded to    the  impressing  olRccrs  to  propose  and  allow  the  owners  to 
eubstittite  in  their  stead   such  strong,  sound,  and  serviceable  horses  or 
mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued,  by  competent  and  disinterest- 
ed parties,  as  first-class  artillery  horses,  or  first-rate  wagon  mules. 

The  term  "average  value  per  head"  was  used  incontra-distinction  to 
a  fixed  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We  supposed  that 
in  impressing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whether  owned  by  several 
persons,  or  one  individual,  that  some  might  be  estimated  at  $250,  or 
even  at  less,  and  others  at  different  advanced  rates,  according  to  their 
worth,  up  as  high  as  .$450,  or  above  that  amount— thus  making  an 
ai;eTO.7e  value  or  price  for  a  number  of  good,  sound,  and  efficient  horses 
$350  each,  and  mules  $300  each. 

In  illustration  of  our  views  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with  only  one  eye 
sound  might,  in  all  other  respects,  bo  classed  as  a  first-rate  artillery  horse, 
yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and  considerably  curtail  his  value. 
So,  a  horse  from  ten  to  eighteen  years  of  age  might  be  deemed,  in  all 
other  particuLars,  ns  a  first-class  artillery  horse,  but,  of  course,  however 
oflBcient  or  able  to  render  good  service  for  a  year  or  so,  yet  his  ad- 
vanced age  would  justly  and  materially  impair  his  value.  Any  horse, 
however  he  may  approximate  the  standard  of  a  first-class  artillery  horse, 
must,  according  to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum  price;  and  as 
few,  comparatively,  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  therefore  are 
entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so,  of  course,  in  all  other  instances  the 
price  should  bo  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfections  place  them 
below  the  standard  of  first-class,  etc. 


313 


SciTHDtTtiB  B — Hire  of  Labor,  Teamn,  Wagon»,  and  Drivers. 


1  Baling  long  forage 

2  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks  fur- 

nished by  the  government 

.3  Hauling  . .- 

4  Hauling  grain 

5  Hire  of  two-horse  team,  wagon,  and  driv- 

er, rations  furnished  by  owner 

6  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

7  Hire   of  four-horse    team,  wagon,   and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner. . . . 

8  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

9  Hire  of  six-horse  team,  wagon,  and  driv- 

er, rations  furnished  by  owner 

10  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

11  Hire    of  laborer,   rations   furnished   by 

owner 

12  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

13  Hire   of    same,    rations    and    clothing 

furnished  by  owner 

14  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government 

15  Hire  of  teamsters,  rations  furnished  by 

government 

16  Hire   of  laborer,  clothing   and   rations 

furnished  by  government 

17  Hire  of  same,  clothing  and  rations  fur- 

nished by  owner 

18  Hire  of  same,  rations  only  furnished  by 

government 


QUANTITY  AND  TIME. 


Per  100  pounds  .. 

"  66  pounds  .. 
"  cwt.  per  mile. 
"    bus.  per  mile. 


daj  . . . 
day  . . . 
day  . . . 
day  . . . 
day  . . . 
day  . . . 
day  . . . 
day  . . . 
month, 
month, 
month. 


year  . 
year  . 
year  . 


$  0  50 

05 
08 
04 

10  00 

5  00 
13  00 

6  50 
16  00 

8  00 

2  50 

1  50 

50  00 

30  00 

40  00 

300  00 

550  00 

400  00 


Upon  further  consideration,  we  have  concluded  to  value  sheaf  oats, 
hay,  and  blade  fodder,  east  of  the  Blite  Itidr/a  mountains,  when  baled, 
at  $5  per  hundred  pounds,  and  unbaled  at  $4  50  per  hundred  pounds. 

E.    W.    HUBARD, 
ROBEUT    GiBBONEY, 

Wjf.  B.  Harrison, 
Commissioners  for  Virginia. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inapector-Ge.ieral. 


6KNEKAL  ORDERS.")  Adjctant  and  Inspector-General's  Ofpior, 

No.  161.  J  Richmond.  Decfinhcr  10r^63. 

The  following  Order  is  published  as  an  amendment  of  the  regula- 
tions in  respect  to  impressments,  as  a  substitute  for  paragraph  II, 
section  5,  General  Orders,  No.  37,  current  series.  All  officers  and 
agents  who  have  been  or  shall  be  empowered  to  make  impressments, 
shall  conform  to  the  pro\  isions  of  this  Order,  in  respect  to  impress- 
ments hereafter  to  be  made,  and  also  in  cases  where  the  property  may 
have  been  heretofofo  taken,  and  the  price  has  not  been  fully  adjusted  : 

In  the  event  of  the  refusal  by  the  owner,  his  bailee,  or  other  agent, 
of  the  price  offered,  the  impressing  officer  shall  ])rocced  to  settle  the 
compensation  to  bo  paid,  according  to  the  first  section  of  the  act  of 
March  26,  1863,  if  the  property  impressed  belongs  to  an  owner  who 
has  grown,  raised,  or  produced  the  same,  or  who  holds  or  has  purchased 
the  same  for  his  own  use  or  consumption.  But  if  the  property  im- 
pressed has  not  been  grown,  raised,  or  produced  by  the  owner,  nor  been 
purchased  for  his  own  use  or  consumption,  it  shall  bo  the  duty  of  the 
impressing  officer  to  ofl'er  the  price  fixed  by  the  commissioners,  who 
may  bo  appointed  under  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  the 
26th  March,  1863,  to  regulate  impressments;  and  if  the  owner  shall 
object  to  receive  the  said  price,  as  not  being  a  just  compensation,  it 
shall  bo  the  duty  of  the  impressing  ofTioer  to  cause  the  value  to  be 
ascertained  by  the  appointment  of  a  board  similar  to  that  designated  in 
the  first  section  of  the  act  aforesaid — that  is,  by  the  judgment  of  two 
loyal  and  disinterested  citizens  of  the  county  or  parish  in  which  such 
impressments  may  be  made — one  to  be  selected  by  the  owner,  and  one 
by  the  impressing  officer — and,  in  the  event  of  their  disagreement,  these 
two  shall  choose  an  umpire  of  like  qualification.  The  persons  thus 
selected  shall  proceed  to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so 
impressed,  whether  the  absolute  ownership  or  the  temporary  use  thereof 
only  is  required:  provided,  however,  if  the  impressing  officer  in  any  of 
the  cases  mentioned  shall  believe  that  the  appraisement  is  fair  or  just, 
he  shall  endorse  upon  it  his  approval,  and  the  property  in  the  object 
impressed  shall  thereupon  be  vested  in  the  Confederate  States;  but  if 
he  does  not  approve  the  appraisement  as  aforesaid,  ho  shall  endorse 
upon  the  appraisement  his  objection  thereto,  and  deliver  the  same,  with 
a  receipt  for  the  property  impressed,  to  the  owner,  his  bailee,  agent,  or 
attorney,  and  as  soon  as  practicable  forward  a  copy  of  the  receipt  and 
appraisement,  and  his  endorsement  thereon,  to  the  board  of  appraisers 
appointed  by  the  President  and  governor  of  the  state,  who  shall  revise 
the  same,  and  make  a  final  valuation,  so  as  to  give  just  compensation  for 
the  property  taken — which  valuation  .-(hall  be  paid  by  the  proper  de- 


partment  for  the  use  of  which  the  property  was  taken,  on  the  certifi- 
cate t$  the  appraisers,  as  provided  in  the  acts  of  Congress  on  the 
subject. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"*  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  162.  r  Richmond,  December  11,  1863. 

I.  .Quartermasters  at  posts  will  afford  all  the  accommodation  in  their 
power  to  persons  in  charge  of  stock,  travelling  under  the  orders  of 
officers  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  A.  H.  Colo's  department.  Forage  and 
shelter  for  the  animals  and  subsistence  for  the  men  will  be  furnished  by 
them  upon  the  requisition  of  any  officer,  or  of  his  authorized  agent,  of 
Colonel  Cole's  department,  who  will  receipt  for  the  same. 

II.. To  prevent  claims  for  commutation  of  rations  which  may  have 
been  previously  drawn,  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals  will  endorse  on 
the  furlough  of  enlisted  men  who  leave  a  hospital  on  furlough,  a  state- 
ment of  the  number  of  days  and  the  dates  ho  has  drawn  rations  for  the 
enlisted  men. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  163.  )  Richmond,  December  23, 1863. 


The  attention  of  officers  of  the  army  is  again  directed  to  paragraph 
VII,  General  Orders,  No.  28,  requiring  that  in  all  recommendations  for 
military  appointments,  the  name  of  the  state  be  giv*n  of  which  the 
person  is  a  citizen.  No  applications  will  hereafter  receive  attention  in 
which  this  rule  is  not  observed. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  AdjuVaxt  and  Inspector-Obneral's  Office, 

No.  164.  I  Richmond,  December  20.  1863. 

I.. Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  159,  current  series,  is  amended 
as  follows : 

II.. The  hospital  ration   is  fixed,  until  further  orders,  at  the  same 
rates  of  issues  now  made  to  soldiers  in  the  field.     If  a  greater  allow- 
ance is  required  of  any  particular  article,  not  issued  to  troops  in  the 
field,  special  requisitions  must  be  made  therefor. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inajyector-G eneral. 


INSTEUCTIONS  TO  ORDNANCE  OFFICERS  IN 

THE  FIELD. 

[No.  1.] 

The  appointment  of  brigade  ordnance  officers  having  been  author- 
ized, the  following  instructions  are  substituted  for  those  of  May  20, 
1862 : 

1st.  The  chief  of  ordnance  of  an  army  corps,  and  ordnance  oflScers 
of  separate  commands,  will  correspond  with  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Ordnance  relative  to  supplies  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  with 
the  commands  to  which  they  arc  attached.  Requisitions  made,  wheth- 
er for  money  or  stores,  will  be  approved  by  the  general  commanding. 

2d.  The  division  ordnance  officers  will  correspond  with  the  chief  of 
ordnance  of  the  army  corps  to  which  the  divisions  are  attached,  and  ob- 
tain supplies  through  him.  They  will  be  responsible  for  the  property 
under  their  charge,  and  make  weekly  reports  of  ammunition  on  hand 
(consolidated  from  brigade  reports)  to  this  oflBce. 

3d.  Brigade  ordnance  officers  will,  with  the  .ipproval  of  the  division 
ordnance  officer,  obtain  one  or  more  wagons  for  each  regiment  in  their 
brigade,  as  ordnance  wagons.  These  wagons  will  be  separate  from  the 
train  of  wagons   for  reserve  ammunition  of  the  division,  and  will  be 


marked  with  the  name  of  the  regiment  to  which  they  are  assigned,  and 
will  be  placed  in  charge  of  the  ordnance  sergeant  of  the  regiment.  The 
wagons  will  be  covered,  if  possible,  with  painted  cloth  covers,  for  securi- 
ty against  the  weather,  and  each  wagon  will  be  supplied  with  a  spare 
tarpaulin.  These  wagons  will  habitually  follow  their  respective  regi- 
ments. 

4th.  On  the  eve  of  battle  the  division  ordnance  officer  will,  under 
direction  of  the  chief  of  ordnance  of  the  army,  station  the  ordnance 
wagons  at  the  point  selected  for  the  division  field  depot  of  ammunition, 
under  charge  of  the  senior  ordnance  officer  of  brigades.  He  will  keep 
himself  acquainted  with  the  movements  of  brigades,  and  cause  the  wag- 
ons of  any  brigade  which  may  be  detached  to  follow  the  movemeuts  of 
the  brigade.  Brigade  ordnance  officers  will  make  weekly  reports  of  am- 
munition on  hand  to  the  division  ordnance  officers. 

5th.  The  ordnance  sergeants,  together  with  the  details  habitually 
assigned  to  them  from  their  regiments,  will,  under  the  direction  of  the 
brigade  ordnance  oflicers,  constitute  a  corps  devoted  as  well  to  the  pres- 
ervation of  the  captured  and  other  ordnance  stores,  as  to  the  supplies  of 
ammunition  of  the  various  regiments.  One  man  of  each  detail  should 
follow  the  movements  of  the  regiment,  to  ascertain  its  wants,  and  com- 
municate with  the  field  depot.  The  habitual  details  from  each  regiment 
should  be  augmented  before  a  battle  to  not  less  than  six  men  from  each. 
The  ammunition  wagons,  their  loads  temporarily  removed,  will,  as  cir- 
cumstances favor,  be  employed  to  carry  to  the  rear  such  arms  and  other 
captured  stores  as  are  left  upon  the  battle-field. 

6th.  Especial  care  must  be  taken  in  selecting  competent,  prompt,  and 
efficient  men  for  the  duties  of  ordnance  sergeants.  They  may  be  re- 
moved for  cause,  and  new  appointments  ordered,  on  the  application  of 
the  division  ordnance  officers,  through  the  chief  of  ordnance  of  the 
army  corps,  by  the  commanding  general. 

7th.  The  ammunition  wagons  to  each  regiment  will  not  supersede  the 
necessity  for  division  supply  trains. 


Duties  of  Ordnance  Sergeants. 

1st.  To  obev  the  directions  of  the  division  ordnance  oflicer,  received 
through  the  brigade  ordnance  officer,  or  of  the  brigade  ordnance  officer 
(if  the  brigade  is  a  separate  command),  in  all  relative  to  care  and  preser- 
vation of  arms,  and  duties  connected  therewith. 


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2d.  To  take  charge  of  all  supplies,  arms,  and  ammunition  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  make  returns  of  the  same,  according  to  "  Ordnance  Regula- 
tions." 

Issues  to  be  made  on  written  requisitions  approved  by  the  colonel, 
or  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment;  which  requisitions  are  to  b« 
filed  with  his  "  Return  of  Property." 

3d.  To  take  charge  of  the  ordnance  wagon  or  wagons  attached  to 
each  regiment,  and  to  see  that  it  always  contains  at  least  fifteen  rounds 
per  man  of  the  regiment ;  surplus  arms  or  accoutrements  to  be  turned 
over  to  the  brigade  or  division  ordnance  officer. 

4th.  To  supervise  the  condition  of  the  arms  of  the  regiment,  and  get 
a  detail  of  at  least  two  mechanics  to  assist  him  in  the  necessary  repairs 
to  the  arms — an  account  of  these  repairs  to  be  kept,  as  far  as  possible, 
against  each  man  of  the  regiment.  Repairs  to  be  made  on  the  order  of 
the  colonel  of  the  regiment. 

5tb.  To  take  charge  of  the  arms  and  accoutrements  of  the  sick  of  the 
regiment  in  hospitals,  which  will  be  kept  until  the  sick  are  sent  to  the 
general  hospital,  when  their  arms  will  bo  turned  over  to  the  division 
depots,  through  the  brigade  ordnance  officer. 

6th.  In  battle  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  ordnance  sergeants  to  re- 
main with  the  ammunition  wagons,  and  act  with  the  details  assigned  to 
them  from  the  regiments,  under  the  orders  of  the  ordnance  officer,  in 
supplying  the  troops  with  ammunition,  collecting  arms  of  the  killed 
and  wounded,  and  securing  captured  arms  and  ammunition. 

J.  GORGAS, 
Colonel,   Ghitf  of  Ordnance. 
Approved: 

G.  W.  RANDOLPH, 

Secretary  of   War. 


[No.  2.] 
Relative  to  returns  of  Ordnance  Stores. 

I.. Returns  for  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  issued  to  troops  will  be 
made  quarterly,  on  the  Slst  March,  .30th  June,  30th  September,  and 
31st  Decumber,  according  to  Form  I,  "  Ordnance  Regulations,"  as  fol- 
lows : 

s 


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II.. For  all  ordnance  stores  —  such  as  arms,  accoutrements,  equip- 
ments, and  ammunition  in  the  hands  of  a  regiment  or  battalion,  includ- 
in"'  the  supplies  carried  in  the  ordnance  wagon  of  the  regiment  —  by 
the  colonel  of  the  regiment,  assisted  by  his  ordnance  sergeant. 

III.. For  all  ordnance  stores — such  as  artillery  harness,  equipments, 
accoutrements,  and  ammunition  in  the  possession  of  field  batteries — by 
the  captains  of  batteries. 

IV.  .For  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  at  posts  or  g.arrisons — by  the 
commanding  officer,  assisted  by  his  ordnance  sergeant. 

v..  For  ordnance  stores  in  the  division  and  army  trains  —  by  the 
division  ordnance  officer,  and  by  the  assistant  to  the  Oliief  of  ordnance 
of  the  army. 

VI.  .Invoices  to  shov?  what  has  been  received,  and  receipts  for  issues, 
must  accompany  the  "  Returns,"  and  the  line  of  "  Expenditures  "  must 
mention  the  actions  or  practice  causing  the  expenditure;  and  where 
ammunition  or  stores  are  lost,  proper  evidence  and  explanation  must 
be  furnished,  attached  to  the  return. 

VII.. In  many  cases  captains  of  infantry  companies  have  given  re- 
ceipts for  their  arms  and  equipments.  In  such  cases  the  colonel  of  the 
regiment  to  which  the  company  belongs  should  give  a  receipt  for  the 
property  in  the  possession  of  the  company  commander  at  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  regiment,  making  the  necessary  expenditures  for  property 
lost,  worn  out,  and  expended,  on  the  regimental  returns.  Where  prop- 
erty has  been  furnished  by  a  state,  or  by  the  company  themselves,  it 
will  be  accounted  for  on  a  separate  return  by  the  company  commander^ 
a  remark  to  that  effect  being  made  in  the  regimental  return. 

VIII.. Wherever  there  are  field  depots,  with  workmen  attached,  the 
usual  monthly  summary  statement  of  work  done  should  be  transmitted. 
(See  Form  29,  "  Ordnance  Regulations.") 

J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
Approved  :  for  Department  S.  C,  Ga.,  and  Fla. 
By  command  of  General  Beauregard. 

THOMAS  JORDAN, 
^M^H«n,  1862.  Chief  of  Staff. 


2\9 

[No.  3.] 

rOISTS  CONHECTEI)  WITH  AMMUNITION,  TO  WniCH  THE  ATTENTION  OT 
ORDNANCE  OFFICERS    IS  CALLED. 

It  being  very  desirable  that  the  Laboratory  department  of  the  Ord- 
nance service  should  obtain  all  the  advantage  to  be  derived  from  in- 
telligent co-operation  of  ordnance  officers  in  the  field,  it  is  desired  to 
direct  the  attention  of  these  officers  to'the  following,  as  some  of  the 
more  important  matters  in  regard  to  laboratory  products — to  ammuni- 
tion— which  come  within  the  scope  of  their  duties : 

/. .  General  Attention  to  be  given  to  Ammunition  in  the  Field. 

1.  Economy  should  be  carefully  studied  in  the  distribution  and  uso 
of  ammunition,  and  instances  of  waste  or  neglect  of  proper  care  should 
bo  noticed  and  reported  to  the  proper  authorities. 

2.  Care  should  be  taken  that  all  ammunition  in  good  condition — not 
already  in  charge  of  some  authorized  person — as,  for  instance,  the  car- 
tridges of  men  on  either  side  killed  or  disabled  in  action,  and  all  ammu- 
nition abandoned  by  or  taken  from  the  enemy — is  collected  and  saved. 
If  fully  fit  for  service,  and  adapted  to  the  arms  of  the  command  to 
which  the  ordnance  otlicer  collecting  it  is  attached,  it  should  be  at  once 
distributed  for  service — a  report  being  made,  through  the  proper  chan- 
nel, of  the  kinds  and  quantities  of  ammunition  so  collected  and  dis- 
tributed. 

.3.  All  damaged  and  unserviceable  ammunition — whether  collected 
from  the  battle-field,  found  among  captured  stores  of  the  enemy,  or 
withdrawn  from  troops  in  whose  hands  it  had  been  placed  for  service — 
— should  bo  carefully  preserved,  and  reported  to  the  chief  of  ordnance 
in  the  field,  for  removal  to  the  most  convenient  arsenal  or  ordnance  de- 
pot, so  that  it  may  be  re -made  or  broken  up,  and  its  materials  used. 
Powder  and  lead  especially — no  matter  in  how  bad  condition — should 
thus  be  saved  and  made  available.  In  collecting  and  transporting  dam- 
aged artillery  ammunition,  the  condition  of  the  fuses — particularly 
concussion  fuses — should  be  looked  to  with  a  view  to  the  prevention  of 
accidents. 

4.  Any  new  or  remarkable  projectiles  found  upon  battle-fields  should 
be  preserved  apart,  and  forwarded  to  the  Ordnance  bureau,  Richmond, 
with  such  remarks  as  may  be  needed  to  explain  the  circumstances  un- 
der which  they  were  found. 

5.  When  ammunition,  damaged  in  transportation,  is  received  by  any 
ordnance  officer  for  distribution,  he  should  at  once  report  the  fact  to 
his  immediate  superior  in  the  ordnance  service,  with  a  statement  of  the 
exact  nature  and  extent  of  the  injury  sustained,  and,  if  possible,  a  sam- 


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pie  of  the  ammunition  itself,  so  that  responsibility  for  the  damage  may 
be  speedily  and  properly  ascertained,  by  tracing  up  the  history  of  the 
ammunition. 

6.  When  ammunition,  defective  in  manufacture,  is  received  by  an 
ordnance  oflicer,  or  is  found  by  him  in  the  hands  of  troops  of  the  com- 
mand to  which  he  is  attached,  he  should  at  once  forward  a  complaint 
of  the  same  to  his  immediate  superior  in  ordnance  service,  in  order  that 
such  complaint  may  be  transmitted,  through  the  regular  channel,  to 
the  Ordnance  bureau  at  Richmond.  Such  complaints  should  be  definite 
&ni  distinct.  Complaints  of  "defective  ammunition,"  "unserviceable 
ammunition,"  etc.,  unaccompanied  by  proper  specifications  of  the  de- 
fects complained  of,  have  heretofore  too  frequently  been  made.  Sam- 
ples of  the  ammunition  in  question  should  also,  if  possible,  be  for- 
warded. 

7.  In  order  to  fix  responsibility  properly  upon  the  arsenals  and  de- 
pots from  which  ordnance  stores  are  sent  out,  it  is  required  that  all 

.packing  boxes — whether  they  contain  artillery  or  small  arms  ammuni- 
tion— shall  be  distinctly  marked  with  the  name  of  the  arsenal  or  depot, 
the  nature  of  the  contents,  and  the  date  of  fabrication.  The  same  rule 
applies  to  bundles  of  (10)  small  arms  cartridges — upon  which,  more- 
over, the  calibre  of  the  arm  for  which  the  cartridges  are  intended  is  to 
be  marked.  In  forwarding  complaints  of  defective  ammunition,  these 
marks  upon  the  boxes  or  bundles  should  be  copied,  and  transmitted 
with  the  complaint- 

In  case  any  ammunition  is  received  which  has  not  been  marked  in 
accordance  with  the  above  rules,  this  should  of  itself  form  the  ground 
of  a  complaint,  to  be  at  once  forwarded,  through  the  regular  channels, 
the  various  steps  in  the  transmission  of  the  ammunition  being  stated, 
80  that  its  history  may  bo  traced  up  to  its  issue  from  the  arsenal  of 
manufacture. 

lit  .Special  Points  to  he  noticed  with  regard  to   Artillery  Ammunition. 

1.  Artillery  cartridges  should  be  examined  from  time  to  time  after 
they  have  been  issued  for  service,  in  order  to  see  that  they  are  firm  and 
compacts — that  they  have  not  been  crushed,  frayed,  or  broken  in  trans- 
portation, and  that  no  powder  sifts  out  from  them. 

2.  The  ammunition  chests  of  limbers  and  caissons  should  be  inspect- 
ed from  time  to  time,  to  see  that  they  arc  properly  packed,  and  are  well 
swept  out,  so  that  no  loose  powder  or  powder  dust  remains  in  them. 

3.  The  bottoms  of  ammunition  chests  should  be  examined  after  the 
passage  of  a  ford  or  very  deep  mud.  There  is  often  more  danger  of 
moisture  reaching  the  ammunition  from  the  bottom  of  the  chests  when 
thai  exposed,  than  from  the  tops  or  sides  in  even  heavy  rain. 


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i.  Due  attention  ahoulJ  be  given  to  "  sunning  "  aiuiuunition  in  favora- 
ble weather. 

5.  Any  cases  of  cannon  powder  affording  very  irregular  ranges, 
should  be  noticed  and  reported,  stating  the  source  or  sources  from 
which  the  cartridges  containing  such  powder  were  issued.  Opportuni- 
nity  and  time  may  sometimes  bo  found  in  the  field  for  remedying  this 
grave  defect  to  some  extent,  by  opening  the  cartridge  bags,  emptying 
out  all  the  powder  of  uncertain  strength  upon  a  dry  surface  of  paper  or 
tarpauliu,  at  a  safe  distance  from  any  fire,  mixing  the  powder  uniform- 
ly with  a  clean  piece  of  wood,  and  again  weighing  out  the  charges,  and 
filling  the  cartridge  bags. 

6.  The  causes  of  any  alleged  defects  in  friction-primers  should  be  ex- 
amined. It  should  be  seen  that  the  wires  are  sufficiently  strong  to  bear 
ordinarily  careful  use.  The  men  should  be  taught  to  bend  the  wire 
gently  in  bringing  the  loop  to  its  position  at  right  angles  with  the  tube, 
and  in  firing  to  pull  the  lanyard  steadily,  and  without  jerk,  and  in  the 
proper  direction.  Neglect  of  these  common  precautions  has  led  to 
complaints  of  friction- primers  of  excellent  quality.  Any  cases  of  guns 
being  spiked  or  rendered  useless  by  friction-primers,  should  be  carefully 
examined  and  reported  upon — it  being  ascertained  precisely  what  acci- 
dent has  occurred,  splitting  of  the  tube,  melting  of  the  lower  end  of  the 
same,  etc. 

Any  shells  or  spherical  case  shot,  the  fuse-plugs  of  which  are  not 
tightly  screwed  in,  should  be  at  once  reported.  This  defect  has  been  a 
fruitful  source  of  failurif  and  of  danger  in  the  use  of  such  projectiles, 
which  are  liable  lo  burst  close  to  the  muzzle  of  the  gun.  It  may  some- 
times be  remedied  in  the  field,  by  carefully  unscrewing  the  fuse-plugs 
with  a  proper  brass  fuse-plug  wrench  {never  with  any  other  tool),  smear- 
ing the  threads  of  the  screw  with  a  little  thick  white  lead  paint,  and 
screwing  up  firmly  again. 

8.  When  the  Bormann  fuse  is  used,  particular  attention  should  be 
paid  to  the  instruction  of  the  men  in  the  proper  mode  of  cutting  the 
leaden  cover,  and  of  reading  the  figures  upon  the  same.  Want  of  prop- 
er acquaintance  with  its  use  has  caused  some  unjust  charges  to  be 
brought  against  the  design  of  this  superior  fuse,  or  against  the  mode 
of  its  manufacture. 

9.  When  paper  or  wooden  fuses  are  used,  it  should  bo  seen  that  they 
have  not  been  cracked  or  crushed  by  any  negligence  in  transportation  ; 
that  they  have  not  been  injured  by  moisture ;  and  that  the  time  of 
burning  is  distinctly  marked  in  figures  upon  each  fuse  (as  required  by 
rule  at  all  laboratory  establishments). 

10.  Any  favorable  opportunity  should  be  taken  advantage  of  to  verify 
the  rate  of  burning  of  time-fuses.     Reports  to  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance 


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upon  this  subject,  specifying  the  arsenal  or  depot  from  which  the  fuses 
were  issued,  will  be  valuable. 

11.  Accurate  reports  of  the  performance  of  concussion  fuses  should, 
in  like  manner,  be  made  as  opportunity  for  observation  may  serve.  The 
pattern  of  fuse  employed,  the  nature  and  angle  of  inclination  of  the 
surface  fired  at,  and  the  number  of  projectiles  exploding  and  failing  to 
explode,  should  be  specified. 

///.  .Special  Points  to  be  noticed  loith  regard  to  Small  Arms  Ammunition. 

1.  Small  arms  cartridges  deteriorate  rapidly,  if  roughly  shaken  about 
in  ill-packed  and  dirty  cartridge-boxes.  The  men  should  be  instructed 
to  brush  out  loose  powder  or  powder  dust  from  their  cartridge-boxes, 
and  to  wipe  away  any  adherent  grease,  to  keep  them  closely  packed — 
using  a  crumpled  piece  of  paper  or  similar  material  to  fill  the  space  from 
which  cartridges  may  have  been  removed,  and  to  avoid  exposing  the 
cartridge-boxes  to  any  unnecessary  rough  treatment. 

2.  Needless  as  it  may  appear  to  say  that  cartridges  should  be  guard- 
ed with  all  care  from  exposure  to  wet,  large  quantities  of  ammunition 
have,  during  the  present  war,  been  rendered  unserviceable  by  neglect 
of  proper  care  of  this  kind,  and  heavy  requisitions  for  new  ammunition 
have,  in  consequence,  been  rendered  necessary.  Not  only  should  car- 
tridges in  packing  boxes  be  sedulously  guarded  from  rain,  and,  as  far 
as  possible,  from  a  damp  atmosphere,  but  the  men  should  be  taught  to 
avail  themselves  of  every  possible  means  of  preserving  from  moisture 
their  cartridge-boxes  and  the  contents.  Reports  as  to  causes  of  waste 
of  ammunition  should  be  made  constantly  to  the  Ordnance  bureau  at 
■Richmond. 

3.  The  practice  of  "sunning"  small  arms  cartridges  in  favorable 
weather,  should  not  be  neglected. 

4.  Efforts  should  be  made  to  teach  the  men  to  load  their  muskets — 
especially  the  improved  rifled  arms— carefully  aud  properly.  The  car- 
tridge should  be  broken  at  the  right  place,  so  as  admit  of  pouring  the 
powder  from  it  without  loss.  The  powder  should  be  poured  cleanly  into 
the  barrel,  so  that  as  little  as  possible  shall  remain  as  scattered  grains 
adherent  to  the  muzzle  and  upper  part  of  the  barrel.  The  bullet  should 
be  fairly  entered  with  the  fingers,  its  axis  coincident  with  that  of  the 
barrel.  It  should  be  steadily  rammed  down,  using  as  little  force  as 
will  sufiice.  A  light  tap  of  the  ramrod  will  then  settle  it  with  sufiBcient 
firmness  in  its  place.  Proper  attention  to  these  details  will  greatly 
diminish  the  risk  of  the  musket  becoming  badly  fouled. 

5.  The  unavoidable  use,  at  present,  by  our  troops,  of  several  patterns 
of  small  arms  diff'ering  in  calibre,  renders  it  imperatively  necessary  that 
the  utmost  care  should  be  taken  in  the  distribution  of  ammunition,  to 
avoid  confusion,  and  to  insure  each  man  being  furnished  with  cartridges 


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that  will  fit  the  musket  in  his  hands.  The  men  themselves  should  be 
instructed  in  the  calibres  of  their  respective  arms,  as  expressed  in  the 
usual  waj  in  decimal  parts  of  an  inch,  so  that  they  may  individually 
be  prepared  to  recognize  the  cartridges  issued  to  them  as  fit  or  unfit 
for  the  guns  they  use. 

6.  But  too  many  instances  have  been  reported  of  men  in  the  heat  of 
action  finding  their  muskets  useless,  from  the  impossibility  of  forcing 
down  the  bullets.  Such  instances  can  not  be  too  deeply  deplored,  or 
their  recurrence  too  carefully  guarded  against.  The  difficulty  is,  in 
general,  due  to  one  or  more  of  four  causes,  namely  : 

1st.  The  bullet  being  original^'  too  large  in  diameter  for  the  calibre  of 
the  musket  it  is  to  be  used  with. 

2d.  The  cartridges  having  become  coated  with  a  cake  of  mixed  pow- 
der and  grease,  owing  to  loose  and  careless  manufacture  or  rough 
transportation,  or  both,  so  that  excessive  fouling  of  the  gun  takes  place 
after  a  number  of  rounds  have  been  fired. 

This  fouling  may  bo  greatly  increased  by  careless  loading. 
3d.  Defective  lubrication,  causiag  rapid  "  leading  "  of  the  grooves  of 
the  rifled  musket. 

4th.  The  cup-shaped  cavity  in  the  base  of  the  bullet  being  too  deep, 
rendering  the  lead  on  the  edges  of  the  cup  too  thin,  so  that  the  solid 
portion  of  thc^buUcFmay  be  blown  away  on  discharge  of  the  piece,  leav- 
ing a  ring  of  lead  adherent  to  the  interior  of  the  barrel,  and  thus  "lead- 
ing" it  so  that  another  bullet  can  not  be  forced  down. 

Care  should  be  taken,  in  receiving  new  supplies  of  ammunition,  by 
examining  sample  cartridges  taken  out  at  random,  to  detect  in  time 
any  of  these  defects  in  manufacture  which  may  lead  to  such  fatal  re- 
sults. Especially  should  the  normal  size  of  the  bullets  be  verified.  An 
observant  oflicer,  though  unprovided  with  gauges,  will  soon, learn  to 
recognize,  by  touch  and  sight,  the  proper  degree  of  looseness  with  which 
a  bullet  of  proper  size  should  enter  the  muzzle  of  the  muskct/or  which 
it  is  intended.  , 

The  English  pattern  of  Enfield  cartridge  is  intended  for  loading  with 
the  paper  upon  the  bullet.  Such  cartridges  should  themselves  enter  the 
barrel  of  the  musket  as  easily  as^thenaked  bullct^^of  other  patternt. 

Any  defect  in  bullets  or  cartridges  of  the  above  kind  ought,  immedi- 
ately, on  detection,  to  be  reported,  samples  being  forwarded  of  the  am- 
munition complained  of.  If  a  musket  be  rendered  useless  by  the  "jam- 
ming "  of  a  bullet  so  as  to  prevent  further  loading,  opportunity  should, 
if  possible,  be  taken  to  examine  the  condition  of  the  interior  of  the  bar- 
rel, looking  for  "  leading,"  especially  in  rings,  or  upon  any  particular 
part  of  the  surface  of  the  barrel. 

7.  For  the  avoidance  of  danger >f  tho'kind>lluded  to  in  the^last 
paragraph,  as  also  for  securing  accuracy  of  fire  withjjgood  ammunition. 


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much  will  depend  upon  the  condition  in  which  the  men  habitually  keep 
their  arms.  Rust,  dirt,  and  dust  ought  to  be  carefully  guarded  against 
in  the  interior  of  the  barrel. 

8.  It  should  be  noticed  at  inspections  whether  the  cartridges  are 
becoming  spoiled  by  sifting  out  of  the  powder,  and  if  so,  whether  the 
defect  is  due  to  their  being  loosely  and  carelessly  made,  or  to  rough 
usage  in  transportation. 

9.  It  should  also  be  observed  whether  there  are  any  defects  due  to 
the  wax  and  tallow  used  for  lubrication  ;  if  the  lubricant  is  cracking  or 
peeling  off;  or  if  it  is  melting  and  spreading,  so  as  to  mix  with  and  cake 
the  powder,  to  soften  the  paper,  and  make  it  tear  easily,  or  to  leave  the 
lead  uncoated. 

10.*  Percussion  caps  should  be  examined  from  time  to  time,  particu- 
larly with  reference  to  the  condition  of  their  varnish — a  defect  in  which 
is  the  most  frequent  cause  of  failure  to  explode. 

"Sunning"  or  other  careful  drying  should  be  had  recourse  to,  as 
occasion  may  serve. 

11.  There  has  been  great  waste  of  percussion  caps  and  friction  prim- 
ers, especially  of  the  former.  This  should  be  checked,  and  the  proper 
expenditure  of  caps,  in  proportion  to  cartridges,  be  controlled. 

It  may  appear  that  some  of  the  above  points  are  either  trivial  and 
unimportant  matters  of  detail,  or  so  obvious  as  not  to  demand  remark. 
It  is  believed,  however,  that  all  of  them  have  been,  in  one  part  of  the 
army  or  another,  from  time  to  time,  neglected ;  and  scarcely  any  detail 
of  the  kind  can  be  unimportant,  when  it  applies  to  the  components  of 
ammunition,  multiplied  as  they  are  by  tens  or  hundreds  of  thousands, 
and  effects  even  remotely  the  efficiency  of  this  ammunition  in  the  day 
of  battle. 

Repeated  allusions  have  been  made  to  the  desirability  of  instructing 
the  soldiers  themselves  with  regard  to  thecaroand  use  of  their  ammuni- 
tion. This  instruction,  it  may  be  said,  should  come  from  their  regimental 
and  company  officers,  but  much  may  be  done  by  field  ordnance  officers 
in  originating  or  suggesting  such  instruction,  and  helping  to  give  it 
proper  direction. 

Lastly.  It  is  very  much  to  be  desired  that  responsibility  for  defective 
ammunition  should  be  promptly  fixed  upon  the  proper  parties ;  and  this 
may  be  accomplished  by  accurate  and  faithful  reports,  as  above  sug- 
gested, from  ordnance  officers  on  duty  in  the  field. 

The  foregoing  instructions,  carefully  prepared  by  Capt.  J.  W.  Mallet, 
Superintendent  Confederate  States  Laboratories,  will  be  studied  by  ord- 
nance officers,  and  the  details  conformed  to,  whenever  possible. 

J.  GORGAS, 

Richmond,  Va.,  March  2,  1863.  Colonel,  Chief  ef  Ordnanc*. 


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C  I  Jl  C  U  L  A  K . 

ADJDTAKT  Am)  ISSPSCTgB-GEMRAl'S  OrFiri!, 

Richmond,  June  2*2,  1863. 

By  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  the  following  circular  is  ad- 
dressed to  army  and  department  commanders  for  their  guidance  : 

I.. The  practice  of  issuing,  on  the  eve  of  an  expected  engagement, 
twenty  rounds  of  ammunition  to  infantry,  over  and  above  the  capacity 
of  the  cartridge-boxes,  will  be  discontinued,  except  on  the  special 
order  of  the  general  commanding  an  army  or  department. 

II.. Issues  of  cartridges,  except  to  cover  expenditure  in  battle,  will 
be  limited  to  three  cartridges  per  man,  per  month,  for  the  whole  effec- 
tive strength  of  any  army,  or  of  the  forces  serving  in  .any  department. 
Supplies  to  cover  expenditures  in  battle  will  be  furnished  on  separate 
requisitions,  specifying  the  battle  in  which  the  ammunition  to  be  re- 
placed was  consumed. 

III.. The  Chief  of  Bureau  of  Ordnance  will  give  instructions  to  the 
several  arsenals  charged  with  supplies  of  troops,  under  the  circular  of 
March  31,  1863,  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  regulate  issues 
accordinglj'.  All  issues  are  to  be  made  on  requisitions  approved  by 
the  chief  of  ordnance  of  the  army  or  department  requiring  the  sup. 
plies,  except  in  cases  of  evident  emergency. 

Signed  H.  L.  CLAY, 

Lieutenant- Colonel  ami  A.  A.  0. 


APPENDIX. 


ADJUTANTS. 

Allowed  to  regiments  and  regularly  organized  a  o  '  M.rch* s  i«»' 
battalions  only.  i^;  rough''o«' 

Beauregard. 

Of  battalions,  when  competent,  not  to  be  changed,  to».'A*'A"o..  March 
should  battaliong  be  increased  to  a  regiment.        h.'  Ru^e.{gc?*th?ough 

Gen.  Beauregard. 

ALIENS. 

Respecting  the  discharge  of,  Attorney- Oeneral  decides  that  sole 
question  is,  as  to  domtcil.  Domicil  is  settlement  with  intention 
of  remaining  permanently.  Practice  of  department  is,  to  re- 
quire affidavits  of  other  persona  beside  soldier  himself.  Thes* 
must  establish  fact  of  an  intention  to  leave,  or  absence  of  an  in- 
tention to  remain. 

Must  be  domtciliated  within  the  Confederate  States     ,  indorsement  of  ai- 

•Hunt    Secretary    of 

to  be  subject  to  military  service.     The  decision    ^''r  on  a  comniuni- 

lloii  forwarded    from 

of  the  ciucstion  of  domiciliation  of  an  alien  may    Head-quarteri    Dep't 

.  -^      8.  C,  Ga..  and   Fla., 

bo  arrived  at  by  :  eonceniiog  the  quei- 

tlon  of  douicil. 

1st.  The  length  of  time  he  has  resided  in  the  country  ; 

2d.    The  nature  of  his  business; 

3d.    The  nature  of   his  social  and  family  connection!    in    th» 

country  ; 
4th.  His  interference  in  public  affairs  ; 
5th.  His  declarations  before  he  had  an  interest  to  conceal   th« 

truth  ; 
flth.  The  nature  of  the  property   accumulated   and    held  by 

him — all  afford  data  to  solve  the  question. 

ARTILLERY. 

General  Orders,  No.  81,  A.  and  I.  Q.  0.,  of  1S62,   -      .     -      . 

'  '  '  '    By  order  Secretarr  of 

not  intended  to  be  retroactive  in  effects,  and  do    War,  January  21, ifeM. 

not  affect  organizations  of  light  batteries  received  by  the  Presi- 
dent under  act  of  May  10,  1861.     (No.  115.) 


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Kxtmct  from  iftter  Under  the  laws,  the  department  has  no  power  to 
K.  A'plm-ey.^A?  aI  '^ppoi'^t  officers  of  artillery,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  below  the 
^;:  "^  S?!"^*'  ^'  h'    rank  of  major  (except   for   ordnance  duty),  and  for 

Clinch,  4th  Gtt.  caval-  . 

ry,  July  14,  i8«j.  (/hat  rank  the  number  of  guns  to  be  commanded  must 

be  at  least  sixteen,     (.^ee  act  January  22,  1862.) 
BOARDS  OF  EXAMINATION. 

Letter  of  Major  ^^  ^^®  brigade  Commander  is  satisfied,  upon  a  re- 
^»""*' ''^•^^."''"•.  *•   view  of  the  proceedings  of  the  examining  boards,  of 

A.  G.,  to    Brigadier-  r  o  o  ' 

General  w.  B.  Taiu-    jjie  competency  of  the  officer  elected,  he  has  authority 

ferro,     dated      Rich-  t  ^  7  j 

mend,  April  Jo,  1863.     to  issue  the  Order  placing  such  officer  on  duty. 

When  an  officer  is  promoted  or  elected,  and  he  is  deemed  compe- 
tent, or  a  board  pronounces  him  so,  there  is,  practicall}',  an 
end  of  the  matter.  The  proceedings  of  the  board  should,  in 
all  cases,  be  forwarded,  but  their  approval  may  be  presumed. 

In  cases  of  officers  rejected  by  the  board,  the  third  section  of 
the  "act  to  relieve  the  army  of  disqualified,  disabled,  and  incom- 
petent officers,"  devolves  upon  the  President  the  final  decision  in 
respect  to  the  officer  rejected,  and  the  second  section  provides  for 
his  suspension  until  action  of  the  President. 

During  that  suspension,  it  is  competent  for  the  department  com- 
mander to  order  the  next  officer  in  rank  to  assume  his  duties: 
but  no  appointment  by  promotion,  in  place  of  rejected  officers, 
can  be  made,  until  the  proceedings  of  the  board  are  duly  ap- 
proved by  the  President. 
Hon.  Secretary  of       The  examination,  under  act  of  Congress   approved 

B.  john«ton,  dated    October  13,  1862,  "  to  relieve  the  army  of  disqualified, 
l»lt.'"°°  '     ''"     °'    disabled,  and  incompetent  officers,"  is  to  determine  the 

qualifications  of  the  officer  for  the  discharge  of  the  duties  prop- 
erly appertaining  to  his  position,  not  to  perform  the  functions  of 
a  court  martial  as  a  trial  for  specific  offences.  An  inquiry  into 
alleged  offences  can  only  be  made  as  incidental  to  the  main  ob- 
ject, viz:  the  determination  of  the  general  qualifications  and 
charge  of  legitimate  duties. 

Whenever  the  board  shall  determine  that  any  officer  is  clearly 
unfit  to  discharge  his  legitimate  and  proper  duties,  or  careless 
and  inattentive  in  their  discharge,  the  full  report  of  their  pro- 
ceedings must  be  communicated,  with  their  decision,  to  the  com- 
manding general,  to  bo  forwarded  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  bo 
by  him,  if  the  findings  of  the  board  bo  approved,  laid  befor* 
the  President  for  bis  action. 

This  report  should  be  made  up  separately  in  each  case,  and  should 
show  tlie  order  convening  the  board — that  the  officer  was  pres- 
ent before  it,  or  was  notified   to  attend — and  all  the  evidence. 


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oral  and  documentary,  adduced  before  the  board,  including  the 
personal  examination  of  the  officer,  if  one  was  had.  Should  the 
board  desire  the  actual  experiment  of  a  drill  before  them,  the 
result  of  their  observations  wuuld  probably  bo  stated. 

If  the  alleged  disability  proceed  from  physical  causes,  or  sick- 
ness, or  wounds,  the  nature  and  porraancnco  of  the  disability 
should  be  shown — and  if  theodiccr  should  desire  to  withdraw  from 
the  service  on  account  of  such  disability,  or  because  of  his  unwill- 
ingness to  stand  an  examination,  his  retignation,  stating  the  rea- 
son, should  be  f  irwardod  for  acceptance  by  the  AVar  department. 

General  Orders,  No.  15,  paragraph  I,  series  186.3,  A.  and  I.  G.  Of- 
fice, furnishes  a  convenient  and  appropriate  mode  of  relieving 
the  service  of  ofUcert  ahtent  icilhoiit  leave,  or  guilty  of  desertion, 
who  can  not  be  subject  to  trial  by  court  martial. 

Though  the  proceedings  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  October 
1.3,  1862,  can  be  m.ade  to  apply  to  all  caset,  whether  the  offi- 
cer is  or  is  not  commissi')no1,  or  recogni/.od  as  in  commission, 
that  under  General  Orders,  No.  .39,  paragraph  II.  of  1862,  can 
still  be  used  by  tlio  commanding  general  in  those  cases  to  which 
it  refers,  except  in  those  where  the  vacancy  to  bo  filled  has  been 
created  by  the  operation  of  the  act — in  which  event  it  is  required 
that  the  board  be  convened  by  the  commanding  general,  and  not 
by  the  brigade  commander. 
CLAIMS. 

Regulation,  for  the  payment  of ,  for  arrears  of  pay  ,^^,^*^^:^l  ^''^C 
and  allowances  due  to  dceeaned  officers  and  sol-  •■'<'*pP'"''"^,,V5' "S°' 
diers  of  the  Confederate  army,  as  by  act  No.  402,  T»mh«r  5,  lecj. 
approved  February  15,  1862,  and  act  No.  .30,  approved  October 
S,  1862. 
The  first  section  of  the  above-named  act  provides  "that  the  p.ay 
and  allowances  due  to  any  volunteer,  non-commissioned  officer, 
musician,  or  private  iu  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall 
be  paid  to  the  widow  of  the  deceased,  if  living — if  not,  to  the 
children,  if  any ;  and  in  default  of  widow  or  children,  to  the  fa- 
ther, if  living — if  not,  to  the  mother  of  such  deceased  volunteer." 
The  first  section  of  act  No.  30  provides  "  that  claims  due  to  do- 
ceased  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  for  pay,  allow- 
ances, and  bounty,  may  be  audited  and  paid,  where  there  is  official 
evidence  of  the  amount  due,  satisfactory  to  the  Second  Auditor, 
under  such  regulations  as  ho  has  or  may  prescribe,  with  the  ap- 
proval of  the  Secretary  of  War." 
By  section  second  of  same  act,  it  is  provided  "that  the  claims  of 
deceased  commissioned  officers  shall  bo  paid  to  their  heirs  or 


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representatires,  in  the  game  manner  as  similar  claims  of  non- 
commissioned officers  and  privates  are  now  or  may  bo  directed  by 
law  to  be  paid." 
Payments  will  be  made  accordingly,  under  the  following  rules  : 

1st.  If  the  child  or  children  be  minor,  payment  will  be  made  to 
the  guardian,  upon  the  production  of  the  proper  certificate  of 
guardianship,  under  the  seal  of  the  court. 
2d.  The  claimant  must  produce  his  or  her  affidavij;,  and  that  of 
one  disinterested  witness,  stating  the  relationship — for  in- 
stance, if  the  claimant  be  a  mother,  the  affidavit  must  state 
that  there  is  living  neither  wi/c,  child,  or  father  of  the  de- 
ceased; if  the  father,  that  there  is  neither  wife  nor  child  ; 
and  if  the  child,  that  there  is  no  widowed  wife. 
The  magistrate,  or  other  projier  officer,  must  testify  to  the  credibility 
■    of  the  H'tOie««,  and  the  c^er/;  o/ f/ic  coio-i  must  certify,  under  the 

seal  of  the   same,  that  he  is  such  a  magistrate. 
Powers  of  attorney  or  assi()7ivteitt,  v/hich  will   seldom   be  necessary, 
may  be  executed  before  a  magistrate,  or   in  the  presence  of  two 
respectable  witnesses. 
COOKS. 

«ndor.etneutorQu.r-  Act  of  Congress  passed  April  21, 1862,  makes  it  the 
rpa^r''"fo?wardeS  duty  of  commanding  officers  of  companies  to  enlist 
Dep«tm'lnf  si' cl"  four  (4)  men  to  cook  for  each  company,  who  will  be  en- 
G».,ftndKift.  titled  to  "  extra  duty"  ^iij    at   the  ordinary   rate  per 

diem,  when   detail  is  made  in  accordance  with  paragraph  885, 
Army  Regulations., 
COMMISSIONS. 

By  comm»nd  of  A.  Are  not  issued  to  company  officers.  They  are  placed 
"Am*^"'""'  "'""   0°  duty  by  orders,  which,  taken  with  the  rolls,  supply 

the  place  of  commissions. 
DISCHARGES. 

Endorsed  decision  The  taking  a  Contract  to  carry  the  mail  by  a  soldier 
derdatcifovcmbe'r  26,  in  the  military  service,  does  not  entitle  him  to  j  Sec- 
f^'ou"groSnd"tha°   retary  of  War  announces  it  as  his  purpose  to  refuse  in 

applic&n  t  h&a  con-       ■.■,  -, 

tract  to  carry  the  mail.     'Ill  SUCn  CaseS. 

DESERTERS. 

Endorsed  on  a  letter  «    ^  ,  ,         y-i  i  j.  l    ai. 

from  Gen.  J.  H.  Tra-  Decision  of  Quartermaster-General  as  to  wnettier 
1863,  by ' jiajor'^j.  V.  the  horse  of  a  deserter  can  be  retained  in  service,  and 
i"°^  Hon.  sTretary   be  used  to  mount  another  soldier  deficient  in  a  horse. 

of  War. 

The  government  acquires  no  ownership  in  cavalry  horses ;  they 
belong  to  the  mounted  volunteer,  and  be  is  paid  for  their  use  and 
risk  a  per  diem  allowance. 


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The  horse  of  a  deserter  is  still  his  property,  and  under  no  law 
can  it  be  forfeited  ;  it  may  be  impressed  as  other  property,  and 
payment  might  be  withheld  because  of  the  disloyalty  of  the  de- 
serter, but  the  impressment  must  be  for  transportation  purposes, 
as  the  law  does  not  authorize  the  impressment  or  purchase  of 
cavalry  horses. 

ORDNANCE  STORES. 

Copy  of  inspection  reports  shall  be  sent  to  Depart-  Dcdiion*  of  Ord- 
ment  Headquarters  for  approval  and  order  as  to  "artmcnts'  und"  rc- 
final  distribution  of  the  property— which  done,  a  ■':?'^;f,1«'r«"^.r" 
copy  of  the  report,  with  final  order  in  the  mat-   ing  disposition  or,  de- 

*  •'  f        '  dared    iinscrviceiible 

ter,  shall  be  sent  to  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance.  bj  an  inspcotor-geu i. 
ORGANIZATIONS. 

New,  can  only  be  formed  of  men  over  the  age  of      n„„_  sccretsrr  of 

46  years.  ■"'"•  •'"">  '"■  '**^- 
OFFICERS. 

State  laws  to  change  the  manner  of  creating,  can      Q^n  g  cooper,  a. 

not  operate  upon  regiments  previously  mustered  Be«uregar"*''Mi»y*9] 

into   Confederate  service,   which,  by  virtue  of  '**^' 

such  muster,  are  not  subject  to  state  authority. 
A  junior  second  lieutenant  can  not  waive  his  right      Lieut.  Coicuei  R.  i. 

,  .  J    !•      1  i      iU  1      u         Palfrey,  A. A. G., June 

to  be  senior  second  lieutenant;  the  grade  be-    ii,  1863,  toKrig.  Gen. 

.,  ,  ,  ,  -1      u  .        ,         W.  S.  Walker,  P.  A. 

ing  the  same,  he  would  necessarily  be  senior  by   c.  s. 

virtue  of  priority  of  date. 
An  election  may  be  held  for  a  junior  second  lieutenant,  who  may, 

if  the   senior  second   lieutenant  waive  promotion,  bo  promoted 

to  first  lieutenant ;  and  then  an  election  m.ay  bo  held  for  a  junior 

second  lieutenant. 
There  is  no  law  authorizing  an  election  of  a  first  lieutenant. 

PROMOTIONS. 

In   leytous,  take  place  by  seniority   in  its  sevcr.al   A.A*r!'.'iAprirv8,''i8M| 

1,    1  to  Brig.  General  N.  O. 

arms  as  a  whole.  iwans. 

Major  E.  A.  Palfrey.  *- 

In  cases  where  next  olficer  in  order  of  succession    a.  a.  g.,  to  General 

Beauregard,     dated 
waives  his  privilege.  Richmond,   Oot'r   29, 

The  waiver  of  title  to  promotion,  with  sanction  of  commanding 
general,  considered  as  equivalent  to  sentence  of  a  competent  ex- 
amining board  of  disability. 

Upon  written  evidence  of  waiver  on  part  of  oflSeer,  next  in  rank 
may  be  promoted. 

RATIONS. 

The  provisions  of  General  Orders,  No.  95,  A.  and      Hon.  Sacrcturr  of 

■,     ^     ^  ^■.r.nn      II  ,  /•    •    1      ^j     TTar,  March  0,  1363. 

I.  G.  0.,  genes  of  1862,  allowing  the,  of  sick  atid 


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wounded  in  hospitals  to  be  commuted  at  $1.00,  extends  to  all 
hospitals,  and  not  merely  to  general  hospitals. 
Telegram  from  Gen-       Paragraph  1,131,  General    Regulations,  relating  to 

S.  Cooper,  A.  und  I.  &      f  '         J  o  .  .  ,  .      , 

General,  to  General    commutation  of,  to  soldiers  OH /urlonnh,is  still  in  force 

31eauregard,    dated 

March  -^5, 1863.  — {.  e.,  the  rations  of  "  soldiers  on  furlough,  or  station- 

ed where  rations  can  not  bo  issued  in  kind,  may  be  commuted  at 
the  cost  value  of  the  ration  at  the  post,"  which  must  be  paid  af- 
ter return  from  furlough.     (See  paragraph  IV,  G.  0.  96,  C.  S.) 

RANK. 

KTtrnctfrom  letter       Opinion  of  Attorney-General  on  the  question  of,  of 

addressed  to  Hon. L. p.  ^  •'  i  > 

Walker,    Secretary  of    officers. 

War,   by  Hon.  J     P.  ,       ,     ,  ,  ■      ■  r 

Benjamin,  Attorney-       Is  the  rank  of  oflScers  who  hold  commissions  irom 

General,  dated  Sept.      .  ,,  .,,        .,        j.riv- 

J,  1861.  the  separate  states   determined  by  the  date  ot  tneir 

state  commissions,  or  by  the  date  of  their  entry  into  the  service 
of  the  Confederate  States  ? 

1.  The  rank  of  officers,  while  serving  in  the  Confederate 
army,  is  to  be  determined  according  to  the  dale  of  the  master 
into  service,  *  *  *  except  where  troops  have  been  received 
into  service  in  the  absen.'e  of  an  officer  authorized  to  muster 
them :  *  *  *  in  such  cases,  the  officer  would  take  rank 
from  the  date  he  icat  received  into  service. 

2.  Officers  commissioned  directly  by  the  President  will  not 
take  rank  over  officers  of  like  grade  commissioned  by  the  states, 
without  regard  to  the  date  of  the  muster  into  service  of  the 
latter. 

.3.  AVhen  regiments  are  formed  of  companies  which  were 
separately  mustered  into  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  the 
captains  take  rank  according  to  the  date  of  the  muster  into  ser- 
vice. When  several  companies,  organized  into  a  regiment,  were 
mustered  into  service  on  the  same  day,  the  relative  rank  of  the 
captains  is  to  be  determined  by  ih^  date  of  the  state  commis- 
sions; when  these  commissions  also  bear  same  date,  the  rela- 
tive rank  is  to  be  determined  by  Jot. 
o  inion  of  Major-  Payment  can  only  be  made  when  Congress  shall 
General  Giimer.Chief  ^j^jje  a  specific  appropriation  for  the  purpose.     As  a 

of  Engineer    Bureau  i  i  r      r  r       r 

(under  date  Nov.  24,   basis  for  such  an  appropriation,  the  Secretary  of  War 

I»«3),  as  to  the  pro-  ri       i 

per  mode  of  treating   ^as  expressed  a  wish  that  commanding  officers   and 

clalmi  for  slaves  lost  ... 

while  In  the  employ   officers  of  engineers  should  give  special  attention  to 

of    the     Confederate  -  .  ,  .       .  j    . 

Btatei.    .  the  collection   of   facts  in  each   case,   to   be  used  in 

evidence  in  support  of  the  claim;  the  same  to  be  forwarded  to 
the  War  department,  and  submitted,  after  examination  by  the 
Engineer  bureau,  to  the  Attorney-General,  whose  duty  it  is,  by 
law,  to  ask  an  a"ppropriation  by  Congress  to  meet  the  claims 


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deemed  well  founded.  Under  this  tiew,  therefore,  payment  o«n 
only  be  made  after  the  funds  shall  have  been  provided  by  Con- 
gress. 
By  paragraph  seventh,  General  Orders,  138,  current  series,  A. 
and  I.  G.  0.,  the  Confederate  States  are  responsible  for  the  value 
of  negroes  employed  on  public  works,  and  this  value  is  to  be 
determined  by  an  appraisement  of  expert*  made  at  the  time  the 
negroes  arc  received. 
SUBSTITUTES. 

Will  not  be  received  unless  the  substitution  first      Lieuunant- Colonel 
.  ,  ,       -    ,  ,  ,.  H.  L.  Cl»x,  A.  A.  o., 

have   the  approval  of  the  general  commanding   Ricbmood,   M»y   u, 

the  army  or  the  department   to  which   the   sol-  g»rd. 

dicr  belongs. 

Principal  not  liable  if  substitute  deserts,  provided  „f^s'ecretl'*    ofwar" 

Bufcstitution  was   effected  prior  to  date  of  Gen-  "'"'*'■,£»'*  septem- 

'^  b«r  9,  1863,  on  a  com- 

era!  Orders,  98,  A.  and  I.  G.  0.,  series  of  186.3—   m.nicaiKm  from  m*j. 

PerrjmaD,   EnroliiDg 

that  is,  before  July  20,  1 86:5.  offictr. 

Has  no    right  to  complain  of  a  violation  in  any      Decuion  or  Bon.  J. 

J  li-T^i-LL  1  liA.  Campbell,   AsaUt- 

order   or  regulation  by  which  he  was  brought   ant s»cret«rj  of  w»r, 

into  service.      He  has  entered  voluntarily,  and    t,  1863. 

must  fulfil  bis  contract. 
Nor  can  the  captain  of  a  company  receive  a  substitute,  and,  after 

discharging  the  principal  and  using  the  substitute,  repudiate  the 

bargain. 
The  annulment  of  the  act,  under  such  circumstances,  can  only  bo 

done  by  the  department. 
VACANCIES. 

In    grade  of  brevet  second  lieutenant  can  not  be      Major  E.  a. Palfrey, 

c    J  V  •    .  J  1.  •  r  A.  A.  G.,  to   General 

filled  by  ajjpotntmcnt,  except  in  cases  of  promo-    Beauregard,    Norem- 

tim  for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct,  by  act   ***'  ^''  ^**'" 

of  the  President.     All  such  vacancies  must  be  filled  by  election. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordkance  Opficb, 
RiCHMOXD,  June  8, 1862. 
No  contract  will  hereafter  be  made  at  places  where  ordnance  officers 
are  stationed,  by  other  ordnance  officers;  nor  must  agents  bo  sent  to 
such  places  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  government  stores. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Coloml,  Chi*/  of  Ordnance. 
T 


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CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  OrriCB, 
Richmond,  June  9, 1862. 
It  has  been  determined  to  adopt  the  ciilibre  of  the  Enfield  rifle,  .577, 
for  all  infantry  arms  made  hereafter  at  the  various  government  estab- 
lishments. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

[Abstract.]  Ordnance  Offiob, 

BiCHMOND,  June  24,  1862. 
Requiring  each  package  of  cartridges  manufactured  to  be  labelled, 
stating  kind  and  calibre  of  ammunition,  and  number  of  rounds  in  the 
package. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

f  Abstract.]  Ordnance  Office, 

Richmond,  Avgwt  16,  1862. 
Instructing  ordnance  officers  to  supply  ordnance  stores  on  requisition 
of  officers  commanding  camps  of  instruction. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

▼  Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

BcREAO  OF  Ordnance, 
Richmond,  November  13,  1862. 
Until  further  orders,  no  artillery  will  be  made  except  the  following 
calibres  : 

Bronze:  Light  12-pounder  or  Napoleon  gun — calibre  4.62. 
Iron  :  For  field  battery  of  manoeuvre — 10-pounder  Parrott,  banded ; 
calibre  2.9. 

For  field  battery  of  reserve — 20-pounder  Parrott ;  calibre  3.67,  on 
12-pounder  carriage. 


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For  ilege  guns — 80-pounder  Parrott;  calibre  4.02,   on   18-ponnder 
siege  carriage. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
NOTK. — To  these  have  since  been  added  a  9-pounder  bronze  gun,  weighing  450 
poundB.  for  mortar  and  cavalry  service ;  and  the  8-incU  banded  siege  gun,  weight 
5,600  pounds,  on  24-pounder  siege  carriage. — J.  Q. 


CIRCULAR. 

Orbxxnci  BtTBBAn, 
Richmond,  Deetmber  22,  1862. 
Ordnance  officers  in  ch.arge  of  posts,  upon  being  relieved  from  the 
command  thereof,  will,  in  all  cases,  in  pursuance  of  paragraph  forty, 
Ordnance  Regulations,  turn  over  all  funds  on  hand  to  their  respective 
successors,  unless  otherwise  specially  ordered. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance, 


CIRCULAR. 

Orbnawce  Bureau, 
Richmond,  December  24,  1862. 
The  manufacture  of  the  Bormann  fuse  will  be  discontinued,  and  the 
method  of  fuse  plugs  and  paper  fuses  resorted  to,  as  described  in  the 
Ordnance  Manual. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Qhiefof  Ordnatiee. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau, 
Richmond,  January  17,  1863. 
In  making  requisitions  for  "  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,"  form 
No.  24,  of  the  Regulations  of  the  Ordnance  department,  must  be 
strictly  adhered  to.  The  amount  of  each  article  on  hand  must  be 
stated.  The  explanation  of  circumstances  demanding  the  issue  must 
be  full,  and  should  state  how  the  deficiencies  occurred,  whether  by 
loss,  or  whether  by  wear  and  tear  of  service.  When  the  requisition  is 
rendered  necessary  by  stores  becoming  unserviceable,  it  must  be  ac- 
companied by  the  report  of  an  inspector,  as  to  whether  they  are  irre- 


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parable  or  not,  and  as  to  whether  any  blame  is  to  be  attached  to  the 
office!^  having  charge  of  the  stores. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Okie/ of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Obdnanck  Bureau, 
Richmond,  February  18,  1863. 
Officers  stationed  at  arsenals  are  to  be  employed  on  duties  appropri- 
ate to  their  commissions,  and  are  not  to  be  employed  on  duties  not  con- 
nected with  their  profession,  except  when  the  public  interest  is  subserved, 
and  then  only  occasionally. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,   Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau, 
Richmond,  February  23,  18C3. 
It  is  hereby  directed  that  no  more  valises  be  fabricated  with  artille- 
ry harness,  consequently  no  valise  saddles  will  be  needed. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance, 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Burabu, 
[Abstract]  Richmond,  March  14,  18G3. 

Wages  paid  at  arsenals  on  31st  day  of  March  will  be   considered 
fixed,  and  will  not  be  changed  without  reference  to  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
Signed  J.  GORGAS", 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau, 
Richmond,  March  16,  1863. 
Calling  attention  to  charges  for  eight  and  ten  inch  columbiadsl     The 


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furmer  must  not  be  flrod  with  a  charge  exceeding  t«n  pounds,  and  tha 
latter  sixteen  pound?. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,   Chief  of  Ordnance. 


■   CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau, 
RiCHMOXD,  Mardi  24,  1863. 
Chief  ordnauco  officers  of  army  corps  and  departments  will,  on  the 
last  day  of  each  month  hereafter,  make  reports  to  this  office  of  the 
number  of  small  arms  and  rounds  of  ammunition,  and  of  artillery  and 
rounds  of  ammunition,  in  the  several  divisions  composing  thie  army 
corps,  or  in  the  command  serving  in  the  department,  adding  thereto 
such  other  tabular  information  as  may  be  necessary  to  keep  this  de- 
partment informed  of  the  state  of  supplies,  and  such  marginal  notes  as 
may  call  attention  to  defects  of  materials  and  deficiencies  in  supplies. 
The  kind  and  calibres  of  arms  and  of  artillery  will  be  specified  with 
accuracy. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordjiaxcs  Buriau, 
Richmond,  March  31, 186.3. 

Requisitions  for  ordnance  stores  will  be  made  on  the  arsenals  and  de- 
pots nearest  to  the  troops  requiring  them. 

Requisitions  must  be  forwarded  through  the  chief  ordnance  officers 
of  the  army  or  department,  except  in  case  of  urgent  necessity,  which 
necessity  must  be  certified  to  by  the  commanding  general  or  field  offi- 
cer ;  and  requisitions  for  arms,  ammunition,  or  accoutrements,  must 
state  the  number  of  men  composing  the  command,  and  the  number  or 
quantity  on  hand. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
Approved : 

Signed  J.  A.  Sedron, 

Secretary  of   War. 
Official : 

Signed         Tnos.  L.  Bayne, 

Captain,  on  dntij  with  Chief  of  Ordnanc*. 


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CIRCULAR. 

[Abstract.]  Ordnance  BxmSAu, 

Richmond,  April  7, 1863. 

All  purchases  or  contracts  for  ordnance  or  ordnance  stores,  amount- 
ing to  ten  thousand  dollars  or  upward,  will  hereafter  be  submitted  to 
this  bureau  for  approval.     Buildings  or  building  material  not  included. 
Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
Official : 

Signed  Thob.  L.  Batne, 

Captain,  on  duty  with  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

[Abstract.]  Obdnancb  Bukeau, 

Richmond,  May  6, 1863. 

Graduations  of  pendulum  hausses  to  be  made  to  indicate  diatancei 
and  not  angle*. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
Official : 
Signed  Edw.  B.  Smith, 

Captain,  and  Assistant  to  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnancb  Bubkad, 
Richmond,  May  14, 1863. 

No  buildings  or   improvements  requiring  an  outlay  of  more  than 
$1,000  will  be  began  until  plans  and  estimates  are  submitted  here. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
Official : 
Signed  E.  B.  Smith, 

Captain,  Assistant  to  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau, 
Richmond,  May  21, 1863. 

In  order  that  the  history  of  guns  employed  in  this  service  may  be 


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traced,  us  far  as  practicable,  care  Tvill  be  taken  to  note  upon  tbc  invoices 
and  receipts  of  all  guns  received  or  pent  to  the  field,  the  foundry,  num- 
ber, iceight,  and  maker. 

Ordnance  oflScers   in  the  field   will  keep  of  the  guns  in  their  com- 
mands a  record  in  these  particulars,  and   in  their  reports  of  guns  cap- 
tared,  lost,  destroyed,  or  transferred,  will  designate  them  as  above. 
Signed  J.  QORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Burkau, 
RicnMOND,  June  6, 1863. 

Aroronnition  chests  for  the  12-pounder  Napoleon  gun  will  bo  packed 
as  follows : 
8  shot  fixed — first  and  second  division,  left  half. 
16  spherical  case — third  division,  left  half,  and  first,  second  and  third 

division,  right  half. 
4  shells — fourth  division,  right  half. 
4  canister — fourth  division,  left  half. 

The  proportion  of  shell  may  be  increased  to  eight,  and  that  of  spheri- 
cal case  diminished  to  eight,  when  the  full  proportion  of  the  latter  can 
not  be  supplied. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
OfTicial : 

Signed  Thob.  L.  Batne, 

Captain,  on  duty  with  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau. 
Richmond,  June  5, 1863. 

When  ammunition  is  captured  it  must  be  kept  separate,  and  not  mix- 
ed with  that  of  our  own  manufacture,  the  powder  being  of  different 
quality. 

The  fuse  mallet  must  not  be  used  in  inserting  the  paper  fuse,  but  the 
paper   fuse  must  be  forced  in  by  hand,  by  turning  and  screwing  it  in. 
The  use  of  the  mallet  knocks  off  the  priming,  and  prevents  ignition. 
Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
OflScial : 

Signed  Thos.  L.  Bayne, 

Captain,  on  duty  icith  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


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CIRCULAR. 

Ordnance  Bureau, 
Richmond,  July  8,  1863. 

In  compliance  with  this  circular,  no  further  issues  will  be  made  ex- 
cept in  cases  of  evident  emergency,  until  at  least  an  approximate 
statement  of  forces  in  the  army,  or  department  to  be  supplied,  under 
the  circular  of  March  31,  1863,  is  made  to  the  commanding  ofiBcer  of 
that  arsenal. 

Accounts  will  be  opened  at  each  arsenal  against  the  array  or  troops 
to  be  supplied,  and  the  issues  limited  according  to  the  requirements  of 
this  circular,  and  proportioned  to  the  forces  to  be  supplied. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
Official : 

Signed  Tuos.  L.  Bayne, 

Major,  oil  duty  with  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


CIRCULAR. 

Ordnancb  Bdriac, 
Richmond,  Jul]/  10.  1863. 

Classificatiox  op  Arms. 
1«<  Clatt. — All  arms,  calibre  .577  and  .68,  with  or  without  bayonets. 
These  must  be  held  for  issue  to  troops  longest  in  the  field,  and  are  to 
be  regarded  as  the  regular  arms  of  the  troops  of  the   Confederate 
States. 
2d  Class. — Rifles,  with  or  without  bayonets,  calibre  .54.     Muskets,  with 
bayonets,  model  1842.     Those  also  to  be  held  for  issue  to  troops  em- 
bodied for  service  during  the  war. 
Zd  Class. — All  rifles  not  of  the   above   calibres.     Muskets  altered  to 

percussion,  and  other  arms  of  any  description. 
4tA  Class. — Shot  guns  and  sporting  rifles.     From  these  last  two  classes 
alone  the  organizations  for  home  defence  must  be  equipped. 

Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 
Official: 

Signed  Thos.  L.  Bayne, 

Major,  on  dnty  with  Chief  of  Staff. 


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CIRCULAR. 

OllD:»A!fC«  BURKAU, 

RiCDMOXD,  Octohtr  31,  1863. 
Please  to  cause  monthly  reports  of  officers  on  ordnance  duty,  in  the 
command  of  which  you  are  chief  ordnance  officer,  to  be  made  accord- 
ing to  the  enclosed  form. 

It  is  found  necessary  to  call  for  such  a  report,  in  consequence  of  the 
frequent  assignments  made  without  knowledge  of  this  department. 
Signed  J.  GORGAS, 

Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


Official : 

Signed 


Thos.  L.  Bathe, 

Major,  on  duty  with  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


Fork. 

Lilt  of  Officers  on  Ordnance  duty  in  the  • 


Corps, 

Division,  or 

BrigHde. 


,^„j Rank  in 

tion         .^-  "• 
Army. 


P.A.C.S.  h*^  ^'^'en- 
mcnt. 


Remarks. 


Deficiencies  in  Oudnance  Stores  in  the  Battalion  of  Light  Ar- 
tillery, COMMANDED  BY   


CAnSB  6T  BEFICIENCT. 


Capt. .        1  spare  wheel. 

Capt. 2  collars. 


Worn  out  in  service. 

Injured    from    want! 

of  care,  etc.  | 


Head  quarters, , 

, ,  186—. 

I  certify  that  I  have  inspected  the  battery  of  light  artillery,  com- 
manded by ,  and  find  the  deficiencies  in  ordnance  stores  as 

'  slated  above,  and  that  no  blame  is  to  bo  attached  to  the  officer  having 
charge  of  the  stores. 

NoTB. — To  ascortnin  what  batteries  of  liglit  artillery  require,  it  is  advisable  that 
they  should  bo  inspected  from  time  to  time,  by  an  inspector  appointed  for  the  pur- 
pose, who  will  state,  according  to  the  enclosed  form,  what  articles  are  deficient; 
Requisitions  may  then  be  made  to  conform  to  condemnationt,  a  copy  of  the  In- 
V 


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specter's  report  of  deficiencies  being  Tittached,  and  requisitions  for  batteries 
should  be  limited  to  such  articles,  except  for  special  reasons,  to  be  passed  upon 
by  the  chief  ordnance  ofBcer  of  the  army. 

Articles  dreppod  should  be  returned  to  the  nearest  arsenal,  or,  if  bulky,  broken 
up,  and  parts  turned  in  to  the  nearest  arsenal. 

J.  G  ORG  AS, 
Colonel,  Chief  of  Ordnance, 


[Extract.] 
SPECIAL  ORDEKS; 


•} 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 
No.  278.  J  Richmond,  Kbvember  23, 1863! 

»«»*»«  •;.•:-  *  * 

XXVI.. Lieutenant-Colonel  J.  A.  de  Lagnel,  artillery,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  is 
assigned  to  duty  as  Inspector  of  Arsenals,  to  take  effect  from  May  15, 
1853,  and  will  report  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  in  this  city. 


By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Signed  JOHN  WITHERS, 

Assi&iant  Adjutant- General. 


[Extract.] 
SPECIAL  ORDERS, 
No.  214 


ERS,| 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-Geneeal's  Officb, 
Richmond,  September  9, 1863. 


XVIII.  .Major  F.  F.  Jones,  artillery,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  is  assigned  to  duty 
as  Inspector  of  Small-arms,  and  will  report  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance, 
jsf  *  a  *  *  *  »  *•;-  * 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Signed  JOHN  WITHERS, 

Aaaiatant  Adjutant- General. 


[Extract.] 
SPECIAL  ORDERS, 

No.  216. 


Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office,     • 
Richmond,  September  11, 1863. 


XXVI.  .Major  J.  W.  Mallet,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  artillery,  heretofore  assign- 
ed to  duty  in   the  Ordnance  department,  is  hereby  officially  announced 


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as  Superintendent  C.  S.  Laboratories  of  the  Ordnance  department,  with 
head-quarters  at  Macon,  Georgia. 

♦  *»»*»»»» 

By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Signed  JOHN  WITHERS, 

Assistant  Adjutant-General. 


OEXERAL  ORDERS."!  Adjutant  axd  Inspkctor-Oineral's  Officb, 

No.  3.  I  Richmond,  January  9,  1864. 

I.  .The  following  acts  of  Congress  and  Regulations  are  published  for 
the  information  of  all  persons  concerned  therein: 

'  Acts. 

An  act  to  prevent  the  enlistment  or  enrolment  of  substitutes  in  the  mili- 
tary/ service  of  the  Confederate  States. 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  A'merica  do  enact,  That 
no  person  liable  to  military  service  shall  hereafter  be  permitted  or 
allowed  to  furnish  a  substitute  for  such  service,  nor  shall  any  substitute 
be  received,  enlisted,  or  enrolled  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confed- 
erate States."     [Approved  December  28,  1863.] 

An  act   to  put  an  end   to  the  exemption  from  military  service,  of  those 
who  have  heretofore  furnished  siihstitutcs. 

"  Whereas,  in  the  present  circumstances  of  the  country,  it  requires 
thtf  aid  of  all  who  are  able  to  bear  arms : 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Americd  do  enact,  That 
no  person  shall  bo  exempted  from  military  service  by  reason  of  his 
having  furnished  a  substitute;  but  this  act  shall  not  be  so  construed  as 
to  affect  persons  who,  though  not  liable  to  render  military  service, 
have,-  nevertheless,  furnished  substitutes."  [Approved  January  6, 
1864.] 

II.. Persons  rendered  liable  to  military  service  by  operation  of  the 
preceding  acts,  are  placed  on  the  same  footing  with  all  others  hitherto 
held  liable  by  acts  of  Congress. 

III.. Persons  herein  rendered  liable  to  military  service  are  required 
to  report  as  volunteers  or  conscripts,  without  delay,  to  the  enrolling 
officers;  and  all  who  delay  beyond  the  1st  day  of  February,  186t,  will 
bo  considered  as  having  renounced  the  privilege  of  volunteering,  and 
held  for  asBignment  according  to  law. 


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rV.  .Enrolling  officers  will  proceed,  as  rapidly  as  practicable,  in  the 
enrolment  of  persons  herein  made  liable  to  military  service.  Previous 
to  enrolment  as  conscripts,  all  such  persons  will  be  allowed  to  volun- 
teer in  companies  in  service  on  the  16th  of  April,  1862;  })rovided  the 
company  chosen  does  not  at  the  time  of  volunteering  reach  the  maxi- 
mum number  allowed;  and  upon  such  company  being  selected,  the 
volunteer  will  receive  from  the  enrolling  officer  a  certificate  to  the 
effect  that  he  has  so  volunteered;  and  no  volunteer  will  be  received 
into  any  company  except  on  such  certificate.  Persons  who  fail  to 
make  their  selection  at  the  time  of  enrolment,  will  be  assigned  accord- 
ing to  existing  regulations. 

v.. Persons  who  report  to  the  enrolling  officers  will  be  enrolled,  and 
may  be  allowed  a  furlough  of  ten  days  before  reporting  to  the  camp  of 
instruction. 

VI.. All  persons,  whether  volunteers  or  conscripts  under  this  order, 
will  pass  through  the  camp  of  instruction  of  the  state  to  which  they 
belong,  and  be  forwarded  thence  to  the  companies  which  are  selected, 
or  to  which  they  may  be  assigned. 

VII.. The  Bureau  of  Conscription  is  charged  with  adopting  proper 
regulations  for  the  enforcement  of  this  order. 

VIII.. All  exemptions  heretofore  granted  are  subject  to  revision, 
under  instructions  from  the  Bureau  of  Conscription;  and  if  found  to 
be  improper,  or  unauthorized  by  law,  will  be  revoked. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER,        . 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adjdtant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  6.  )  Richmond,  January  14,  1864. 

I.  .Whenever  ordnance  stores  are  lost  or  damaged  in  any  brigade,  it 
will  be  the  duty  of  each  brigade  or  district  commander,  at  the  request 
of  his  ordnance  officer,  or  of  any  officer  accountable  for  ordnance 
stores,  to  appoint,  as  often  as  necessary,  a  board  of  survey,  to  consist 
of  three  officers,  to  assess  the  value  of  or  damage  to  such  stores. 

II.  .The  decision  of  this  board,  with  the  approval  of  the  brigade  or 
district  commander,  will  be  final;  and  it  will  be  the  duty  of  the  brigade 
or  district  ordnance  officer  to  notify  the  company  commander  to  stop 
the  amount  on  the  muster-rolls  when  privates  are  found  chargeable; 


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and  when  officers  are  found  chargeable,  instead  of  reporting  to  the 
Secretary  of  War,  as  required  by  paragraph  921,  General  Regulations, 
he  will  notify  the  brigade  quartermaster,  or  the  chief  quartermaster  of 
the  district,  to  have  the  amount  stopped  at  the  next  payment.  Dupli- 
cate of  such  notification,  in  the  case  of  olficers  and  privates,  to  be  sent 
to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  at  Richmond,  to  bo  by  him  transmitted  to 
the  Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury. 

III.  .The  brigade  or  district  ordnance  officer  will  furnish  the  brigade 
inspector,  or  other  officer  having  charge  of  that  duty,  with  a  state- 
ment of  all  stoppages  made  by  the  board  of  survey  against  officers 
and  men,  and  the  inspector  will  see  that  these  stoppages  are  actually 
made. 

IV.  .The  same  instructions  will  be  adhered  to  in  the  artillery,  where 
the  officers  in  charge  of  the  artillery  of  a  corps  or  of  a  department 
will  call  the  board  of  survey. 

V... Ordnance  sergeants  of  regiments  will  remain  habitually  with 
their  regiments,  and  keep  themselves  constantly  informed  as  to  the 
positions  of  the  brigade  ordnance  train. 

VI.  .The  use  of  the  sword-bayonet  having  been  generally  disapproved 
by  boards  of  officers  in  the  field,  to  whom  the  question  of  its  useful- 
ness was  referred,  its  manufacture  has  been  ordered  to  be  discontinued. 
The  triangular  bayonet  will  be  substituted. 

VII.  .Hospital  funds,  within  $5,000,  accrued  at  general  hospitals,  may 
be  transferred  to  other  general  hospitals,  on  the  order  of  the  Medical 
Director  or  Surgeon-General. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


6ENEUAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector-Genehal's  Office, 

No.  13.  f  Richmond,  February  3, 1864. 

I.  .In  the  event  of  the  loss  of  company  records,  and  the  consequent 
inability  of  the  commanding  officers  to  certify,  therefrom,  the  clothing 
accounts  of  soldiers,  said  accounts  may  be  stated  from  memory,  pro- 
vided such  statements  are  supported  by  the  affidavits  of  the  soldiers 
interested. 

II.. When,  from  the  casualties  of  war,  companies  have  been  entirely 


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deprived  of  their  officers,  in  the  adjustnient  of  clothing  accounts  the 
affidavit  of  the  soldier,  together  with  those  of  two  of  his  comrades, 
will  be  esteemed  sufficient  evidence  to  authorize  a  settlement  with  him, 
if  the  statement  shall  be  approved  by  the  regimental  commander. 

III.  .Hereafter  the  articles  of  clothing  issued  during  the  year  will  bo 
stated  opposite  the  name  of  each  soldier,  upon  the  muster-roll  of  his 
company,  at  the  annual  settlement  directed  in  General  Orders,  No.  100, 
Adjutant  and  luspector-General's  office,  December  8,  1862. 

IV.  .The  attention  of  company  commanders  is  called  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  above  quoted  General  Orders.     By  failing  to  account  for 
clothing  received  by  them  for  issue  to  their  men,  they  render  them-  ■ 
selves  liable  to  be  charged  with  its  value,  and  a  stoppage  of  their  pay 
to  the  amount. 

v.. From  and  after  the  1st  of  February,  1864,  instead  of  supplying 
company  commanders  with  clothing  for  their  men,  officers  .of  the  Quar- 
termaster's department  will  issue  to  the  soldier,  upon  the  requisition  of 
his  immediate  commanding  officer. 

VI.. In  making  payments  to  soldiers  upon  descriptive  lists,  officers 
of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will  be  careful  to  endorse  thereon 
the  amounts  paid,  and  the  time  for  which  they  have  been  paid,  return- 
ing the  same  to  them  for  delivery  to  their  company  commanders,  and 
filing  with  their  accounts  a  certified  copy  thereof. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Lisj^ector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDEKS.I  Adjotakt  and  Inspector-General's  Officb, 

No.  21.  J  RicnMOXD,  February  20, 1864. 

The  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information  of  the 
army: 

An  act  to  reduce  the  currency,  and  to  authorize  a  new  issue  of  notes  and 

bonds. 

Sec.  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  holders  of  all  treasury  notes  above  the  denomination  of  five 
dollars,  not  bearing  interest,  shall  be  allowed  until  the  first  day  of  April, 
1864,  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and  until  the  first  day  of  .July,  1864, 
west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  to  fund  the  same,  and  until  the  periods  and 
at  the  places  stated,  the  holders  of  all  such  treasury  notes  shall  be  allow- 


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cd  to  fund  the  game  in  registered  bonds  payable  twenty  years  after 
their  date,  bearing  interest  at  the  rate  of  four  per  cent,  per  annum, 
paynble  on  the  firs^  day  of  January  and  July  of  each  3"ear. 

Skc.  2.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury'  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue 
the  bonds  required  for  the  funding  provided  for  in  the  preceding  sec- 
tion ;  and  until  the  bonds  can  be  prepared,  he  may  issue  certificates  to 
answer  the  purpose.  Such  bonds  and  certificates  shall  bo  receivable, 
without  interest,  in  p.ayment  of  all  government  dues  payable  in  the 
year  18C4.  except  export  and  import  duties. 

Sec.  3.  That  all  treasury  notes  of  the  denomination  of  one  hundred 
dollar?,  not  bearing  interest,  which  shall  not  be  presented  for  funding 
under  the  provisions  of  the  first  section  of  this  act,  shall,  from  and  after 
the  first  day  of  April,  1864,  cast  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and  the  first 
day  of  July.  18G4,  west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  cease  to  be  receivable 
in  the  payment  of  public  dufes ;  and  said  notes,  if  not  so  presented  at 
that  time,  shall,  in  addition  to  tho  tax  of  thirty-three  and  one-third 
cents  imposed  in  the  4th  section  of  this  act,  bo  subject  to  a  tax  of  ten 
per  cent,  per  month  until  so  presented  ;  which  taxes  shall  attach  to  said 
notes  wherever  circulated,  and  shall  be  deducted  from  the  face  of  said 
notes  whenever  presented  for  payment  or  for  funding,  and  said  note 8 
shall  not  be  exchangeable  for  the  now  issue  of  treasury  notes  provided 
for  in  this  act. 

Sf,c.  4.  That  on  all  said  treasury  notes  not  funded  or  used  in  paymei  t 
of  taxes  at  the  dates  and  places  prescribed  in  the  first  section  of  this  act, 
there  shall  be  levied  at  said  dates  and  places  a  tax  of  thirty-threo  and 
one-third  cents  for  every  dollar  promised  on  tho  face  of  said  notes. 
Said  tax  shall  attach  to  said  notes  wherever  circulated,  and  shall  be 
collected  by  deducting  the  same  at  the  treasury,  its  depositories,  and  by 
the  tax  collectors,  and  by  all  government  officers  receiving  the  same, 
whenever  presented  for  payment  or  for  funding,  or  in  payment  of  gov- 
ernment dues,  6r  for  postage,  or  in  exchange  for  new  notes  as  hereinaf- 
ter provided;  and  said  treasury  notes  shall  be  fundable  in  bonds,  as 
provided  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  until  the  first  day  of  January, 
1865,  .it  the  rate  of  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  cents  on  the  dollar;  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  tho  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  at  any  time  between 
the  first  of  April,  east,  and  the  first  of  July,  1864,  west,  of  tho  Mississippi 
river,  and  the  first  of  Janu.ary,  1865,  to  substitute  and  exchango  new 
ireasufy  notes  for  the  same,  at  the  rate  of  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  cents 
on  tho  dollar;  provided,  that  notes  of  the  denomination  of  one  hundred 
doU.ars  .shall  not  be  entitled  to  the  privilege  of  said  exchange ;  provided, 
further,  that  the  right  to  fund  any  of  said  treasury  notes  after  first  day 
of  January,  1865,  is  hereby  taken  away  ;  and  provided,  further,  that 
upon  all  such  treasury  notes  which  may  remain  outstanding  on  the  first 


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day  of  January,  1865,  and  which  may  not  be  exchanged  for  new  treas- 
ury notes  as  herein  provided,  a  tax  of  one  hundred  per  cent,  is  hereby 
imposed. 

Sec.  5.  That  after  the  first  day  of  April  next  all  authority  heretofore 
given  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  to  issue  treasury  notes  shall  be 
and  is  hereby  revoked :  provided,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may, 
after  that  time,  issue  new  treasury  notes  in  such  form  as  he  may  pre- 
scribe, payable  two  years  after  the  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace  with 
the  United  States,  said  new  issues  to  be  receivable  in  payment  of  all 
public  dues  except  export  and  import  duties,  and  to  be  issued  in 
exchange  for  old  notes  at  the  rate  of  two  dollars  of  the  new  for  three 
dollars  of  the  old  issues,  whether  said  old  notes  be  surrendered  for  ex- 
change by  the  holders  thereof,  or  be  received  into  the  treasury  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act ;  and  the  holders  of  the  new  notes  or  of  the  old 
notes,  except  those  of  the  denomination  of  one  hundred  dollars,  after 
they  are  reduced  to  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  cents  on  the  dollar,  by  the 
tax  aforesaid,  may  convert  the  same  into  call  certificates,  bearing  inter- 
est at  the  rate  of  four  per  cent,  per  annum,  and  payable  twO'  years  after 
the  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace  with  the  United  States,  unless  sooner 
converted  into  new  notes. 

Sec.  6.  That  to  pay  the  expenses  of  the  government  not  otherwise 
provided  for,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue 
six  per  cent,  bonds,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  five  hundred  millions 
of  dollars,  the  principal  and  interest  whereof  shall  be  free  from  taxation ; 
and  for  the  payment  of  the  interest  thereon  the  entire  net  receipts  of 
any  export  duty  hereafter  laid  on  the  value  of  all  cotton,  tobacco,  and 
naval  stores,  which  shall  be  exported  from  the  Confederate  States,  and 
the  net  proceeds  of  the  import  duties  now  laid,  or  so  much  thereof  as 
may  be  necessary  to  pay  annually  the  interest,  are  hereby  specially 
pledged;  provided,  that  the  duties  now  laid  upon  imports  and  hereby 
pledged,  shall  hereafter  be  paid  in  specie,  or  in  sterling  exchange,  or  in 
the  coupons  of  said  bonds. 

Sec.  7.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized,  from 
time  to  time,  as  the  wants  of  the  treasury  may  require  it,  to  sell  or 
hypothecate  for  treasury  notes  said  bonds,  or  any  part  thereof,  upon  the 
best  terms  he  can,  so  as  to  meet  appropriations  by  Congress,  and  at  the 
same  time  reduce  and  restrict  the  amount  of  the  circulation  in  treasury 
notes  within  reasonable  and  safe  limits. 

Sec.  8.  The  bonds  authorized  by  the  sixth  section  of  this  act  may  be 
either  registered  or  coupon  bonds,  as  the  parties  taking  them  may  elect, 
and  they  may  be  exchanged  for  each  other  under  such  regulations  as 
the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  prescribe.  They  shall  be  for  one 
bttodred  dollars,  or  some  multiple  of  one  hundred  dollars,  and  shall, 


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together  with  the  coupons  thereto  attached,  be  in  such  form  and  of  such 
authentication  as  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  prescribe.  The 
interest  shall  be  payable  half  yearly,  on  the  first  of  January  and  July 
in  each  year — the  principal  sbiiU  be  payable  not  less  than  thirty  years 
from  their  date. 

Sec.  9.  All  call  certificates  shall  be  fundable,  and  shall  be  taxed  in 
all  respects,  as  is  provided  for  the  treasury  notes  into  which  they  are 
convertible.  If  not  converted  before  the  time  fi.xed  for  taxing  the 
treasury  notes,  such  certificates  shall,  from  that  time,  bear  interest  upon 
only  sixty-six  OTci  two-thirds  cents  for  every  dollar  promised  upon  their 
face,  and  shall  be  redeemable  only  in  new  treasury  notes  at  that  rate  ; 
but  after  the  passage  of  this  act  no  call  certificates  shall  be  issued  until 
after  the  first  day  of  April,  1864. 

Sec.  10.  That  if  any  bank  of  deposit  shall  give  its  depositors  the 
bonds  authorized  by  the  first  section  of  this  act  in  exchange  for  their 
deposits,  and  specify  the  same  on  the  bonds  by  some  distinctive  mark  or 
token,  to  be  agreed  upon  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasurj',  then  the 
said  depositor  shall  bo  entitled  to  receive  the  amount  of  said  bond*  in 
treasury  notes  bearing  no  interest,  and  outstanding  at  the  passage  of 
this  act;  provided,  the  said  bonds  arc  presented  before  the  privilege  of 
funding  said  notes  at  par  shall  cease,  as  herein  prescribed. 

Sec.  11.  That  all  treasury  notes  heretofore  issued  of  the  denomina- 
tion of  five  dollars  shall  continue  to  be  receivable  in  payment  of  public 
dues,  as  provided  by  law,  and  fundable  at  par  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  until  the  first  day  of  July,  1804,  east,  and  until  the  first  day  of 
October,  lSfi4,  west,  of  the  Mississippi  river,  but  after  that  time  they 
shall  bo  subject  to  a  tax  of  thirty-three  and  one-third  cents  on  every 
dollar  promised  on  the  face  thereof — said  tax  to  attach  to  said  notes 
wherever  circulated,  and  said  notes  to  bo  fundable  and  exchangeable 
for  new  treasury  notes,  as  herein  provided,  subject  to  the  deduction  of 
said  tax. 

Sec.  12.  That  any  state  holding  treasury  notes,  received  before  the 
times  herein  fixed  for  taxing  said  notes,  shall  bo  allowed  until  the  first 
day  of  January,  1865,  to  fund  the  sjxiuc  in  six  per  cent,  bonds  of  the 
Confederate  States,  payable  twenty  years  after  date,  and  the  interest 
payable  semi-annually.  But  all  treasury  notes  received  by  any  state 
after  the  time  fixed  for  taxing  the  same  as  aforesaid,  shall  bo  held  to 
have  been  received  diminished  by  the  amount  of  said  tax.  The  dis- 
crimination between  the  notes  subject  to  the  tax  and  those  not  so  subject 
shall  bo  left  to  the  good  faith  of  each  state,  and  the  certificate  of  the 
governor  thereof  shall  in  each  case  be  conclusive. 

Sec.  13.  That  treasury  notes  heretofore  issued,  bearing  interest  at  the 
rate  of  seven  dollars  and  thirty  cents  on  the  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 


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shall  no  longer  be  received  in  payment  of  public  dues,  but  shall  be 
deemed  and  considered  bonds  of  the  Confederate  States,  payable  two 
years  after  a  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace  with  the  United  States, 
bearing  the  rate  of  interest  specified  on  their  face,  payable  on  the  first 
day  of  January  in  each  and  every  year. 

Sec.  14.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  be,  and  he  is  hereby 
authorized,  in  case  the  exigencies  of  the  government  should  require  it, 
to  pay  the  demand  of  any  public  creditor  whose  debt  may  be  contracted 
after  the  passage  of  this  act,  willing  to  receive  the  s:u^  in  a  certificate 
of  indebtedness  to  be  issued  by  said  secretary,  in  such  form  as  he  may 
deem  proper,  paj'able  two  years  after  a  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace 
with  the  United  States,  bearing  interest  at  the  rate  of  six  per  cent,  per 
annum,  payable  semi-annually,  and  transferable  only  by  special  endorse- 
ment under  regulations  to  bo  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treas- 
ury, and  said  certificate  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation  in  principal  and 
interest. 

Sec.  15.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  authorized  to  increase  the 
number  of  depositories  so  as  to  meet  the  requirements  of  this  act,  and 
with  that  view  to  employ  such  of  the  banlcs  of  the  several  states  as  ho 
may  deem  expedient. 

Sec.  16.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  shall  forthwith  advertise  this 
act  in  such  newspapers  published  in  the  several  states,  and  by  such 
other  means  as  shall  secure  immediate  publicity,  and  the  Secretary  of 
War  and  the  Secrctai-y  of  the  Navy  shall  each  cause  it  to  be  published 
in  general  orders  for  the  information  of  the  army  and  navy. 

Sec.  17.  The  forty-second  section  of  the  act  for  the  assessment  and 
collection  of  taxes,  approved  May  1,  1S63,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  18.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized  and  re- 
quired, upon  the  application  of  the  holder  of  any  call  certificate — which, 
by  the  first  section  of  the  act  "to  provide  for  the  funding  and  further 
issue  of  treasury  notes,"  approved  March  23,  1863,  was  required  to  be 
"thereafter  deemed  to  be  a  bond" — to  issue  to  such  holder  a  bond  there- 
for upon  the  terms  provided  by  said  act.  [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Insjyector-General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adjuta.vt  and  Inspector-Geneual's  Office, 

No.  25.  r  Richmond,  February  29,  18C4. 


I.. The  following  acts  of  Congress  are  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army : 


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1.  Joint  resolution  to   declare  the  meaning  of  an  act  allowing  hospital 
accommodations  to  sick  and  wounded  ojficera. 

"Resolved,  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
That  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  an  act  allowing  hospital  accoin- 
modationa  to  sick  and  wounded  officers,  approved  the  twenty-ninth 
day  of  April,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three,  were  to  cause  to  be 
furnishad  not  only  medicines,  medical  and  other  attendance^ and  lodg- 
ing, but  subsistence  also."     [Approved  February  13,  18C4.] 

2.   An  act  to  increase  the  commutation  value  of  hospital  rations. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  commutation  value  of  rations  of  the  sick  and  wounded,  and  of  all 
employees  in  hospitals,  be  fixed  at  such  rates,  not  to  exceed  two  and  a 
half  dollars,  as  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  designate."  [Approved 
February  15,  1864.] 

3.  An  act  to  amend  an  act  regulating  the  granting  of  furloughs  and 
discharges  in  hospitals,  approved  May  1,  1863. 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
an  act  regulating  the  granting  of  furloughs  and  discharges  in  hospitals, 
approved  May  the  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three,  be  an<l  fho 
same  is  hereby  so  amended  as  to  provide  that  the  period  of  disability 
therein  named,  which  entitles  soldiers,  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals, 
to  furloughs,  shall  be  extended  to  sixty  days  or  upwards,  in  which  case 
the  board  of  exftminers  may  grant  furloughs  for  sixty  days."  [Ap- 
proved February  17,  1864.] 

II.. Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  69,  last  series,  is  so  amended 
that  soldiers,  sick  or  wounded  in  hospitals,  will  not  be  granted  fur* 
loughs,  unless  they  are  likely  to  remain  unfit  for  military  duty  for 
sixty  days,  in  which  case  they  may  be  furloughed  for  that  period. 

III.. Hospital  funds  accrue  in  all  h^ispitals— regimental,  field,  or 
other  hospitals. 

IV.  .Paragraph  VIII,  General  Orders,  No.  8,  current  series,  is  here- 
by revoked.  Rations  in  kind  (such  as  are  issued  to  soldiers  in  the 
field)  will  be  issued  to  all  attendants  in  field  hospitals,  and,  when  re- 
quired by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  to  the  female  attendants  in  general 
hospitals.  The  rations  of  all  male  attendants  in  general  hospitals  in 
cities  and  towns  will  be  commuted — the  amount  to  be  drawn  by  the 
surgeon  in  charge,  and  expended  by  him  for  their  subsistence. 

V.  .The  commuted  value  of  rations  of  the  sick  and  wounded,  and  of 
all  employees  in  regimental,  field,  or  other  hospitals,  will  be,  until  fur- 
ther orders,  two  dollars  an'l  ;if*y  cent.". 


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VI.  .General  Orders,  No.  71,  last  series,  is  amended  as  follows:  For 
officers,  sick  or  wounded  in  hospitals,  rations  will  be  drawn,  or,  when 
required  by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  their  value  commuted  at  the  price 
fixed  in  the  preceding  paragraph. 

VII.  .The  last  two  preceding  paragraphs  will  not  have  effect  in  the 
Trans-Mississippi  departpient. 

VIII.. The  following  order  is  published  in  connection  with  para- 
graphs VIII  and  IX,  General  Orders,  No.  22  (1864): 

Officers  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  department,  belonging  to  comnianda 
east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  will  immediately  return  to  their  respective 
commands.  In  cases  where  such  officers  have  no  command,  or  are  un- 
assigned  to  any  by  proper  authority,  action  under  the  act  of  Congress 
to  provide  for  retiring  officers  of  the  army,  approved  February  17, 
1864,  will  be  taken  by  the  general  commanding  that  department,  who 
will  also  adopt  proper  measures  to  carry  into  effect  these  orders. 

IX.  .Supplies  of  provisions  in  transitu  to  arsenals,  armories,  and  ord- 
nance depots,  for  the  use  of  operatives,  under  the  order  of  command- 
ing officers  of  the  same,  will  not  be  interfered  with  by  officers  of  other 
departments. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector- General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adjutant  and  Inspector- General's  Office, 

No.  26.  )  Richmond,  March  1,  1864. 

The  following  act  of  Congress  and  Regulations  are  published  for  the 
Information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned  : 

^11  act  to  organize  forces  to  serve  during  the  war. 
The   Congress  of  the   Confederate  States  of  America  do    enact,  That 
from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  all  white  men,  residents  of  the 
Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of  seventeen   and  fifty,  shall  be 
in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  for  the  war. 

Sec.  2.  That  all  the  persons  afores.aid,  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 
and  forty-five,  now  in  service,  shall  be  retained,  during  the  present 
war  with  the  United  States,  in  the  same  regiments,  battalions,  and 
companies  to  which  they  belong  at  tlie  passage  of  this  act,  with  the 
same  organization  and  officers,  unless  regularly  transferred  or  dis- 
charged, in  accordance  with  the  laws  and  regulations  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  army :  provided,  that  companies  from  one  state,  organized 


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against  their  consent,  expressed  at  the  time,  with  regiments  or  bat- 
talions from  another  state,  shall  have  the  privilege  of  being  trans- 
ferred to  organizations  of  troops  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service  from 
the  state  in  whifii  said  companies  were  raised  ;  and  the  soldiers  from 
one  state  in  companies  from  another  state  shall  be  allowed,  if  they  de- 
sire it,  atrnnsfer  to  organizations  from  their  own  state  in  the  same  arm 
of  the  service. 

Sec.  3.  That,  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  from  the  first  day  of 
April  next,  a  bounty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  in  a  six  per  cent,  govern- 
ment bond,  which  the  Secretary  of  tlie  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized 
to  issue,  shall  be  paid  to  every  non-commissioned  officer,  musician,  and 
private  who  shall  then  be  in  the  service,  or,  in  the  event  of  his  death 
previous  to  the  period  of  such  payment,  then  to  the  person  or  persons 
who  would  be  entitled  by  law  to  receive  the  arrearages  of  his  paj' ;  but 
no  one  shall  be  entitled  to  the  bounty  herein  provided  who  shall,  at 
any  time  during  the  period  of  six  months  next  after  the  said  first  day 
of  April,  be  absent  from  his  couunand  without  leave. 

Sec.  4.  That  no  person  shall  bo  relieved  from  the  operation  of  this 
act  by  reason  of  having  been  heretofore  discharged  from  the  army, 
where  no  disability  now  exists,  nor  shall  those  who  have  furnished  sub- 
stitutes bo  any  longer  exempted  by  reason  thereof;  provided,  that  no 
person  heretofore  exempted  en  account  of  religious  opinions,  and  who 
has  paid  the  tax  levied  to  relieve  him  from  service,  shall  be  required  to 
render  military  service  under  this  act. 

Sec.  5.  That  all  white  male  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  be- 
tween the  ages  of  seventeen  and  eighteen  and  forty-five  and  fifty  years, 
shall  enroll  themselves,  at  such  times  and  places,  and  under  such  regu- 
lations, as  the  President  may  prescribe — the  time  allowed  not  being  less 
than  thirty  daj-s  for  those  east,  and  sixty  days  for  those  west,  of  the 
Mississippi  river;  and  any  person  who  shall  fail  so  to  enroll  himself, 
without  a  reasonable  excuse  therefor,  to  be  judged  of  by  the  President, 
shall  be  placed  in  service  in  the  field  for  the  war,  in  the  same  manner 
as  though  he  were  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five;  /)rorirf- 
ed,  that  the  persons  mentioned  in  this  section  shall  constitute  a  reserve 
for  state  defence  and  detail  duty,  and  shall  not  be  required  to  perform 
service  out  of  the  state  in  which  they  reside. 

Sec.  6.  That  all  persons  required  by  the  fifth  section  of  this  act  to 
enroll  themselves  may,  within  thirty  days  after  the  passage  hereof,  east 
of  the  Mississippi  river;  and  within  sixty  days  if  west  of  said  river,  form 
themselves  into  voluntary  organizations  of  companies,  battalions,  or 
regiments,  and  elect  their  own  oflicers — said  organizations  to  conform 
to  the  existing  law  ;  and  having  so  organized,  to  tender  their  services 
as  ToIunteei|  during  the  War,  to  the  President;  and  if  such  organizations 


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shall  furnish  proper  muster-rolls,  as  now  required,  and  deposit  a  copy 
thereof  with  the  enrolling  officer  of  their  district  (which  shall  be  equiva- 
lent to  enrolment),  they  may  be  accepted  as  minute-men  for  service  in 
such  state,  butin  no  event  to  be  taken  out  of  it.  Those  who  do  not  so  vol- 
unteer and  organize  shall  enroll  themselves  as  before  provided,  and 
may,  by  the  President,  be  required  to  assemble  at  places  of  rendezvous 
and  be  formed  into  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments,  under  regula- 
tions to  be  prescribed  by  him,  and  shall  have  the  right  to  elect  their 
company  and  regimental  officers  ;  and  all  troops  organized  under  this 
act  for  state  defence  shall  be  entitled,  while  in  actual  servige,  to  the 
same  pay  and  allowances  as  troops  now  in  the  Deld. 

Sec.  7.  That  any  person  who  shall  fail  to  attend  at  the  place  of  ren- 
dezvous, as  required  by  the  authority  of  the  President,  without  a  suffi- 
cient excuse,  to  be  judged  of  by  him,  shall  be  liable  to  be  placed  in  ser- 
vice in  the  field  for  the  war  as  if  he  were  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 
and  forty-five  years. 

Sec.  8.  That  hereafter  the  duties  of  provost  and  hospital  guards  and 
clerks,  of  clerks,  guards,  agents,  employees,  or  laborers  in  the  Commis- 
sary and  Quartermaster's  departments,  in  the  Ordnance  department, 
and  clerks  and  employees  of  navy  agents,  as  also  in  the  execution  of 
the  enrolment  acts,  and  all  similar  duties,  shall  be  performed  by  per- 
sons who  are  within  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five  years,  and  who, 
by  the  report  of  a  board  of  army  surgeons,  shall  be  reported  as  unable 
to  perform  active  service  in  the  field,  but  capable  of  performing  some 
of  the  above-named  duties,  specifying  which  ;  and  when  those  persons 
shall  have  been  assigned  to  these  duties  as  far  as  practicable,  the  Presi- 
dent shall  detail  or  assign  to  their  performance  such  bodies  of  troops 
or  individuals,  required  to  be  enrolled  under  the  fifth  section  of  this  act, 
as  may  be  needed  for  the  discharge  of  such  duties  ;  jtrovided,  that  per- 
sons between  the  ages  of  seventeen  and  eighteen  shall  not  be  assigned 
to  these  duties;  provided  further,  that  nothing  contained  in  this  act 
shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  President  from  detailing  arti- 
sans, mechanics,  or  persons  of  scientific  skill,  to  perform  indispensable 
duties  in  the  departments  or  bureaus  herein  mentioned. 

Sec.  9.  That  any  quartermaster  or  assistant  quartermaster,  commis- 
sary or  assistant  commissary  (other  than  those  serving  with  regiments 
and  brigades  in  the  field),  or  officer  in  the  ordnance  bureau,  or  navy 
agent,  or  provost  marshal,  or  officer  in  the  conscript  service,  who  shall 
hereafter  employ  or  retain  in  his  employment  any  person  in  any  of  their 
said  departments  or  bureaus,  or  in  any  of  the  duties  mentioned  in  the 
eighth  section  of  this  act,  in  violation  of  the  provisions  hereof,  shall,  on 
conviction  thereof,  by  a  court-martial  or  military  court,  be  cashiered  ; 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  department  or  district  commander,  upon 


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proof  by  the  oath  of  any  credible  person,  that  any  5nch  officer  has  vio- 
lated this  provision,  immediately  to  relieve  such  officer  from  duty;  and 
said  commander  shall  take  prompt  measures  to  have  him  tri^  for  such 
ofiFence;  and  any  commander  as  aforesaid  failing  to  perform  the  duties 
enjoined  by  this  section,  shall,  upon  being  duly  convicted  thereof,  be 
dismissed  from  the  service. 

Sec.  10.  That  all  lavfs  granting  exemptions  from  military  service  bo 
atfd  the  same  are  hereby  repealed,  and  hereafter  none  shall  be  exempt- 
ed except  the  following  : 

I.  All  who  shall  be  held  unfit  for  military  service,  under  rules  to  bo 
prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

II.  The  Vice-President  nf  the  Confederate  States;  the  members  and 
officers  of  Congress  and  of  the  several  state  legislatures,  and  such  other 
Confederate  and  state  officers  as  the  President  or  the  governors  of  the 
respective  states  may  certify  to  be  nccessarj'  for  the  proper  administra- 
tion of  the  Confederate  or  state  governments,  as  the  case  maj'  be. 

III.  Every  minister  of  religion  authorized  to  preach  according  to  the 
rules  of  his  church,  and  who,  at  the  passage  of  this  act,  shall  be  regu- 
larly ei^loyed  in  the  discharge  of  his  ministerial  duties;  superinten- 
dents and  physicians  of  asyhtms  of  the  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind,  and  of 
the  insane;  one  editor  for  each  newspaper  being  published  at  the  time 
of  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  such  emploj-ecs  as  said  editor  may  certi- 
fy, on  oath,  to  be  indispensable  to  the  publication  of  such  newspaper; 
'the  public  printer  of  the  Confederate  and  state  governments,  and  such 
journeymen  printers  as  the  said  public  printer  shall  certifj-,  on  oath,  to 
be  indispensable  to  perform  the  public  printing  ;  one  skilled  apothecary 
in  each  apothecary  store,  who  was  doing  business  as  such  apothecary 
on  the  tenth  day  of  October,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  has 
continued  said  business,  without  intermission,  since  that  period  ;  all 
physicians  over  the  ago  of  thirty  years,  who  now  arc,  and  for  the  last 
seven  years  have  been,  in  the  actu.al  and  regular  practice  of  their  pro- 
fession— but  the  term  physician  shall  not  include  dentists;  all  presidents 
and  teachers  of  colleges,  theological  seminaries,  academics,  and  schools, 
who  have  been  regularly  engaged  as  such  for  two  years  next  before  tho 
passage  of  this  act;  provided,  that  the  benefit  of  this  exemption  shall 
extend  to  those  teachers  only  whoso  schools  are  composed  of  twenty 
students  or  more;  all  superintendents  of  public  hospitals  established 
by  law  before  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  such  physicians  and  nurses 
therein  as  such  superintendent  shall  certifj',  on  oath,  to  bo  indispensa- 
ble to  the  proper  and  efficient  management  thereof. 

IV.  There  shall  be  exempt  one  person  as  overseer  or  agriculturist  on 
each  farm  or  plantation  upon  which  there  are  now,  and  were,  upon  the 
first  day  of  .January  last,  fifteen  able-bodied  field  hands,  between  the 


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ages  of  sixteen  and  fifty,  upon  the  following  conditions  :  1.  This  ex- 
emption shall  only  be  granted  in  cases  in  which  there  is  no  white  male 
adult  on  the  farm  or  plantation  not  liable  to  military  service,  nor  un- 
less the  person  claiming  the  exemption  was,  on  the  first  day  of  January, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four,  either  the  owner  and  manager  or 
overseer  of  said  plantation  ;  but  in  no  case  shall  more  than  one  person 
bo  exempted  for  one  farm  or  plantation.  2.  Such  person  shall  first  exe- 
cute a  bond,  payable  to  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  in  such 
form,  arid  with  such  security,  and  in  such  penalty,  as  the  Secretary  of 
War  may  prescribe,  conditioned  that  he  will  deliver  to  the  government, 
at  some  railroad  depot,  or  such  other  place  or  places  as  may  be  desig- 
nated by  the  Secretary  of  "War,  within  twelve  months  then  next  ensu- 
ing, one  hundred  pounds  of  bacon,  or,  at  the  election  of  the  government, 
its  equivalent  in  pork,  and  one  hundred  pounds  of  net  beef  (said  beef 
to  be  delivered  on  foot),  for  each  able-bodied  slave  on  the  farm  or  plan- 
tation, within  the  above  said  ages,  whether  said  slaves  be  worked  in  the 
field  or  not ;  which  said  bacon  or  pork  and  beef  shall  be  paid  for  by 
the  government  at  the  prices  fixed  by  the  commissioners  of  the  state 
under  the  Impressment  act;  provided,  that  when  the  person  fnus  ex- 
empted shall  produce  satisfactory  evidence  that  it  has  been  impossible 
for  him,  by  the  exercise  of  proper  diligence,  to  furnish  the  amount  of 
meat  thus  contracted  for,  and  leave  an  adequate  supply  for  the  subsist- 
ence of  those  living  on  said  farm  or  plantation,  the  Secretary  of  War 
shall  direct  a  commutation  of  the  same  to  the  extent  of  two-thirds 
thereof  in  grain  or  other  provisions,  to  bo  delivered  by  such  person  as 
aforesaid,  at  equivalent  rates.  3.  Such  person  shall  further  bind  him- 
self to  sell  the  marketable  surplus  of  provisions  and  grain  now  on  hand, 
and  which  he  may  raise  from  year  to  year,  while  his  exemption  contin- 
ues, to  the  government  or  to  the  families  of  soldiers,  at  prices  fixed  by 
the  commissioners  of  the  state  under  the  Impressment  act;  provided, 
that  any  person,  exempted  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  entitled  to  a  credit  of 
twenty-five  per  cent,  on  any  amount  of  meat  which  he  may  deliver 
within  three  months  from  the  passage  of  this  act;  provided,  further, 
that  persons  coming  within  the  provisions  of  this  exemption  shall  not 
be  deprived  thereof  by  reason  of  having  been  enrolled  since  the  first 
day  of  February,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-four. 

In  addition  to  the  foregoing  exemptions,  the  Secretary  of  War,  under 
the  direction  of  the  President,  may  exempt  or  detail  such  other  persons 
as  he  may  be  satisfied  ought  to  be  exempted  on  account  of  public 
necessity,  and  to  ensure  the  production  of  grain  and  provisions  for  the 
army  and  the  families  of  soldiers.  He  may  also  grant  exemptions  or 
details,  on  such  terms  as  he  may  prescribe,  to  such  overseers,  farmers, 
or  planters  a«  he  may  be  satisfied  will  be  more  useful  to  the  country  in 


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the  pursuits  of  agriculture  than  in  the  military  service  ;  provided,  th>it 
such  exemptions  ,«hall  ceaso  whenever  the  farmer,  planter,  or  overseer 
shall  fail  diligently  to  employ,  in  good  faith,  his  own  skill,  capital,  and 
labor  exclusively  in  the  production  of  grain  and  provisions,  to  be  sold 
to  the  government  and  the  families  of  soldiers  at  prices  not  exceeding 
those  fixed  at  the  time  for  like  articles  by  the  commissioners  of  the 
state  under  the  Impressment  act. 

V.  The  president,  treasurer,  auditor,  and  superintendent  of  any  rail- 
road company  engaged  in  transportation  for  the  government,  and  such 
officers  and  employees  thereof  as  the  president  or  superintendent  shall 
certify,  ou  oath,  to  be  indispensable  to  the  efficient  operation  of  such 
railroad ;  provided,  that  the  number  of  persons  exempted  by  this  act 
on  any  railroad  shall  not  exceed  one  for  each  mile  of  such  road  in. 
actual  use  for  military  transportation,  and  said  exempts  shall  be  re- 
ported by  name  and  description,  with  the  names  of  any  who  may  have 
left  the  employment  of  said  company,  or  who  may  cease  to  be  indis- 
pensable fo  the  efficient  operation  of  its  road,  at  least  once  a  month,  to 
the  Secretary  of  War,  or  such  officer  as  ho  may  designate  for  that  pur- 
pose ;  and  provided,  further,  that  such  president  or  superintendent  shall, 
in  each  such  monthly  report,  certify,  on  oath,  that  no  person  liable  to 
military  service  has  been  employed  by  his  company  since  the  passage  of 
this  act  in  any  position  in  which  it  was  practicable  to  employ  one  not 
liable  to  military  service,  and  capable  of  performing  efficiently  the 
duties  of  such  position.  And  in  cases  where  railroads  have  fallen  into 
the  hands  of  the  enemy,  and  a  portion  of  the  rolling  stock  of  such 
roads  is  being  used  on  other  roads  not  in  the  enemy's  hands,  the  presi- 
dent and  superintendent  of  said  first  named  roads  shall  be  exempt. 

VI.  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  as  repealing 
the  act  approved  April  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three, 
entitled  An  act  to  exempt  contractors  for  carrying  the  mails  of  the 
Confederate  States,  and  the  drivers  of  post-coaches  and  hacks,  from 
military  service  ;  provided,  that  the  exemptions  granted  under  this  act 
shall  only  continue  while  the  persons  exempted  are  actually  ougiged 
in  their  respective  pursuits  or  occupations. 

Sec.  11.  That  the  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  grant 
details,  under  general  rules  and  regulations  to  be  issued  by  the  War 
department,  either  from  persons  between  forty-five  and  fifty  years  of 
age,  or  from  the  army  in  the  field,  in  all  cases  when,  in  his  judgment, 
justice,  equity,  and  necessity  require  such  details,  and  he  may  revoke 
such  orders  of  details  whenever  he  thinks  proper;  provided,  that  the 
power  herein  granted  to  the  President  to  make  details  and  exemptions 
shall  not  be  construed  to  authorize  the  exemption  or  detail  of  any  con- 
tractor  for  furnishing  supplies  of  any  kind  to  the  government,  by 


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reason  of  said  contract,  unless  the  Kead  or  secretary  of  the  department 
making  such  contract  shall  certify  that  the  personal  services  of  said 
contractor  are  indispensable  to  the  execution  of  the  contrnet ;  provided, 
further,  that  when  any  such  contractor  shall  fail  diligently  and  faith- 
fully to  proceed  with  the  execution  of  such  contract,  his  exemption  or 
detail  shall  cease. 

Sec.  12.  That  in  appointing  local  boards  of  surgeons  for  the  exami- 
nation of  persons  liable  to  military  service,  no  member  composing  the 
same  shall  be  appointed  from  the  county  or  enrolling  district  in  which 
they  are  required  to  make  such  examination.  [Approved  February  17, 
1864.] 

I.  .The  superintendence  of  the  measures  necessary  for  the  enrolment, 
examination,  enlistment,  assignment,  detail,  and  exemption  of  all  per- 
sons not  belonging  to  the  army,  in  the  states  east  of  the  Mississippi 
river,  who  are  placed  in  the  military  service  by  the  above  act  of  Con- 
gress, is  devolved  on  the  Bureau  of  Conscription ;  and  all  officers  and 
persons  assigned  or  to  be  employed  in  the  conscription  service,  or  upon 
other  duty  imposed  upon  the  bureau,  will  be  subject  to  its  orders,  and 
their  various  acts  and  decisions  may  be  revised  therein,  under  the 
orders  aiid  instructions  of  the  War  department. 

II.  .The  Bureau  of  Conscription,  under  the  orders  of  the  department, 
will  proceed  to  organize,  in  every  state,  efficient  agencies  for  the  per- 
formance of  the  necessary  duties  imposed  by  this  order.  These  agen- 
cies will  consist  of  a  commandant  of  conscripts  in  each  state,  a  suitable 
number  of  camps  of  instruction,  under  the  charge  of  commanders,  and 
enrolling  officers,  and  drill-masters,  to  be  appointed  or  assigned  under 
acts  of  Congress  or  the  orders  of  the  War  department.  The  Bureau 
of  Conscription  will,  by  instructions  to  these  officers,  designate  the 
duties  that  they  shall  perform,  the  reports  that  they  shall  make,  and 
will  determine  the  effect  of  their  certificates  and  other  official  evidence 
thej  may  be  required  to  give. 

In  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  making  exemptions  and  details, 
the  Bureau  of  Conscription  inay,  from  time  to  time,  organize  within 
the  states  temporary  boards  to  obtain  information  and  advice  relative 
to  the  necessity  or  propriety  of  exemptions  or  details  to  be  granted 
under  the  provisions  of  the  above  act  of  Congress. 

III.  .All  applications  for  exemption  or  detail  under  this  act,  except 
as  hereafter  excepted,  and  except  such  details  as  are  required  fur  the 
service  of  any  of  the  military  bureaus,  or  for  service  in  any  of  the 
departments  of  the  government,  will  bo  made  in  writing  to  the  enrolling 
officer  of  tho  appropriate  county  or  district,  and  be  supported  by  the 


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affidavit  of  the  applicant  and  other  testimony  under  oath.  The  enroll- 
ing officer  will  endorse  his  opinion  on  each  and  every  application,  and 
transmit  it  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for  his  approval,  with  a 
certificate  of  approval.  If  the  enrolling  officer  approve  the  applica- 
tion, he  may  grant  a  certificate  of  exemption  for  a  period  not  exceed- 
ing sixty  days,  which  shall  remain  in  force  for  that  period,  unless 
conutermandeJ  by  the  commandant  of  conscripts.  Every  applicant 
for  exemption  or  detail,  whose  claim  shall  be  refused  by  the  enrolling 
officer  and  commandant  of  conscripts,  will  bo  allowed  an  appeal  to  the 
Bureau  of  Conscription  and  the  War  department.  But  until  the  appli- 
cation has  been  made  to  the  enrolling  officer  and  the  commandant  of 
conscripts,  applications  will  not  bo  entertained  by  the  War  depart- 
ment. 

IV.  .Applications  for  exemptions  to  ensure  the  production  of  provi- 
sions for  the  army  and  families  of  soldiers,  and  for  the  exemption  of 
overseers,  fiirmcrs,  or  planters,  or  because  their  services  will  be  more 
useful  to  the  public  as  agriculturists  than  in  the  military  service,  or  of 
persons  between  the  ages  of  forty-five  and  fifty,  because  justice,  equity, 
or  necessity  require  the  detail,  or  because  their  emploj'ment  is  neces- 
sary to  the  public,  will  be  made  to  the  enrolling  officer  in  writing,  with 
an  affidavit  of  tho  person  making  it,  and  accompanied  with  proof  of 
one  or  more  credible  witnesses.  The  application  should  show  with 
precision  tho  conditions  of  the  alleged  private  or  public  necessity,  ad- 
vantage, convenience,  justice,  or  equity.  Among  tho  facts  to  be  stated 
are  tho  ability  of  the  party  to  produce  tho  provision  or  supply  the 
want  or  requirement,  the  condition  of  the  family,  whether  any  of  the 
members  belong  to  tho  army,  and  whether  some  person  not  liable  to 
military  service  can  not  bo  procured  to  perform  the  service.  If  the 
decision  of  the  local  enrolling  officer  be  favorable,  he  will  transmit  the 
same  to  the  comm.andant  of  conscripts  for  approval,  who  may,  if  he 
approve,  grant  an  exemption  or  detail  for  sixty  days,  and  endorse  his 
action  thereon,  which  will  bo  transmitted  to  tho  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion. The  bureau  will  prepare  special  instructions  to  guide  the  action 
of  those  officers  in  reference  to  this  class  of  cases. 

V.  .Applications  for  certificates  of  exemption  under  the  3d  article, 
10th  section  of  the  act  aforesaid,  and  6th  article  of  the  same  section, 
will  bo  made,  in  all  cases,  to  the  local  enrolling  officer,  and  his  certificate 
must  be  approved  by  the  congressional  district  enrolling  officer.  Ap- 
plications for  exemption  under  the  5th  article  of  the  10th  section, 
relative  to  the  exemption  of  officers  and  agents  employed  on  railroads, 
may  be  made  directly  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  for  the  state, 
who  will  grant  the  certificate  of  exemption  authorized  by  law,  upon 


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compliance  with  the  conditions  contained  in  the  act  of  Congress,  by  the 
ofl5.cers  therein  mentioned. 

VI.. The  attention  of  all  officers  of  the  government,  and  especially 
of  those  belonging  to  the  military  departments  mentioned  therein,  is 
directed  to  the  language  and  purport  of  the  8th  section  of  the  act  of 
Congress  above  recited.  Congress  has  manifested,  in  various  enact- 
ments, the  policy  to  withdraw  from  the  civil  service  all  persons  capable 
of  performing  duty  in  the  field,  and  this  section  of  the  act  is  an  em- 
phatic declaration  of  that  intention,  accompanied  with  a  severe  penalty 
to  be  imposed  upon  the  officer  who  may  frustrate  it.  The  Bureau  of 
Conscription  will  proceed  to  enroll  for  duty  all  persons  who  may  be  so 
employed.  But,  to  prevent  the  inconvenience  and  disorder  that  would 
follow  from  the  instantaneous  execution  of  the  law,  details  may  be 
granted  until  the  10th  day  of  April  next,  for  such  of  those  persons  as 
the  head  of  any  department,  or  the  chief  of  any  bureau,  or  the  princi- 
pal officer  of  the  same  in  any  state,  shall  certify  to  be  necessary  for 
that  time  to  carry  on  the  business  in  which  they  are  employed.  In  the 
meantime,  it  is  made  the  duty  of  the  officers  controlling  this  class  of 
persons  to  substitute,  as  far  as  practicable,  persons  who  are  designated 
in  this  act  as  proper  to  fill  such  employments  for  those  that  are  made 
liable  to  service  by  the  act. 

VII.  .Conscripts  unfit  for  duty  in  the  field,  but  capable  of  perform-^. 
ing  other  duties  named  in  the  8th  section  of  the  act  recited,  will  be 
received  and  recommended  accordingly  by  the  board  of  examiners  for 
conscripts,  who,  in  their  report,  will  state  distinctly  for  what  service, 
or  for  which  department  of  the  army,  such  conscripts  are  best  fitted; 
and  commandants  of  conscripts  will  assign  them  in  accordance  with 
such  recommendation,  or,  failing  to  do  this,  will  report  for  assignment 
through  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  the  chief  or  head  of  the  de- 
partment in  which  they  have  been  recommended  for  service,  the  names 
of  such  conscripts.  All  certificates  of  exemption  for  disability  will  be 
signed  by  the  examining  board,  and  be  approved  by  the  enrolling  offi- 
cer of  the  congressional  district;  and  when  the  certificate  sets  forth 

.  that  the  disability  is  decided  and  permanent,  it  will  exempt  the  party 
from  molestation  by  enrolling  officers,  unless  otherwise  ordered  from 
the  Bureau  of  Conscription. 

VIII.  .The  examining  boards  will  forward  one  copy  of  the  monthly 
report  of  conscripts  examined,  through  the  enrolling  officer  of  the  con- 
gressional district,  to  the  commandant  of  conscripts,  who  will  refer  the 
same,  with  remarks,  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription.  The  boards  will 
ftlso  forward  one  copy  direct  to  the  Surgeon-General. 


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IX.. Medical  olTlcers  and  employed  physleiftns  on  examining  boards 
for  conscripts  will  not  bo  assigned  to  congressional  districts  of  which 
they  are  resident.  The  employed  physicians  will  receive  the  pay  and 
allowances  of  assistant  surgeons. 

X.. Medical  officers  detailed  for  duty  on  examining  boards  for  con- 
Bcripts  will  bo  directed  to  report  for  orders  to  the  commandant  of  con- 
scripts of  states. 

XI.  .Besides  the  ofTicers  of  the  Confederate  and  state  governments 
particularly  named  in  the  act  of  Congress,  the  officers  of  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  Confederate  States  whoso  nominations  have  been  made  by 
the  President  and  confirmed  by  the  Senate,  or  who  have  been  appointed 
by  the  judges  of  the  district  courts,  under  the  authority  confided  by 
any  act  of  Congress,  will  be  exempted  from  military  service  until  fur- 
ther orders.  Also  the  judges  or  justices  of  any  supreme,  superior,  or 
circuit  court  of  any  state;  also  the  judges  of  probate,  clerk  of  any 
court  of  record,  ordinary,  sheriff,  one  tax  collector  in  each  county,  and 
recorder  of  deeds  and  wills,  if  there  be  such  an  officer  existing  by  law, 
and  such  other  officers  of  the  state  provided  by  law  as  the  governor 
shall  certify  to  be  necessary  to  the  proper  administration  of  the  state 
government. 

XII.. AH  persons  who  have  been  exempted  on  account  of  religious 
faith,  under  act  of  Congress  approved  11th  October,  1862,  and  who 
have  paid  the  tax  of  $500  therein  provided  for,  will  be  exempt  from 
enrolment  in  the  military  service. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector-General. 


OKNERATj  orders.")  Adjutant  axd  iNSPECTon-GEynRAL's  Office, 

No.  27.  J  Richmond,  March  2,  1864. 

I.. The  attention  of  the  army  is  called  to  the  second  and  third  sec- 
tions of  the  act  of  Congress  entitled  An  act  to  organize  forces  to  servo 
during  the  war,  approved  February  17,  1864. 

"  Sec  2.  That  all  the  persons  aforesaid,  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 
and  forty-five,  now  in  service,  shall  be  retained  during  the  present  war 
with  the  United  States  in  the  same  regiments,  battalions,  and  com- 
panies to  which  they  belong  at  the  passage  of  this  act,  with  the  same 
organization  and  officers,  unless  regularly  transferred  or  discharged  in 


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accordance  with  the  laws  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the 
army  ,•  provided,  that  companies  from  one  state,  organized  against 
their  consent,  expressed  at  the  time,  with  regiments  or  battalions  from 
another  state,  shall  have  the  privilege  of  being  transferred  to  organi- 
zations of  troops  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service  fiom  the  states  in 
which  said  companies  were  raised;  and  the  soldiers  from  one  state  in 
companies  from  another  state  shall  be  allowed,  if  they  desire  it,  a 
transfer  to  orgnnizations  from  their  own  state  in  the  same  arm  of  the 
service. 

"Sec.  3.  That  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  from  the  first  day  of 
April  next,  a  bounty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  in  a  six  per  centum  gov- 
ernment bond,  which  the  Secretai-y  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  authorized 
to  issue,  shall  be  paid  to  every  non-commissioned  officer,  musician,  and 
private  who  shall  then  be  in  the  service,  or  in  the  event  of  his  death 
previous  to  the  period  of  such  payment,  then  to  the  person  or  persons 
who  would  bo  entitled  by  law  to  receive  the  arrearage  of  his  pay;  but 
no  one  shall  be  entitled  to  the  bounty  herein  provided  who  shall,  at 
any  time  during  the  period  of  six  months  next  after  the  said  first  day 
of  April,  be  absent  from  his  command  without  leave." 

II.  .The  generals  of  departments  will  ascertain  ^t^ether  there  be  in 
their  respective  departments  any  company  or  companies  from  one  state 
associated  with  companies  belonging  to  another  state,  either  in  battal- 
ions or  regiments,  who  were  placed  in  such  organizations  against  their 
consent,  expressed  at  the  time,  and  will  report  the  same  to  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-General  as  soon  as  practicable,  with  a  recommendation 
that  they  be  transferred,  if  they  now  desire  it," to  some  organization  of 
troops  in  the  same  arm  of  the  service  from  the  state  in  which  the  said 
companies  were  raised. 

III.  .Measures  will  be  taken  by  the  commanding  generals  of  depart- 
ments to  place  in  companies  of  the  same  arm  of  the  service  in  which 
they  are  serving,  raised  in  states  to  which  thej'  respectively  belong,  the 
privates  who  arc  serving  in  companies  raised  in  other  states.  This 
privilege  will  be  frcelj'  granted  to  all  privates  making  the  application. 
A  private  will  be  considered  as  belonging  to  that  state  in  which  he  was 
residing  for  twelve  months  prior  to  his  enlistment.  Measures  will  also 
be  taken  to  have  proper  rolls  prepared  on  the  first  of  April  proximo,  or 
as  soon  after  as  practicable,  and  returned  to  the  office  of  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector-General,  so  as  to  secure  to  all  the  persons  designated  in 
the  third  section  of  the  above  recited  act  the  benefits  conferred  by  it. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector-GeneraL 


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GENKRAL  ORDERS,  |^  Adjutant  and  iNSPECToR-QrNERAL's  Officb, 

^°-  28.  j  .  RICUMOXD,  March  4,  1S64. 

I.  .Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  13  (1S64),  is  thus  amended  : 
Oflaccr-i  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  will,  upon  the  requisition 

of  company  commanders,  issue  clothing  directly  to  soldiers,  and  take 
their  individual  receipts  therefor. 

II.  .Paragraph  II,  Geucrnl  Orders,  No.  67  (1863),  is  amended  as  fol- 
lows : 

If  any  cavalryman  "  shall  not  keep  himself  provided  with  a  service- 
able horse,  he  shall  servo  on  foot,"  and  be  transferred  to  any  regiment 
of  infantry  from  the  state  from  which  ho  volunteered  or  was  conscrib- 
ed,  that  the  department  commander  may  order. 

III.  .The  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army  : 

An  act  to  allow  commisHioned  officers  of  the  army  rations  and  the  2}i'lvi- 
lege  of  jmrchasing  clothwg  from  the  Quartermaster' a  dejmrtment. 
"  The  Conijrcts  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  aet,  all  commissioned  ollicers  of  tho 
armies,  while  on  duty  in  tho  field,  or  in  the  n.aval  service,  while  afloat, 
of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  bo  entitled  to  one  ration  in  kind  each, 
in  quantity  and  quality  the  same  as  aro  now  allowed  by  law  to  privates, 
and  shall  draw  and  receive  the  same  under  such  regulations  as  may  bo 
prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

"  Sec.  2.  All  commissioned  officers  of  tlie  Armies  of  the  Confederate 
States  shall  be  allowed  to  purchase  clothing  and  cloth  for  clothing  from 
any  quartermaster  at  the  price  which  it  cost  the  government,  all  ex- 
penses included  ;  2}rorhlcd,  that  no  quartermaster  shall  be  allowed  to 
"sell  to  any  otricer  any  clothing  which  w»uld  be  proper  to  issue  to  pri- 
vates, until  all  privates  entitled  to  receive  tho  same  shall  have  been 
first  supplied ;  provided,  that  the  officer  oft'eriug  to  purchase  shall  givo 
his  certificate  on  honor  that  the  articles  are  necessary  for  his  own  per- 
sonal comfort  and  use,  and  in  no  case  shall  more  than  one  suit  per  an- 
num be  allowed  to  be  so  purchased  hy  an  olllccr ;  provided,  that  no  law 
or  army  regulation  shall  hereafter  be  construed  to  allow  an  otficer  to 
purchase  or  draw  from  subsistence  stores  more  than  one  ration  a  day, 
or  for  less  price  than  tho  cost  thereof,  including  transportation. 

"  Sec.  3.  No  officer  under  tho  rank  of  brigadier-general  shall  hereaf- 
ter bo  entitled  to  forage,  or  commutation  for  forage,  for  more  than  one 
horse,  except  when  on  sorvico  in  the  field.'' 


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IV.. Rations  in  kind,  the  same  in  quality  and  quantity  as  are  now 
allowed  bj'  law  to  privates,  will  be  issued  to  regimental  commissioned 
officers,  while  on  duty  in  the  field,  upon  provision  returns,  approved  by 
the  commanding  oflScer  of  the  regiment,  and  to  general  and  stafif  oflS- 
cers  upon  their  own  certificates. 

V.  .One  ration  a  day  in  kind  may  be  purchased  by  any  officer — not  in 
the  field — who  is  upon  duty  under  orders  from  this  office  or  from  any 
department  commander,  at  cost,  including  transportation. 

VI.  .Officers  retired  in  accordance  with  the  act  to  provide  an  invalid 
corps,  approved  February  17,  1864,  are  not  entitled  to  draw  or  purchase 
rations,  unless  assigned  to  duty  by  orders  under  the  provisions  of  that 
law. 

VII.  .The  Quartermaster-General  will  issue  instructions  to  quarter- 
masters and  assistant  quartermasters  to  carry  into  eifect  section  3  of 
the  above  act,  and  so  much  of  section  2  of  the  same  act  as  relates  to 
his  department. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  aitd  Inspector-Oeneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,"|  Adjutant  and  Inspector-General's  Office, 

No.  29.  j  Richmond,  March  5, 18C4. 

I.. The  following  acts  of  Congress  aro  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army : 

An  act  to  prevent  theprocurhir/,  aiding,  and  assiatintf  of  persona  to  desert 
from  (he  Army  of  the  Cunfe(Ierate  States,  and  for  other  purposes. 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Amet-ica  do  enact,  That 
every  person  not  subject  to  the  rules  and  articles  of  war,  who  shall  pro- 
cure or  entice  a  soldier,  or  person  enrolled  for  service  in  the  Army  of 
the  Confederate  States,  to  desert,  or  who  shall  aid  or  assist  any  deserter 
from  the  army,  or  any  person  enrolled  for  service,  to  evade  their  proper 
commanders,  or  to  prevent  their  arrest,  to  be  returned  to  the  service,  or 
who  shall  knowingly  conceal  or  harbor  any  such  deserter,  or  shall  pur- 
chase from  any  soldier  or  person  enrolled  for  service  any  portion  of 
his  arms,  equipments,  rations,  or  clothing,  or  any  property  belonging 
to  the  Confederate  States,  or  any  oflicer  or  soldier  of  the  Confederate 
States,  shall,  upon  conviction  before  the  district  court  of  the  Coufeder- 


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■ate  States  having  jurisdiction  of  the  offence,  be  fined  not  exceeding  ono 
thousand  dollars,  and  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  two  years."  [Ap- 
proved January  22,  1864.] 

[2.] 
An  act  to  aid  any  state  in  communicatiiiff  with  and  perfecting  records 
concerning  its  troops, 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
upon  the  application  of  the  governor  of  any  of  the  Confederate  States, 
the  Secretary  of  War  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  grant  pass- 
ports and  transportation  lo  an  oflSeor  of  such  state,  duly  commissioned 
according  to  the  law  of  said  state,  to  communicate  with  its  troops  for 
such  purposes,  and  at  such  times  and  places  as  shall  bo  approved  by 
the  Secretary  of  War ;  and  such  officer  shall  be  allowed  to  purchase  for 
himself  supplies  from  the  commissary  stores,  on  the  same  terms  with 
officers  of  similar  rank  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
according  to  the  cogulations  which  govern  them ;  provided  such  sup- 
plies shall  not  exceed  those  which  a  colonel  of  the  Confederate  States 
is  allowed  to  purchase;  jtrovidcd,  that  these  agents  shall  be  charged 
with  the  duty  of  obtaining  from  the  officers  in  command  of  companies 
final  statements  of  deceased  soldiers,  to  be  filed  in  the  Second  Auditor's 
office  to  facilitate  the  settlement  of  such  claims."  [Approved  ]''ebruary 
16,  1864.] 

[3.] 

Ah  act  to  repeal  csrtain  portions  of  the  act  of  May  the  twenty-first,  eigh- 
teen hundred  and  sixty-one,  relalicc  lo  j}risoners  of  war. 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  America  do  enact,  That  so 
much  of  the  act  of  Congress,  passed  Maj'  the  twenty-first,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  as  makes  it  the  duty  of  the  Quartermaster- 
Gencr.al,  under  instructions  issued  by  the  War  department,  to  provide 
for  the  sustenance  of  prisoners  of  war,  is  hereby  repealed,  and  here- 
after that  that  duty  shall  devolve  on  the  Commissary-General  of  Sub- 
sistence, and  be  discharged  by  him,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  the  a,ct 
referred  to."     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[4.] 
An  qct  creating  the  office  of  ensign  in  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
there  shall  be  appointed  by  the  President,  to  each  regiment  of  infantry 
in  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States,  an  officer  to  be  known  as  "  en- 
sign," with  the  rank,  pay,  and  allowances  of  a  first  lieutenant,  whoso 
duty  it  shall  be  to  bear  the  colors  of  the  regiment,  but  without  right  to 
commaud  in  the  field."     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 


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[5.] 

-4/!  act  to  nuthorize  the  promotion  of  officers,  non-eomminsioncd  officers, 
and  privates,  for  clintiiiguished  skill  or  valor, 

"The  Congress  of  the  Cuu/edernte  Slates  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  President  is  hereby  authorized,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
general  commanding  a  department  or  a  separate  army  iu  the  field,  to 
fill  any  vacancy  in  the  commissioned  officers  of  a  regiment  or  battalion 
by  the  promotion  to  the  same,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Senate,  of  any  officer,  non-commissioned  officer,  or  private  who  may 
have  distinguished  himself  by  exhibiting  peculiar  valor  or  skill  on  the 
battle-field ;  ^/-oui'c/efZ,  that  the  officer,  non-commissioned  officer,  or 
private  so  recommended  and  nominated  for  promotion,  shall  belong  to 
the  regiment  or  battalion  in  which  the  vacancy  may  have  occurred. 

"Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  with  the  above  provi- 
sions are  hereby  repealed."     [Approved  February  17,  1S64.] 

[6.] 

An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  An  act  to  provide  and  orf/anize  cnfjincer 
troops  to  serve  during  the  war  {approved  twentieth  March,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-three). 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ant  erica  do  enact,  That 
the  above  recited  jct  be  so  amended  that  there  shall  be  allowed  to  each 
regiment  of  engineer  troops  two  quartermaster  sergeants."  [Approved 
February  17,  18G-1.] 

[7.] 

An  act  to  amend  the  ads  of  April  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixtg-tico, 
and  Septemhei-  iwentg-third,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

"The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  acts  approved  twenty-first  April,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
and  twenty-third  September,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  regulat- 
ing the  increase  .and  rank  of  the  corps  of  engineers  of  the  Provisional 
Army,  be  amended  to  read  as  follows :  That  the  President  be  and  he  is 
hereby  authorized  to  appoint,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Sen- 
ate, an  additional  number  of  officers  in  the  engineer  corps  of  thp  Pro- 
visional Army ;  provided,  that  the  whole  corps  shall  not  exceed  one 
hundred  and  twenty,  and  that  the  number  of  officers  in  each  grade  be 
limited  to  three  colonels,  four  lieutenant-colonels,  eight  majors,  forty- 
five  captains,  thirty-five  first  lieutenants,  and  twenty-five  second 
lieutenants. 

"Sec.  2.  There  may  be  appointed  six  military  store-keepers,  with  the 
pay  and  allowances  of  captains  of  infantry,  who  shall  give  such  bond 


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for  tbe  faithful  performance  of  their  duty  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the 
Secretary  of  War;  provided,  that  the  said  store-keepers  shall  be  ap- 
pointed from  persons  who  are  disqualified  for  active  service  by  rcasou 
of  wounds  received  in  the  military  service,  or  disease  contracted  while 
in  the  army,  or  from  persons  over  forty-five  years  of  age."  [Approved 
February  17,  1804.] 

[S.] 

An  act  to  amend  nn  act  entitled  An  act  to  provide  and  organize  engineer 

troopg  to  serve  during  the  war  {a2}provcd  March  twentieth,  one  thou- 

tand  eight  hundred  and  »ixty-three). 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Statcn  of  America  do  enact,  That  an 
act  to  provide  and  organize  engineer  troops  to  serve  during  the  war 
(approved  twentieth  March,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty- 
three)  be  amended  to  read  as  follows  :  That  there  shall  be  selected,  in 
such  manner  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  direct,  from  each  division  of 
infantry  in  service,  or  from  every  twelve  regiments  when  not  formed 
into  divisions,  one  company  of  engineer  troops,  to  consist  of  one  hun- 
dred men,  chosen  with  a  view  to  their  mechanical  skill  and  physical 
fitness,  and  that  the  men  assigned  to  such  company  shall  be  required 
to  servo  in  the  same  only  during  the  balance  of  their  term  of  service 
respectively.  These  companies  may  be  formed  or  recruited  from  con- 
scripts and  volunteers. 

'•Sec.  2.  That  each  company  shall  consist  of  eight  sergeants,  seven 
corporals,  forty  artificers,  and  forty-five  laborers,  and  that  two  musi- 
cians may  be  added. 

"  Sec.  3.  That  the  commissioned  ofticers  of  each  company  shall  con- 
sist of  one  captain,  one  first  lieutenant,  and  two  second  lieutenants, 
and  that  the  original  vacancies  in  these  companies  shall  be  filled  by 
transfer  of  ofiicers  of  corresponding  grade  from  the  engineer  corps,  if 
practicable,  and  where  not,  then  from  the  other  corps,  or  from  the  line 
or  staff  of  the  army,  reference  being  always  had  to  their  qualification 
as  engineers,  or  by  selection ;  but  no  one  shall  be  selected  who  is  not 
now  serving  in  or  with  the  army,  unless  he  is  a  military  or  civil  engi- 
neer. 

"Sec.  4.  That  the  companies  shall  be  organized  into  regiments  of  ten 
companies  each,  and  that  the  field  and  stafi"ofl5cers  shall  consist  of  ono 
colonel,  one  lieutenant-colonel,  one  major,  one  adjutant  with  the  rank 
of  first  lieutenant,  one  quartermaster  sergeant,  and  one  sergeant-major, 
and  that  the  original  vacancies  in  the  regiments  shall  be  filled  in  the 
manner  provided  for  filling  the  same  in  the  companies  by  the  third 
«e««i'ori  [section]  of  this  act. 

"  Sec.  ."i.  That  in  each  re.ixinipnt  two  of  the  companies  shall  be  as- 


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signed  to  duty  as  pontoniers,  and  each  be  furnished  with  a  bridge  train 
complete. 

"  Sec.  6.  That  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  Engineer  bureau,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  "War,  shall  prescribe  the  number,  form, 
and  dimensions  of  the  wagons,  pontoons,  trestles,  tools,  implements, 
arms,  and  other  necessaries  for  all  the  troops  organized  by  this  act. 

"  Sec.  7.  That  vacancies  in  the  established  regiments,  to  and  including 
the  rank  of  captain,  shall  be  filled  by  promotion,  regimcntally,  accord- 
ing to  seniority,  except  in  case  of  disability  or  other  incompetency. 
The  field-officers  shall  be  appointed  by  selection  from  the  captains  of 
the  regiments  or  battalions,  except  in  the  case  of  original  appointment, 
or  vacancy  caused  by  promotion  to  original  vacancy  of  higher  rank. 

"  Sec.  8.  That  the  monthly  pay  of  the  engineer  troops  shall  be  as  fol- 
lows :  Of  a  colonel,  two  hundred  and  ten  dollars  ;  of  a  lieutenant-colo- 
nel, one  hundred  and  eighty-five  dollars  ;  of  a  major,  one  hundred  and 
sixty-two  dollars  ;  of  a  captain,  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  ;  of  a. 
first  lieutenant,  one  hundred  dollars,-  of  a  second  lieutenant,  ninety 
dollars;  and  the  adjutant  shall  receive  ten  dollars  per  month  in  addi- 
tion to  his  pay  as  lieutenant. 

"  Sec  9.  That  the  pay  of  the  enlisted  men  per  month  shall  be  as  fol- 
lows :  The  sergeant-major  and  quartermaster  sergeant,  each  thirty-four 
dollars;  sergeants,  thirty-four  dollars;  corporals,  tAventy  dollars;  artifi- 
cers, seventeen  dollars  ;  laborers  an  A  musicians,  thirteen  dollars. 

"  Sec.  10.  The  mounted  engineer  troops  may  be  selected  from  the 
cavalry,  and  be  organized  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  for 
engineer  troops,  as  hereinbefore  specified. 

"  Sec.  11.  Officers  of  the  engineer  corps,  and  of  the  engineer  troops  of 
the  Provisional  Army  of  equal  rank,  may,  with  mutual  consent,  be 
transferred;  provided  the  relative  rank  of  no  officer  of  either  corps  be 
prejudiced  thereby."     [Approved  February  17,  1864.] 

[9.] 
An  act  to  amend  the  sixty-Ji/th  Article  of  War. 

"  The  Go>igres8  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  sixty-fifth  Article  of  War  be  so  amended  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

"^Article  65.  Any  general  officer  commanding  an  army,  or  com- 
manding a  force  of  cavalry  not  with  and  under  the  immediate  command 
of  the  commander  of  an  army,  or  other  officer  commanding  a  separate 
department,  may  appoint  general  courts-martial  whenever  necessary. 
But  no  sentence  of  a  court-martial  shall  be  earj-ied  into  execution  until 
after  the  whole  proceedings  shall  have  been  laid  before  the  officer  order- 
ing the  same,  or  the  officer  commanding  the  troop?  for  the  time  being  ; 


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neither  shall  any  sentence  of  a  general  court-martial  in  time  of  peace,  ex- 
tending to  the  loss  of  life,  or  the  dismission  of  a  commissioncJ  oDiccr,  or 
which  shall,  either  in  time  of  peace  or  war,  respect  a  geueral  officer,  be 
carried  into  execution  until  after  the  whole  proceedings  shall  have  been 
transmitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  before  the  President  of 
the  Confederate  States  for  his  confirmation  or  disapproval  and  orders 
in  the  case.  All  other  sentences  may  be  confirmed  and  executed  by 
the  oDScer  ordering  the  court  to  assemble,  or  the  commanding  officer 
for  the  time  being,  as  the  case  may  be."     [Approved  February  1 7, 1864,] 

[10.] 
A»  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  An  act  to  uryanize  military  courts  to  at- 
tend the.  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  and  to  define  the 
jyowers  of  said  courts. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  act  entitled  An  act  to  organize  military  courts  to  attend  the  Army  of 
the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  and  to  define  the  powers  of  said 
courts,  be  so  amended  as  to  authorize  the  President  to  establish  one  in 
North  Alabama,  which  shall  sit  at  such  times  and  places  as  said  court 
may  direct,  and  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  jurisdiction  given  to  said 
militarj'  courts  by  said  act ;  but  the  judges  thereof  shall  give  ten  days' 
notice  of  tho  times  and  places  of  holding  said  courts,  before  the  same 
are  held ;  provided,  however,  that  said  court  shall  cease  to  exist  after 
one  year  from  the  passage  of  this  act,  unless  longer  continued  by  Con- 
gress."    [Approved  February  13,  1864.] 

[11.] 
An  act  to  anthorize  the  President  to  eslahlish  additional  military  courts, 
"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
I  in  addition  to  tho  military  courts  now  authorized  by  law,  the  President 
be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  a  military  court  to  attend 
any  division  of  cavalry  in  the  field,  and  also  one  for  each  state  within  a 
military  department,  whenever,  in  hi.s  judgment,  such  courts  would 
promote  the  public  interest;  which  courts  shall  be  organized,  and  have 
the  same  powers  and  duties,  and  tho  members  thereof  appointed,  as 
provided  by  law."     [Approved  February  16,  1864.] 

[12.] 
An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  An  act  to  organize  military  courts  to  at- 
tend  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  and  to  define  the 
powers  of  said  courts  {ajjjjroced  October  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-tico). 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  enact,  That 
w* 


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when  two  or  more  army  corps  are  united  in  the  same  army,  charges 
shaU  be  referred  to  said  courts,  and  their  proceedings  be  subject  to  re- 
view by  the  army  commander,  as  in  the  ctise  of  general  courts-martial; 
and  that  the  jurisdiction  of  each  of  said  courts  shall  extend  to  any 
person  connected  with  the  army  of  which  the  court  is  attached  may  be 
a  part,  without  being  liaiited  to  members  of  the  particular  corps  to 
which  Said  court  may  be  attached. 

"Sec.  2.  That  when  the  corps  to  which  any  military  court  maybe 
attached  shall,  from  any  cause,  cease  to  exist  as  such,  the  Secretary  of 
War  shall  assign  the  members  and  officers  of  such  court  to  anj  other 
unsupplied  corps,  or  other  subdivision  of  any  of  the  Armies  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  where  a  military  court  may  be  needed;  and  exchanges 
and  transfers  of  individual  members  and  officers  from  any  one  court  to 
another  may  be  made  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  on  application  of  the 
parties  concerned — the  consent  of  the  commander  or  commanders  of 
the  army  or  armies  to  which  the  particular  courts  may  belong,  having 
been  first  obtained  to  such  exchange  or  transfer. 

"  Sec.  3.  That  the  fourth  section  of  the  act  of  which  this  is  amenda- 
tory, be  and  the  same  is  hereby  so  amended,  as  to  extend  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  military  courts  to  all  offenders  below  the  grade  of  lieuten- 
ant-general."    [Approved  February  17,  186t.] 

[13.] 

All  act  to  confer  additional  powers  upon  courts-martial   and  miiitai-y 

courts. 

"  The  Conr/ress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
any  military  court  or  court-martial,  convened  within  the  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States,  shall  have  power  to  summon  as  a  witness  before  it 
any  citizen  of  the  state  in  which  said  court  may  at  the  time  hold  its 
session;  and  any  citizen  disobeying  such  summons — upon  information 
given  thereof  by  the  judge  advocate  of  said  military  court  or  court- 
martial  to  the  judge  of  the  district  court  of  the  Confederate  States  for 
the  district  in  which  said  citizen  may  reside — shall  be  subject  to  the 
same  penalties  as  for  disobedience  of  an  order  of  said  district  court; 
or,  on  application  of  the  judge  advocate,  such  citizen  witness  may,  by 
military  force,  be  arrested  and  brought  before  said  military  court  or 
court-martial,  by  order  of  the  commander  of  the  army,  and  may  bo 
held  in  close  confinement  until  he  or  she  shall  consent  to  testify. 

'•'  Sec.  2.  That  any  citizen  witness  appearing,  upon  being  summoned 
as  provided  in  this  act,  shall  be  paid  such  reasonable  amount  for  his  or 
her  attendance  as  the  commander  of  the  army  shall  deem  reasonable, 
which  payment  shall  be  made  by  any  paymaster,  upon  the  certificate 
of  said  commander,  specifying  the  amount."  [Approved  February  17, 
1864.] 


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[14.] 

An  ar.l  to  niithorue  commandem  of  corps  and  departments  to  detail  field- 
officers  as  membcm  of  military  courti,  under  certain  circnmMances. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  enact,  That 
commanders  of  corps  and  dopurtments  bo  and  they  are  hereby  aiithor- 
izeil  to  detail  fitld-oHioers  as  members  of  military  courts,  whenever  any 
of  the  judges  of  said  courts  shall  bo  disqualified,  by  cousanguiuity  or 
affinity,  or  unable,  from  sickness  or  other  unavoidable  cau.-c,  to  attend 
said  courts."     [Approved  February  G,  ISfil.] 

[15] 

An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  An  net  to  j)unish  drunkenness  in  the  army 
[approved  April  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two). 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  enact,  That 
the  jurisdiction  conferred  upon  courts  of  inquiry,  in  the  act  above  re- 
cited, is  hereby  repealed,  and  the  said  jurisdiction  is  hcrcbj'  conferred, 
for  the  punishment  of  the  offence  therein  named,  upon  the  military 
courts  and  general  courts-martial  convened  in  the  Armj'  of  the  Con- 
federate States  ;  and  the  proceedings  therein  shall  be  subject  to  review, 
as  in  other  cases. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  any  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States  is  hereby  author- 
ized to  make  report  of  any  violation  of  the  provision  of  the  act  to 
which  this  is  an  amendment,  in  the  same  manner  as  officers  of  the 
army  are  now  required  to  do. 

"  Sec.  3.  Upon  any  trial  for  drunkenness  it  shall  be  lawful  to  prove, 
without  special  charge,  that  the  accused  is  of  intemperate  habits  ;  and 
if  the  court  shall  find  that  he  is  of  such  habits,  he  shall  be  cashiered,  or 
otherwise  punished,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court."  [Approved  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1864.] 

[16.] 

An  act  to  authorize  the  organization  of  auxiliary  bureaus  of  the  War  de- 
partment  west  of  the  Mississippi  river, 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That, 
under  the  direction  of  the  President,  such  bureaus  or  agencies  of  the 
War  department  may  be  organized  west  of  the  Mississippi  river  as  the 
public  sei'vice  may  require,  which  shall  be  auxiliary  to  the  similar  bu- 
reaus of  said  department  established  by  law,  and  shall  perform  such 
duties  as  may  be  directed  by  iiistrnctions  from  the  Secretary  of  War, 
or  the  general  commanding  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  department,  acting 
under  the  authority  of  the  War  department. 


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"  Sec.  2.  Such  staff  officers  and  clerks  may  bo  assigned  to  duty,  or 
appointed  by  the  President,  in  these  bureaus,  as  may  be  necessary  for 
the  service;  and,  under  authority  from  the  President,  the  general  com- 
manding in  the  Trans-Mississippi  department  may  assign  such  officers 
to  duty  or  malte  appointments  therein,  sulijcct  to  the  approval  of  the 
President,-  jjronded,  that  no  clerk  employed  under  this  act  shall  be  al- 
lowed a  salary  exceeding  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  or  be  liable 
to  military  duty."     [Approved  February  17,  1861.] 

[17.] 

An  act  aalhorizing  chaplains,  in  certain  cafes,  to  draw  forage  fur  one 
home.  ■ 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
chaplains  in  the  army  in  actual  service  in  the  field  shall  be  entitled  to 
draw  forage  for  one  horse;  provided  the  chaplain  has  a  horse  in  his 
use."     [Approved  January  22,  1864.]    ^ 

[18.] 

An  act  relating  to  the  appointment  of  a  general  and  lieutenant-generals. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Covfederatc  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  President  may  appoint  one  general  in  the  Provisional  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States  when,  in  his  discretion,  it  shall  be  deemed  necessa- 
ry and  proper,  for  the  command  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  military  de- 
partment, by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate. 

"Sec.  2.  That  the  President  may,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  Senate,  appoint  lieutenant-generals  in  the  Provisional  Army 
of  the  Confederate  States  when,  in  his  discretion,  it  shall  be  deemed 
necessary,  for  the  command  of  any  one  of  the  military  departments. 

"  Sec.  3.  .That  the  officers  appointed  under  the  provisions  of  this  act 
shall  continue  to  hold  the  rank  herein  provided,  so  long  as  they  shall 
efficiently  discharge  the  duties  in  command  of  said  several  depart- 
ments, and  no  longer,  but  will  resume  thereafter  their  former  rank  in 
the  service."     [Approved  February  17,  18G4.] 

[19.] 

A  hill  to  repeal  an  act    to  organize  bands  of  /):(/7/»f()i  rangers  {approved 
April  tiaeatij-onc,  eighteen    hundred  and  sixty-two),  and  for  other  pur- 

2J0SCH. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  act  of  Congress  aforesaid  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed  ;  pro- 
vided, that  organizations  of  partisan  rangers,  acting  as  regular  cavalry 


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at  the  passage  of  this  act,  shall  be  continued  in  their  present  organiza- 
tion ;  provided  they  shall  hereafter  be  considered  as  regular  cavalry, 
and  not  as  partisan  rangers. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  all  the  bands  of  partisan  rangers  organized  under  the 
said  act  may,  as  the  interests  of  the  service  allow,  bo  united  with  other 
organizations,  or  be  organized  into  battalions  and  regiments,  with  the 
view  to  bringing  them  under  the  general  conditions  of  the  Provisional 
Army  as  to  discipline,  control,  and  movements,  under  such  regulations 
as  the  Secretary  of  A7ar  m'ay  prescribe. 

"Sec.  3.  The  Secretary  of  War  shall  be  authorized,  if  he  deems  prop- 
er, for  a  time  or  permanently,  to  except  from  the  operation  of  this  act 
such  companies  as  are  serving  within  the  lines  of  the  enemy,  and  under 
such  conditions  as  he  may  prescribe."     [Approved  February  17,  1SC4.] 
0  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutftnt  and  Inspector-General. 


GENERAL  OKDERS,:|  Awcta.m  and  IxsPECTOR-GKNEnAL-s  OrncE, 

^'"-  ^"^  >  RlCii>U)ND.  March  7, 18C4. 

I..  .The  following  act  of  Congress  concerning  impressments,  and  the 
instructions  of  the  War  department  respecting  it,  are  published  for  the 
information  and  direction  of  ail  concerned  : 

An  act  to  amend  an  act  to  regulate  impressments  (ap2)rovcd  March  twenty 
sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and  si.cty-threc),  and  to  repeal  an  act  amendatory 
thereof  (approved  April  twenty. seventh,  ci,jhteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
three). 

The  Cowjress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  in 
all  cases  where  property  is  impressed  for  the  use  of  the  army  and  navy, 
or  for  other  public  use,  under  said  act,  the  same  shall  be  paid  for  at  the 
time  of  said  impressment,  unless  an  appeal  shall  bo  taken  from  said 
valuation,  as  hereinafter  provided,  according  to  the  valuation  agreed 
upon  between  the  parties,  or  ascertained  by  loyal  and  disinterested 
citizens  of  the  city,  county,  or  parish  in  which  the  impressment  may  be 
made,  in  the  manner  and  according  to  the  regulations  provided  in  the 
first,  second,  and  third  sections  of  the  above  recited  act,  or  in  the  eighth 
section  thereof,  where  it  is  api>licable. 

Skc  2.  Whenever  the  odicer  making  the  impressment  of  property, 
under  the  act  hereby  amended,  shall  believe  that  the  appraisement  is 
fiiir  and  just,  he  shall  endorse  his  npproval  upon  fho  appraisement,  and 


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make  payment  accordingly  ;  but  if  he  shall  believe  that  it  is  not  fair  and 
just,  then  he  shall  refuse  to  approve,  and  endorse  the  reasons  of  his  re- 
fusal on  the  certificate,  and  shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  from  the 
decision  of  the  appraisers,  by  reporting  the  case  to  the  commissioners 
appointed  under  said  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  for  their 
decision,  whose  judgment  shall  be  final;  and  in  the  meantime  the 
property  shall  be  held  and  appropriated  by  the  officer  impressing  the 
same,  who  shall  give  a  receipt  therefor  to  the  owner,  who  shall  also  have 
the  right  of  appeal  as  herein  provided. 

Sec.  3.  The  said  commissioners  shall  have  power  to  summon  a'nd  ex- 
amine witnesses  to  enable  them  to  fix  the  value  of  property  impressed, 
which  shall  be  a  just  compensation  for  property  so  impressed,  at  the 
time  and  place  of  impressment;  and  when  the  commissioners  shall  have 
fixed  the  value  of  property  in  cases  of  appeal,  they  shall  fur^j^ish  the 
owner  and  impressing  officer  with  a  statement  of  such  value,  which 
valuation  by  the  commissioners  shall  be  within  three  months  from  the 
time  of  impressment. 

Sec.  4.  That  said  commissioner's  shall  be  sworn  faithfully  to  discharge 
all  their  duties  under  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amend- 
ment. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  tenth  section  of  the  act  of  which  this  is  an  amend- 
ment be  stricken  out,  and  the  following  inserted  instead  thereof: 

"No  slave  laboring  on  a  farm  or  plantation  exclusively  devoted  to 
the  production  of  grain  or  provisions,  shall  be  taken  for  public  use 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner,  except  in  case  of  urgent  necessity, 
and  upon  the  order  of  the  general  commanding  the  department  in 
which  said  farm  or  plantation  is  situated." 

Sec-  6.  That  the  act  amendatory  of  the  above  recited  act  (approved 
April  twenty-seventh,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three),  and  so  much 
of  the  first  section  of  said  act  as  requires  an  affidavit  to  be  made  by  the 
owner,  or  his  agent,  that  such  property  was  grown,  raised,  or  produced 
by  said  owner,  or  held,  or  has  been  purchased  by  him,  not  for  sale  or 
speculation,  but  for  his  own  use  or  consumption,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  7.  That  no  impressment  shall  be  made  under  this  act,  or  the  act 
to  which  this  is  amendatory,  for  the  use  or  benefit  of  contractors  with 
the  government. 

Sec.  8.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  authorize  tho 
impressing  officer  to  enter  an  appeal  from  any  decision  of  the  local 
appraisers,  under  the  seventh  section  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  amend- 
atory.    [Approved  February  16,  1864.] 

II.  .Impressments  according  to  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which  this  is 


an  nmerxlmcnt,  inny  be  mado  for  necessary  supplies  for  the  Confederate 
armies  in  the  field,  and  for  their  accumulation  in  magazines  and  at 
posts  .and  depot?,  and  to  carry  on  tlie  v.arious  operations  of  the  military 
bureaus  connected  with  the  War  department,  whenever  the  same  can 
not  be  obtained  by  contract. 

Iir.  .Thcj  mr.}'  be  made  under  orders  from  the  generals  command- 
ing armies,  departments,  corps,  divisions,  and  by  commanders  of 
detached  parties,  when  a  necessity  arises  therefor.  These  orders  may 
be  executed  by  appropriate  officers  of  the  staff  belonging  to  the  arm}'. 
The  chiefs  of  the  various  bureaus  will  designate  the  ofiSeers  and  persons 
who  shall  be  competent  to  make  impressments  under  the  authority  con- 
ferred upon  them. 

-  IV. .  Before  any  impressment  shall  be  made,  the  impressing  officer  or 
his  agent  will  make  an  offer  to  the  owner,  his  bailee,  or  agent,  in  writ- 
ing, for  the  purchase  of  the  property,  describing  the  property  he  wishes 
to  purchase,  the  price  he  is  willing  to  pay,  and  the  mode  of  payment, 
and  stating  that,  upon  a  refusal  to  accept  the  same,  compensation  will 
be  made  according  to  the  acts  of  Congress  for  the  regulation  of  im- 
pressirrents.  This  notice  will  be  considered  as  binding  the  property  un- 
til the  completion  of  the  negotiation  for  the  sale  and  transfer  of  the 
same  to  the  impressing  officer.  The  property  will  remain  in  the  custo- 
dy of  the  owner  and  at  his  risk  during  the  pending  of  these  proceed- 
ings unless  a  delivery  of  the  same  be  thereupon  made  to  the  impress- 
ing officer,  with  his  consent.  In  case  of  a  change  of  possc.-sion  under 
these  circumstances,  the  Confederate  Slates  will  be  regarded  as  the 
owner,  and  the  property  held  for  its  use  and  at  its  risk. 

v.  .In  all  cases  in  which  the  offer  of  an  impressing  officer  is  refused, 
he  will  proceed  to  adjust  the  price  according  to  the  first  section  of  the 
act  aboTe  recited  ;  that  is,  by  the  judgment  of  two  loyal  and  disinter- 
ested persons  of  the  city,  county,  or  parish  in  which  the  impressment 
may  be  made — one  to  be  selected  by  the  owner,  his  bailee,  or  agent,  and 
one  by  the  impressing  officer.  In  the  event  of  their  disagreement,  these 
two  will  select  an  umpire  of  like  qualification.  The  persons  thus  select- 
ed will  proceed  to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so  impress- 
ed, whether  the  absolute  ownership  or  the  tempor.xry  use  thereof  be  re- 
quired. If  the  impressing  officer  believes  that  the  appraisement  is  fair 
and  just,  ho  will  endorse  his  approval  and  pay  for  the  property',  and 
the  right  in  the  object  impressed  will  become  the  property  of  the  Con- 
federate States.  But  if  be  does  not  approve  of  the  appraisement,  ho 
will  decline  to  approve  it,  and  endorse  the  reasons  for  his  refus.al  on  the 
certificate,  and  forthwith  report  the  case  to  the  commissioners  appoint- 


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ed  under  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  to  which  the  act  above  recited  is 
an  amendment;  and  in  the  meantime  the  property  will  be  taken,  and  a 
receipt,  describing  the  property  and  the  proceedings  for  the  adjust- 
ment of  the  price  and  the  appeal,  given  to  the  owner.  The  impressing 
officer  will  immediately  report  the  case  to  the  appraisers,  with  a  state- 
ment of  the  quality  and  condition  of  the  property,  and  his  opinion  upon 
the  subject. 

VI.. No  officer  or  agent  will  impress  the  necessary  supplies  which 
any  person  may  have  for  the  consumption  of  himself,  his  family,  em- 
ployees, or  slaves,  or  to  carry  on  his  ordinary  mechanical,  manufactur- 
ing, or  agricultural  employments. 

If  any  question  arise  as  to  the  fact  whether  the  supplies  are  necessa- 
ry, or  whether  there  be  a  sui'plus,  it  will  be  determined  by  appraisers 
mutually  selected,  according  to  the  preceding  section ;  and  in  this  case 
the  decision  of  the  appraisers  will  be  binding  on  the  officer,  who  will 
not  be  allowed  an  appeal  therefrom. 

VII.  .These  regulations  are  published  as  a  substitute  for  the  regula- 
tions contained  in  General  Orders,  Nos.  37  and  161,  series  of  1863. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Insj)ector-General. 


